Retail Watchers

Welcome to Greensboro, hometown of Groceteria.com (but there are other interesting things here as well).

Meanwhile in Canada:

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storewanderer wrote: ↑February 3rd, 2023, 11:13 pmI am not clear when Safeway left Visalia or which division it was in when it left but I know Safeway was in Visalia at some point.

Safeway closed Porterville, Visalia, and Tulare in 1984 citing "high labor costs" per the Tulare Advance-Regster.

Clearly they spared no expense on packaging design. I opted against buying one.

Beer and wine bars have been fairly common in larger new Lowes Foods and Harris Teeter locations in North Carolina for several years. I think it’s pretty common in Pennsylvania as well, since that was part of the original loophole that allowed supermarkets to start selling beer to begin with IIRC.

Most of Los Angeles is not like that, in my experience (and I have lived here on and off since 1984, ooops, giving my age away 😉). ^^^ This… Of course there are urban neighborhoods that are more crime-prone and there are retailers that react to this environment. Is this new? No. When I lived in San...

Back in my day, we had to walk ten miles uphill (both ways) to Starbucks. In the snow. While wearing tuxedos and ball gowns.

Maybe Spinco can be merged with Transformco and everything can be rebranded as the second coming of Kmart Food.

Sorry…

Also plenty of Walmart Neighborhood Markets, a few Sprouts, and Fresh Market (founded in NC). There are a couple of Super Target locations around Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham. Agreed with @storewanderer on Ingles (mostly west of the Triad) and Lowes, which positions itself as "local" and &...