I'm in Northern Virginia. All but one of the Aldi stores near me are in strip centers where Aldi took over space from a closed retailer. There is one Aldi store on the east side of Manassas that is in a new build shopping strip where Aldi is in a standalone building. The Aldi stores around me seem t...

Wal Mart had a store in Reno that eliminated 24 hour operations last year then brought it back again not long after. It is a store in a very central location, actually on an Indian Tribe's land (so sales tax goes to the Tribe), but the store clearly has some issues. Many issues. Theft, crime, other...

I'm in the DC area and here's my view since the merger: +Stores are cleaner. +New lighting has made a huge difference to brighten up the stores. The Lifestyle format as built was too dark. +Overall stock levels are much better. +Sale ads seem to be more aggressive especially for commonly purchased i...

I've never understood the reasoning behind these drug stores flooding areas with locations. To me the drug store chains seem like glorified convenience stores with prices to match. Personally I haven't been in a drug store until recently when my prescription coverage went to CVS/Caremark. To get the...

Stafford is certainly closer to Safeway's trade area than Publix's, and frankly, I wouldn't be too sure of Publix in the DC suburbs until the Richmond market is a success and they start opening stores north. Publix is rumored to be coming a retail development near the Southpointe/Cosner's Corner ar...

Shoppers is a quasi-warehouse format around DC (more of a conventional up in Baltimore though) but their locations skew in middle to lower middle class areas. These are not really the types of locations I would expect Safeway to target. Maybe someone like a Shop Rite or one of the other independent...

Save-A-Lot faces competition from rival limited assortment/discount grocers Aldi and Lidl. Could Publix acquire both Farm Fresh (42 stores) and Shoppers (52 stores)? Acquiring both chains gets Publix into the Hampton Roads, Virginia, region and Maryland. SuperValu would remove itself from the Atlan...

If I recall correctly, one of those "other" Martin's stores includes one built a few years ago, so I have to assume the stores are making money and won't be closed down, changed to the Food Lion, or just letting their leases run out. Maybe the stores weren't divested firstly because they weren't in...

I'm very curious to see what will happen to the Richmond Martins stores that were not sold to Publix. In the articles I saw about the divestitures Ahold said that they would continue to operate the stores pending a sale to other operators. Thus far I haven't seen any word of who these stores would ...

Agreed. Target also seems to no longer be focused on their core large stores. Their planned store development list (below) shows that every planned new store is between 17,000 square feet and 50,000 square feet (except for one store in Spring, Texas). They're essentially opening up trendy, slightly...