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- January 17th, 2016, 11:55 am
- Forum: Midwest & Plains USA
- Topic: New Jewel-Osco opens in Bensenville
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14611
Re: New Jewel-Osco opens in Bensenville
They have had in-store made tortilla chips in the Safeway locations since before the Albertsons purchase and the LLC Southwest Stores also had them years ago. Most grocers in California offer in-store made tortilla chips (Safeway, Ralphs, Albertsons, etc.). Save Mart, for some reason, offers/offere...
- January 17th, 2016, 9:46 am
- Forum: Midwest & Plains USA
- Topic: New Jewel-Osco opens in Bensenville
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14611
New Jewel-Osco opens in Bensenville
The first Albertsons Cos. store of the new year* is open in Chicagoland, and from the press reports, it certainly sounds like a nice store. A made to order burrito/taco bar? I'm there! :o http://www.jewelosco.com/2015/12/jewel-osco-bensenville-opening-january-12-2016/ One thing to note is they menti...
- January 17th, 2016, 6:49 am
- Forum: Southwest & Hawai'i USA (Excluding California)
- Topic: HEB hires Mabrie Jackson as public affairs executive for North Texas
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14669
Re: HEB hires Mabrie Jackson as public affairs executive for North Texas
The current day Kroger operates much differently than the Kroger that exited various parts of Texas in the 1980's. They have far more productive stores than they had back then, sharper pricing, and better promotions. Also their private label program is better. HEB will not run Kroger out of Dallas ...
- January 16th, 2016, 4:44 pm
- Forum: Southwest & Hawai'i USA (Excluding California)
- Topic: HEB hires Mabrie Jackson as public affairs executive for North Texas
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14669
Re: HEB hires Mabrie Jackson as public affairs executive for North Texas
HEB will go after the lowest hanging fruit first. That is Albertsons and Tom Thumb. They have the lowest volume stores. Kroger locations typically do much higher volume. A Kroger doing $600,000 a week can afford to lose half of its business and still hang on (not well but at least hang on). An Albe...
- January 16th, 2016, 1:15 pm
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: Gelsons opening first of former Haggen locations January 14
- Replies: 125
- Views: 66833
Re: Gelsons opening first of former Haggen locations January 14
I hope they do not have the same fate as Haggen - not doing enough to the stores, not enough promotion on center store, etc. To me the store still looks like Haggen? Though, Haggen got to take all the shots on those mistakes. I fully respect the decision to get the stores opened back up quickly so ...
- January 16th, 2016, 1:11 pm
- Forum: Southwest & Hawai'i USA (Excluding California)
- Topic: HEB hires Mabrie Jackson as public affairs executive for North Texas
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14669
Re: HEB hires Mabrie Jackson as public affairs executive for North Texas
HEB will go after the lowest hanging fruit first. That is Albertsons and Tom Thumb. They have the lowest volume stores. Kroger locations typically do much higher volume. A Kroger doing $600,000 a week can afford to lose half of its business and still hang on (not well but at least hang on). An Albe...
- January 15th, 2016, 1:27 pm
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: Save-A-Lot Wants to Become the #1 Grocer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2860
Re: Save-A-Lot Wants to Become the #1 Grocer
This format has already failed around the west. I just don't see it. But they have to say bold things to get people to invest. Yeah, Save-a-Lot came and went in places like Texas. It was part of a whole failed chain of events that involved Grocery Outlet and Yes! Less (a discount grocery option by ...
- January 15th, 2016, 1:25 pm
- Forum: Southeast USA
- Topic: [CONFIRMED] Albertsons FL converting to Safeway
- Replies: 125
- Views: 65996
Re: [CONFIRMED] Albertsons FL converting to Safeway
No one's going to want second-hand Walmart NM stores with no full sized supermarket amenities. Maybe best chance is another dollar store or an IGA (or something). It's far more likely that Albertsons might take out BI-LO/Winn-Dixie in whole or in part.
- January 15th, 2016, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains (Including Discount Stores)
- Topic: Walmart closing 269 stores globally, 154 in the US.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7243
Re: Walmart closing 269 stores globally, 154 in the US.
It could be an opportunity for Albertsons and/or Kroger to pick up those WM Express/Market sites. Alb's is converting its FL stores to Safeway, which may be a sign that they want to expand in the South. Often, Walmart puts deed restrictions on their former stores to keep direct competitors out. It ...
- January 15th, 2016, 1:05 pm
- Forum: Southwest & Hawai'i USA (Excluding California)
- Topic: HEB hires Mabrie Jackson as public affairs executive for North Texas
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14669
Re: HEB hires Mabrie Jackson as public affairs executive for North Texas
The market leaders, Tom Thumb and Kroger are both card stores, and the "no-card" advertising is used in H-E-B. If the Tom Thumb stores followed that principle as well before H-E-B comes in and starts at least temporarily an EDLP program, that should buy them time before H-E-B starts to do...