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The problem is, Kroger's perimeter departments across many divisions generally don't inspire confidence (to put it nicely). We'll see how this turns out after a year. If any of the big chains can pull it off, it's probably Kroger. Here in SoCal Ralphs' perimeter departments are pretty mediocre exce...

Here are some photos from store that include the slightly-changed logo:
http://jacksonville.com/business/2016-0 ... w-approach

This store just opened in Jacksonville. It had been closed for five years according to the article and is the first of 50 remodels to be done in the near future. The decor package is pretty dramatic. The only problem I see is that WD has historically been bad executing at store level. A health food ...

Just a thought: with all of the consolidation taking place in the grocery industry right now, could anyone see Publix, HEB or Wegmans becoming a merger target? As far as being 'targets' for mergers that might be unlikely because they're all pretty tightly held from an ownership standpoint. Publix -...

Also interesting that this comes closely behind Wegmans announcement of their first NC store to be built in Cary (Raleigh-Durham area) where Publix and Wegmans will go head to head for the first time. I guess they know what they are doing, as successful as they've been but wonder if the further the...

This is not the first time they have been in that neighborhood. Mayfair, which later became a Jons, was on the corner of Fountain and La Brea forever before being torn down for another Hollywood mega development a couple of years ago. I remember that Mayfair really well. It was in very bad shape. I...

My neighborhood Whole Foods has a great Juice Bar that they run in-house. I've seen them in local Bristol Farms, as well. There seems to be a demand for the product. The problem is that the big chains are not good at running food-service programs that require well-trained employees. They're also not...

Gelson's announced they would build their second store in Hollywood at the corner of Sunset & Gardner, three blocks west of the high-volume but sketchy 'Rock & Roll' Ralphs. How times have changed. That neighborhood could never have supported a Gelson's five years ago. http://www.prnewswire....

I have some ocean front property in Phoenix to sell you if you believe it's coincidence. j/k Years ago Safeway had a tentative deal with SuperValu to buy Dominick's for $180 million IIRC. The deal fell through for a couple reasons and would have represented less than 10% of what Safeway had paid for...

Albertsons didn't purchase Safeway to take over the Chicago market for certain, as Dominick's was already dead and gone three months before the deal was even announced. Safeway tried to get rid of all the remaining Dominick's stores, and still had 19 left, which indicates that Safeway still couldn'...