West Covina Albertsons closed
Posted: June 14th, 2018, 11:01 pm
A quiet closure.
https://www.sgvtribune.com/2018/06/13/w ... se-friday/
https://www.sgvtribune.com/2018/06/13/w ... se-friday/
Um... unlike a lot of these closures where another alternative tends to be farther away / a long transit ride away, there is a Walmart supercenter across this parking lot.“We depend on this market,” said Debra Fields. “There are lots of seniors that shop there as well as other people that this market is very convenient for them.”
From questions from the larger Albertsons opening/closures thread that was slipping into a discussion of this store:by a42887
storewanderer wrote:
a42887 wrote:
Jeff wrote:
Add another Albertsons: West Covina. Didn’t even know this store was closing. A former Luckys store that was remodeled a few years back. Been a supermarket since the early 1960s even maybe lAte 50s.
https://www.sgvtribune.com/2018/06/13/w ... se-friday/
It shares a parking lot with a Walmart that has a grocery section. Seems like the likely outcome, honestly.
How long has the Wal Mart Supercenter been there? Did it start as a regular Wal Mart and more recently convert to a Supercenter? Store appears to have had the Lucky interior in 2007 then remodeled (pretty good remodel too) by Supervalu.
From Google Maps, looks like less than 10 years, maybe less than 5. Building was maybe a Best Buy before Walmart moved in?
The shop will include 80,000-square-feet of family apparel, electronics and other general merchandise on the second floor and a 40,000-square-foot full-service grocery store on the first floor.
In the mid-1990s, when Portland, Oregon's Eastport Plaza was redeveloped, it had a new Albertsons and a new conventional Walmart almost next to each other. The Albertsons in that case closed several years before Walmart remodeled into a supercenter.SamSpade wrote: ↑June 15th, 2018, 12:11 pmUm... unlike a lot of these closures where another alternative tends to be farther away / a long transit ride away, there is a Walmart supercenter across this parking lot.“We depend on this market,” said Debra Fields. “There are lots of seniors that shop there as well as other people that this market is very convenient for them.”