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- May 24th, 2016, 12:00 pm
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: First 365 by Whole Foods opens Wednesday
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11500
Re: First 365 by Whole Foods opens Wednesday
That looks like a Marina Safeway or a remodel that just looks like a Marina style storefront. Whole Foods is very careful about planning their stores. When a Whole Foods opens, their stores are packed with rich people who can spend. These new stores will try to be like Trader Joe's stores. It is un...
- May 22nd, 2016, 8:35 pm
- Forum: Northwest, Rockies, & Alaska USA
- Topic: Acquisition and Integration of Haggen into Albertsons
- Replies: 131
- Views: 50809
Re: Acquisition and Integration of Haggen into Albertsons
I am thinking that the sale has not closed yet. I suspect that Albertsons is waiting until the properties with the closed stores have been sold. Perhaps Albertsons wants nothing to do with shedding those properties? Speaking of Haggen, I heard the first Haggen radio that I've heard in years! I was ...
- May 22nd, 2016, 9:21 am
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: Ralphs new strategy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5882
Re: Ralphs new strategy
Ranch 99 doesn't seem to run real clean stores, but they are high foot traffic and with the heavy amount of seafood being sold I think that leads to some cleanliness issues. I have found Seafood City seems to run cleaner stores despite having even more seafood so I am not sure what they are doing d...
- May 19th, 2016, 11:01 pm
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: Integration of Albertsons and Safeway
- Replies: 711
- Views: 273047
Re: Integration of Albertsons and Safeway
I saw similar lighting "enhancements" at the Windmill store in Henderson, Nevada, this week. Just like in your pictures, they had bolted bare fluorescent strips on to the end of the Lifestyle lights at some places, had added a row of fluorescent strips across the rear perimeter, had added...
- May 18th, 2016, 9:29 am
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: Ralphs Arcadia Closing, Asian market to take place?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11955
Re: Ralphs Arcadia Closing, Asian market to take place?
... I guess I am biased to large format supermarkets. I had hoped that the european hypermarket format would have become extremely popular (it did not). As a shopper, I'm one of the "one stop shop" type. I need to get everything I want in one place with room to buy and a fast check out. T...
- May 17th, 2016, 5:49 pm
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: Ralphs Arcadia Closing, Asian market to take place?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11955
Re: Ralphs Arcadia Closing, Asian market to take place?
...But sadly, I think the trend in California has been moving away from those large footprints. I am a huge fan of the super big palace size stores and wish they would come back! You might get your wish. Kroger acquired Roundy's, which owned Mariano's. Built-from-the-ground-up Mariano's are huge. T...
- May 16th, 2016, 8:59 pm
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: Ralphs Arcadia Closing, Asian market to take place?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11955
Re: Ralphs Arcadia Closing, Asian market to take place?
But you'd never know they were in trouble by looking at a lot of their stores which are really good operations and high volume. That's because they're not in trouble. They've been letting go of marginal stores as their leases come up. That's all there is to it. Ralphs is in very good shape and has ...
- May 15th, 2016, 11:45 am
- Forum: Midwest & Plains USA
- Topic: Kroger to buy Roundy's for $800 million
- Replies: 112
- Views: 59590
Re: Kroger to buy Roundy's for $800 million
Apologies for arriving so late to the party. I somehow missed this thread when it started. That said... I grew up and lived in Chicago until 2000 when I moved to Southern California. When I lived there I was a Jewel shopper. Virtually every shopping trip to Dominick's resulted in returning something...
- April 23rd, 2016, 9:10 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Macy's closing 36 stores
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13915
Re: Macy's closing 36 stores
Honestly, I think part of the problem is the events that transpired about 10 years ago when they converted all those department store names to Macy's and generally downscaled them. Sears and Penney's at least have the benefit of being legacy names and at one time really meant something. Not so much...
- April 20th, 2016, 8:30 pm
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Co's Bring a Taste of Spain
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9584
Re: Kroger Co's Bring a Taste of Spain
The Mission Valley Ralphs has the promotion going, but like others have mentioned it is pretty poorly executed. There is a cardboard kiosk near the Starbucks that announces the promo. The other Spanish items are strewn throughout the store but the only thing linking it to the promo is a sign reading...