Retail Watchers

There's an interesting article at Forbes that takes a more positive look at removing self check-outs. Unfortunately, they fail to remember about that if you remove self check-outs you have to properly staff your others, which Albertsons hasn't been consistent on, to put it nicely.

Wait, are any one of these the recent store that opened in November 2014? Sounds short-lived to me, as if Food Lion had the upper hand in that market. All this merger news is going too fast... soon enough, with all these changes, Publix will be in NJ and Weis down in Georgia, it seems. I do not hav...

Harvey's Supermarkets serves African Americans in the deep south? That is a bad stereotype. Americans of African descent shop at other grocery stores. Yeah, I thought that it seemed mildly racist to divide the stores against racial lines (what, is Winn-Dixie "whites only" now?) but even i...

Tonight, I chatted with a long time cashier at this location that I've known for many, many years. She told me that corporate doesn't like the layout of the store and is going to remodel it AGAIN next year. They are going to add a Wells Fargo Bank, redo the service deli areas (they have a huge basi...

There are just too many things to go wrong in this set-up, things like jumping a turnstile, getting wrongly accused of lifting items, opening up packages and then just leaving without the item in hand after already consuming said item, getting overcharged, and many potential foibles. In a corporate-...

Perhaps that is the intention - since it's stuff that is being reduced to get rid of it, making the signs and displays look cheap goes with the idea that the items are the same? Not in the middle of the store! Every store I've been to has clearance in a back corner of the store, a front corner of t...

storewanderer wrote:Buying Andronico's seems similar to this. Similar size stores...

Andronico's is actually operating, this one is a defunct space. The shopping center actually had a smaller Tom Thumb that lasted up until 2001 (surviving under both Randalls and Safeway), so I don't see this as a big step back.

Yeesh! That looks awful, in the center of the store no less. The handmade signs don't look good for a professional environment at all, either. An employee with mild talent with a permanent marker does not a supermarket make.

An interesting growth move and they are clearly not throwing a ton of money at what they are buying. More, just buy buy buy, whatever stores they possibly can, to paint that picture of growth. Hopefully somewhere along the way they can learn something to operate their chain better and start to turn...

No, that isn't true. Here's a map of the affected area in Dallas: dfd.png K=Kroger A=Albertsons T=Tom Thumb W=Walmart I didn't include any other players, because this was for a basic example. If you look at the area roughly bordered by I-30 on the north, I-635 on the east, I-20 on the south and I-3...