Retail Watchers

Update for Delaware. Acme stil has the same amount of High Volume Stores in the state. Walmart now has 10 Super Centers. Redners is in the process of building two more DE locationsa. Super G has Four.. Farmers Pride(formerly Food City) has one store in Georgetown; Foodlion has added five new locatio...

Hi, The gang that couldn!t run a supermarket chain has struck again. To day they announced to the press at the same time they told their Department managers that they were going to lay off 900 par time people. This is simply amother atempt to get full time day people to work evening and week end hou...

Hi, According to the Baltimore Sun, A&P plans to close then sell five units on the Delmarva Penninsular as part of a Twenty store closing of units in D.C. , Maryland and Delaware. The five sores are Chestertown, Cambridge,Salisbury, and Milford DE. Milford, Delaware and Cambridge Md were the las...

HI, I doubt that Super Valu will close all of the remaining stores, unless some entity purchases all of them. They will continue to sell off a few to independents or to competitors in the area, untill they get to two hundred and will continue to opperate them. Reason simple they are worth more open ...

Hi, safeway has pulled the plug on the Route seven and forty unit in Bear De. This store was originaly built as a Thriftway, then sold to Genuardis, This store was unionized like the other two in Delaware and were converted to the Safeway Banner. Safeway allowed this store to simply fall apart. Dirt...

Hi, It is the same generic label that is used at Acme, Redners,Supervalu independent customers across the country. Dame label just a different name on it. Must be economy of scale. ButI I can see it offered to a banner of independents ( Super Valu), I think it hurts their own chains like Acme, When ...

Hi, The former Super Fresh on Route 896 in Glassgow Delaware, built in 2,006 closed in 2,007, reopened in 2008 as a Pathmark will close at the end of this year. Shop Rite will take the leaseand open its fifth store in Nortern Delaware some time next year. This seems like it had to happen, Pathmark h...

Hi, This past week Super G demoted all of their full time meat cutters with the exception of Their Meat Managers. The cutters were given a choice they could be reduced to a 30 hour work week, plus permium Sunday hours, loose full time benefits or remain full time by working and additional ten hours ...

Hi, Last week Acme and local 27 finaly reach and agrement for two years. The company recieved some payment towards health care from its clerks. The clerks and department heads will recieve a raise and a bonus the second year of the pact. The company will not have full time lay offs or close any stor...

Hi, If a low volume store is just looking to tread water. self check outs are OK. If that store manager is looking to improve his stores volume, Then nothing beets his ambasodor of good will, his eyes and ears to the public (That and his Sevice department staff) his human Cashiers and I mean well pa...