I’m surprised Bashas finally has lower pricing than Fry’s/Safeway/Albertsons. They’ve tended to have higher prices than those chains from what I’ve heard on this forum.storewanderer wrote: ↑November 15th, 2023, 1:52 am One thing I found interesting in the Bashas Stores is their price structure. I think their everyday pricing is lower than Safeway/Albertsons/Frys. Their sale prices aren't necessarily as many or as good but on an everyday basis their prices are very fair/reasonable. Yet hardly anyone seems to be shopping these stores Bashas. They feel dead, look dead, and just have a dead vibe. The employees seem bored and sort of unenthusiastic, but somewhat friendly. Food City seems to be viable but I cannot believe the condition of some of those stores... and their service is terrible. Food City must have good hot food because there was a line up at every location I went to that had hot food. AJs seems to run a first class operation but their center store business looks to be almost nothing at this point, they need to reinvent themself to make produce/meat/center store/seafood more productive. It looks like most of their sales are prepared food/bakery/drinks.
There seems to be a Bashas private label again, on some items, the ones with a white background package and red background logo are Raleys brand items redesigned with the Bashas logo. Then other items have Food Club, others have some weird "Bashas A to Z" label, and some seem to be generic packer labels.
I was reading one of your posts on Raley’s acquisition of Bashas, you went to AZ over 20 years ago and thought Bashas was a lousy operation around Phoenix compared to the Big Three chains.
I don’t know if you’ve been to Bashas in the Tucson area yet, but the Bashas stores out there are all newer, upscale stores in the affluent suburban areas of Tucson. Those stores are operationally more like a Pavilions or Mariano’s with high quality fresh departments. I had extended family living in Catalina Foothills (a suburb of Tucson) until 2013. My grandparents shopped at Bashas in Catalina Foothills (although my uncle and aunt, who also lived out there, went to Albertsons or Safeway).
I’m glad Bashas finally is growing their own store brand. Bashas used the Hy-Top label from Federated until 2002, when they switched to Topco brands (Food Club, etc).
Found pics of what “Bashas A To Z” looks like: https://thegroagency.com/work/bashas-a-to-z-pantry/
It’s a rebadge of the Crav’n brand (Topco brand for snack and frozen foods).
I know Bashas had their own brand of soda at one time (in 2012 I think).
Stater Bros. uses the Food Club label on a few random items like cereal.