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Corvallis has also closed. http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/ ... dadc6.html

So Fiesta acquired these stores and sold off the ones that didn't make sense for their format to HEB? How many Minyards are still owned by Fiesta? Fiesta bought the remaining original "Minyard Food Stores" but only two Minyard Sun Fresh stores. Ah, so there's some currently unclaimed righ...

With so many rinky-dink Raley's stores, why not take the third option and convert them to a Food Source? Food Source isn't a very successful operation other than it's core stores being Mack Road & 99, Broadway, Pittsburg, and Rio Linda. There aren't actually too many "rinky-dink" stor...

So Fiesta acquired these stores and sold off the ones that didn't make sense for their format to HEB? How many Minyards are still owned by Fiesta?

The more and more I look into these choices, it seems more and more to point to Raley's (and SaveMart's) head office and their unwillingness to invest in the Reno market. These type of things don't really happen in Sacramento or the Bay Area for either chain actually. For instance, a SaveMart near m...

klkla wrote:Is the location of this Raley's in an area that is highly seasonal?

No... Sparks is a relatively normal middle class suburb of Reno.

Wow, that is truly terrible. I wonder if it also has to do with distribution a bit because even low volume stores in Sacramento (Citrus Heights for instance) do not look like this at all. Then again, not even Winnemucca looked like that. I would bet that Raley's is much more complacent with waste in...

http://www.walb.com/story/32746486/ruby-tuesday-to-close-95-restaurants?sf33209025=1 Not too familiar with them (they don't have any presence in this area) but they cite weakness in the casual dining industry as the cause of the closures. Not sure I buy that, as it seems that chains that are execut...

It surprised me too that the South Lake store has not been touched, it does very high volume and is actually the only Raley's store to be open until midnight. It is also one of Raley's oldest stores so I would guess you're right in that it would simply cost too much or could even be impossible to re...

I think the Sun Valley Raleys you refer to is the North Hills Store I am referring to. The only grocer in Sun Valley is a Scolaris that is a real trip back in time. What is funny is I've been to a ton of Raleys that have that store floorplan/layout as North Hills: Carson City, Fallon (closed), Chic...