Retail Watchers

Publix is speculated to expand into the District of Columbia in the Washington Business Journal article "Publix making first push into Greater Washington."

Publix is already seeking sites in northern Virginia.

I read somewhere that this could also be an opportunity for Publix to expand in Richmond. I think they are already building one store there from ground up. I'm surprised they're dumping Martin's. I would have thought they would try to dump the Food Lion stores in that market instead. The store at N...

pseudo3d wrote: Very few supermarkets operate their own milk plants.

Ingle's and Kroger subsidiary Harris Teeter own and operate their milk plants in North Carolina.

Food Lion Stores are low volume garbage. I assume they will be sold cheaply and almost any other banner on the front of the store would cause significant customer count increases. Most Food Lion stores would likely close rather than be divested. Food Lion has too many shortcomings in its stores (i....

Acquiring The Fresh Market would have moved Kroger into the specialty gourmet grocer segment. As another entity is acquiring The Fresh Market, it remains to be seen if Kroger has interest for additional acquisitions.

While Safeway and Albertsons are relatively similar stores (mid-line, full-line supermarkets), most of Delhaize's U.S. holdings contain Food Lion, a discount-oriented supermarket that are rarely more than 35k square feet, while Ahold's have the more traditional supermarkets in the Northeast (40k-60...

How many stores approximately does the Fry's division have?

I have seen Sports Authority struggle against and fall to Dick's Sporting Goods and Academy Sports and Outdoors in South Carolina. It was the only store I bought hockey sticks from. Academy Sports and Outdoors, having locations mostly in the southern and southeastern United States, is a sporting goo...

Would TopCo and Top Care brands be exclusively distributed by C&S Wholesale Grocers?

pseudo3d wrote: Even in college towns or high-volume locations?

Regardless of their locations or their consistently high volumes, all Publix stores are not open 24 hours.