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I noticed that the local San Francisco Bay Area Safeway stores no longer have deli soda fountains. They used to have tiny versions of the Coca Cola Freestyle machines. I also noticed that Safeway is adding some new shopping carts. These are black plastic that look like the old Lifestyle shopping ca...

Also do you see any Wal Mart delis with Dietz and Watson program in service deli? Wonder if this is widespread or isolates. Never seen a Walmart deli with anything other than Prima Della. I'm not sure I'd trust Walmart to keep up a program like Dietz and Watson. The couple times I tried getting any...

Also do you see any Wal Mart delis with Dietz and Watson program in service deli? Wonder if this is widespread or isolates. Never seen a Walmart deli with anything other than Prima Della. I'm not sure I'd trust Walmart to keep up a program like Dietz and Watson. The couple times I tried getting any...

You might order at the window and they will tell you to drive back after 20 minutes. In the mean time you will have to either park in the parking lot or find somewhere else to go. This might appeal to a person eating alone, but if you have multiple people it would be more pleasant to just go inside...

Item by item the Acme pricing is not necessarily good. It isn't clear what items are sale prices and what aren't. When you get into PA and you look at Giant-PA pricing vs. Acme pricing, Acme pricing is mostly quite a bit higher, but they have some good specials to help buffer that somewhat. I actua...

retailfanmitchell019 wrote: ↑November 3rd, 2023, 11:46 pm I’d expect Safeway to exit the Eastern Seaboard region anyway assuming the merger doesn’t go through.

What is your reasoning on this?

It doesn't help that CVS and Walgreens are also Pharmacy Benefits Managers. Their PBM plans are written to give you the best prices on maintenance meds by either going mail order or their own retail pharmacies. If you go to an independent or grocery store pharmacy you can still get maintenance meds ...

I don't expect ACI's performance improvements to continue in the coming months. I am seeing execution issues popping up, at multiple stores, and the pricing decisions they are making lately are perplexing. I'm noticing a smaller weekly ad flyer and less aggressive Just 4 U offers. Also, Safeway has...

Last time I ate at Panera Bread, my Mac and Cheese was obviously microwaved, the bread was going stale and the self-service drink area looked like it hadn't been cleaned since the previous day. All this for a so-called premium price. Haven't been back since and it has been several years. It is too b...

I'm very curious to see the list of ten Harris Teeter stores that are proposed to be divested. I want to see how close they are to existing Safeway stores primarily. My initial thought when the merger was first announced was that Kroger would want to offload the Safeway stores since they are not nat...