Retail Watchers

Now, to be honest, I'm just baffled. Didn't have time to go to a lot of stores today but I was in the Morris Plains location this afternoon. Not only was it the best-run Stop & Shop I've visited in a few weeks, it was just a plain old really good supermarket. It's a converted Edwards, last renov...

ClownLoach wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2024, 11:27 am I did visit a tiny little Fresh Fare in Camarillo, and it had been remodeled to the horrendous barnwood reclaimed decor.

I've heard a few people on this forum talking about how awful the reclaimed barnwood decor is, but I haven't been able to find pictures. Can someone post a link or a picture?

I found that during the pandemic, Stop & Shop's market share slipped by 1.1 percent, with the other Ahold Delhaize banners gained market share (they didn't have numbers for Giant-MD other than it being positive, but Food Lion went up 1.8, Giant-PA went up by 0.5, Hannaford went up by 0.5), blam...

Going up to New England, one factor is the future of Shaw's/Star Market. I suspect Wakefern/ShopRite would buy those. Shaw's is one of the weaker Albertsons divisions. Not sure Wakefern wants much of Shaw's/Star Market. I have to assume they don't want stores in Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont, an...

I enjoyed that comment- they mention there are "people shopping in the stores" causing the empty shelves. Looking around I don't see many shoppers. And the amount of fresh product out... implies there are not many shoppers and certainly not enough to empty the shelves faster than the empl...

I wanted to come back here now that there's some further discussion on my blog about this. We have any number of different comments people have left, but as you can see there are some really detailed reports on the NY (Hudson Valley and Long Island/Queens) stores. Overall, it sounds like stocking ha...

I don't want to call Haggen, Andronico's, Kings, and Balducci's worthless but those banners alone I am not sure they could stand alone. There is a reason who those companies sold to Albertsons. They were not exactly thriving. Haggen and King's/Balducci's were in bankruptcy. Andronico's was in somew...

https://www.abc27.com/local-news/giant-cuts-giant-direct-delivery-jobs-in-camp-hill-company-addresses-future-of-other-locations/ Is this just a 'one off' due to lack of business in that particular area, or will we see them slowly end their own delivery in other areas? Good question. I don't know th...

I would guess that because of the semi-independent nature of the way Ahold Delhaize chains are run, something has to be rotten at Stop & Shop Supermarket Company in Quincy. In January 2019, as you recall, they were going to scoop up King Kullen and although COVID officially killed it just a mon...

I went to four more Stop & Shops in Central Jersey today. Maybe it was just a particularly bad day for a particularly bad four stores, but I really feel like we're almost counting down the days here. Once again, all the stores were devoid of any and all customers. Started at Inman Avenue in Edis...