Retail Watchers

I always wondered why this perpetually money-losing grocer kept expanding.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/ ... uptcy.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... bankruptcy

storewanderer wrote: ↑February 16th, 2018, 11:32 pm Here's Albertsons chance to expand in Florida.

That was my first thought as well. Lone Star has to be eyeing the exit door. They've probably extracted as much value as they can from the operation. You have to wonder how viable even a slimmed-down SEG would be as a standalone entity.

If grocers want to compete in the delivery space, they have three alternatives: outsource to Instacart or some similar third party, buy an existing delivery service, or build their own delivery infrastructure from the ground up. All of the alternatives have their own advantages and disadvantages.

They say they'll take the learnings from their small-format stores and adopt them in their mainstream formats
http://www.supermarketnews.com/news/aho ... t-strategy

According to the leasing plan for The Shops at Biddeford Crossing, part of the former Lowe's (19,748 sq. ft.) wasn't used for Market Basket
http://www.rmd-inc.net/wp-content/uploa ... asing1.pdf

the original one is in a 107,000 Square Foot Lowe's building, and the new one is planned to be an 80,000 Square Foot store. I'm surprised they went with their 80K format here instead of their 100K-plus version. As busy as the Biddeford store is, they must not be doing enough volume to justify it. E...

pseudo3d wrote: ↑November 17th, 2017, 9:32 am Uh...I think you posted the wrong headline there.

Corrected!

They'll be replacing a planned Walmart Supercenter in a Westbrook, Maine plaza that's still in development stage
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/11/16/m ... westbrook/

An interesting tidbit in their quarterly blurb

http://www.supermarketnews.com/ahold-de ... haize-s-q3