Retail Watchers

Save Mart did 3 day turnarounds on its NorCal Albertsons and they did very similar remodels to Haggen (repaint walls and install new wall/aisle signs/checkstand lights). I am wondering if the redecoration is something Albertsons has encouraged these buyers to do (or forced them to do?). ... I wonde...

... https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7441/26711406984_759e1463f2_b.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7470/27043533010_1efb041042_b.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7352/26711405904_141a784b7a_b.jpg That store looks awful. The bagged salad section at my local VONS, which is a pretty small store, will ...

...10 years ago I would have said Safeway has a much better deli program than Kroger. The problem is Safeway has stayed the same and Kroger has made a lot of upgrades (Boar's Head, greatly expanded cheese, addition of baked seasoned and bbq seasoned chicken by the piece, addition of cold chinese fo...

Whole Foods has quite a few stores in the 30k square foot range that I've been into over the years. Most Wild Oats were that size or even smaller also. The stores are not as spacious as some of the others but they still seem to do a great business, probably better per square foot than the larger st...

klkla wrote:

rwsandiego wrote:The location was formerly a Ralphs and I believe an Alpha-Beta before that.

It was actually a Market Basket, then a Hughes Market, then Ralphs and now 365 by Whole Foods FWIW.

Yep, I was wrong. Not sure what I was thinking when I typed that. Thanks.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

... 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...