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September 4th, 2018, 6:39 am
Aldi To Turn Off Lights To Save Money
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Alpha8472 »
June 12th, 2023, 3:54 pm
Aldi is turning off its lights after hours to save money and reduce its carbon footprint.
I remember once Safeway had some sort of computer problem...
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July 31st, 2023, 7:38 pm
Predictive PLU NCR Self Checkout
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storewanderer »
July 18th, 2023, 10:19 pm
A Hispanic store in Reno called Marketon has installed self checkouts. NCR self checkouts and they use Storeline register software.
Primarily at...
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July 18th, 2023, 10:19 pm
Whole Foods Amazon Prime 10% off
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storewanderer »
June 19th, 2023, 10:32 pm
So, Whole Foods has been doing that 10% off sale prices with Amazon Prime for a while now. Generally speaking I did find that pricing in the past to...
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July 13th, 2023, 12:29 am
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June 20th, 2023, 10:25 am
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June 17th, 2023, 9:19 pm
SpinCo
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storewanderer »
October 14th, 2022, 10:23 pm
New thread to discuss SpinCo
What is SpinCo? From Kroger Albertsons merger website:
Subject to the outcome of a store divestiture process, the...
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June 15th, 2023, 12:14 am
Coupons wtf?
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Romr123 »
June 9th, 2023, 6:09 am
What's going on these days with coupons? I (dinosaur) still get a Sunday paper which 3 weeks out of 4 has one or more FSIs (free-standing...
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June 14th, 2023, 1:09 am
Frozen Fries and..Egypt?
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storewanderer »
June 11th, 2023, 9:10 pm
At WinCo was looking over the frozen fries and disappointed with pricing.
WinCo brand 28-32oz fries now at 3.32 and brands of course higher. Much...
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June 13th, 2023, 1:07 am
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June 4th, 2023, 11:37 pm
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May 30th, 2023, 8:48 pm
Digital Shelf Tags
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storewanderer »
May 15th, 2023, 12:19 am
The Holiday/Sav-Mor chain in rural northern California seems to have converted most/all of its stores to 100% digital shelf tags. They seemed to have...
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May 17th, 2023, 12:11 am
Plastic pallets instead of boxes
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storewanderer »
May 7th, 2023, 8:59 pm
In 99 Only today they had a couple pallets of BIG Paper Towels (on sale for .9999) on pallets. What was interesting is these pallets had the paper...
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May 15th, 2023, 10:41 pm
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May 10th, 2023, 9:16 pm
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May 3rd, 2023, 12:22 am
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April 26th, 2023, 12:25 am
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April 23rd, 2023, 7:37 pm
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April 13th, 2023, 11:07 am
The UPC story
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veteran+ »
April 6th, 2023, 10:05 am
Thought this was interesting.
Side note: PRE IBM barcode, Food Fair was using the earlier UPC format in their stores (Fox Markets) on the west...
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April 8th, 2023, 9:39 pm
Trader Joes
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veteran+ »
April 1st, 2023, 11:16 am
Many of my friends ended up at TJs after Ralphs, Vons and F&E closed stores in the Coachella Valley.
They revealed that TJs was nothing like what...
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April 4th, 2023, 10:41 pm
Natural Grocers -1.99 dozen eggs
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storewanderer »
January 2nd, 2023, 12:36 am
Reno Natural Grocers has had a cheap looking banner on its building for the past 4-5 years advertising 1.99 dozen eggs. That is all the banner says....
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March 17th, 2023, 5:43 pm
Albertsons Cos Advertising
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SamSpade »
January 26th, 2023, 3:22 pm
Some divisions (not seen this tag anywhere locally, but see images online for Acme, Safeway, VONS, Albertsons) are using a tag line of Fresh Foods,...
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March 15th, 2023, 12:38 pm
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March 14th, 2023, 8:15 am
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March 11th, 2023, 12:09 am
Courtesy clerks (baggers) - Y or N?
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SamSpade »
February 15th, 2023, 5:46 pm
In visiting my hometown and parents, it always threw me when the local independent had baggers. However, the other day we were at Albertsons and yes,...
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February 22nd, 2023, 11:32 pm
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