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Bluelightspecial wrote: ↑April 4th, 2024, 8:00 pm https://ktla.com/news/local-news/99-cen ... ll-stores/

Can anyone else confirm this? Seems like a big deal

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HCal wrote: ↑April 4th, 2024, 5:44 pm Yet another victim of a greedy leveraged buyout.

Pretty difficult to call it "99 Cents Only" when inflation takes hold.

Looking at Shoppers (short of them announcing that they'd sell off large chunks of the remaining chain) would not be a good way to judge UNFI's plans. It would be Cub Foods. If they suddenly announced that they'd do away with the Cub Foods franchise program that'd be a sign that they're going to ma...

ClownLoach wrote: ↑April 4th, 2024, 2:08 pm Saw this social media ad and wondered if it was still April Fool's Day. Why would they think businesses would pay inflated retail?

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It appears to be real and only for Vons...

I don't know this area at all. Is this an area Safeway would want these stores in? Looks like they're not in that area, and they bought two Shoppers stores a couple years ago. But those were both in the Baltimore/DC area and that's quite a distance away, and I don't know that Safeway would want mor...

The weather is probably also a factor. There is higher demand for indoor malls in places where it is too cold to walk around outdoors for a portion of the year. That was always supposed to be the saving grace of malls, but it doesn't work that way----look at all the dead enclosed malls we have rega...

Looks like three out of the four Shoppers opened within the past year are already closing ; all within St. Mary's County. I wonder what is happening here. Is the local McKay's chain Shoppers superseded returning? Too much investment and too little profit in return? That is interesting because it mi...

I also think the dirty secret as to why it works so well in those environments is because of the pricing model. If someone grabs a Coors Light and the system accidentally rings up a regular Coors, who cares? The pricing is the same for a beer, a candy bar, etc. This seems to be the perfect solution...

I do wonder would it have worked out differently if Haggen had warehouses, or would it have been the same end result? One of the things I remember reading about Haggen is that they were much more expensive than the Albertsons/Safeway stores they replaced, and the perishable departments were not the...

As far as new to the market goes, Tractor Supply Co. took over Orscheln, but had to divest half of the stores. As a result, Bomgaars is now operating stores in new markets far away from its old home base in the midwest.

It remains to be seen if they do well.