Retail Watchers

As of right now, if things continue on their current path, SuperValu will choose to divest their chains, and while Cub Foods is good enough to sell off wholesale to another operator (Kroger, SpartanNash, Albertsons???), Shoppers will probably be divvied up among others. (Shop N Save would be anothe...

I don't really see how Shoppers is facing "crucial times". Sure, it's market share has radically declined, but as long as SuperValu stays solvent and doesn't make indications that the rest of the non-NAI bunch will be divested, or store conditions aren't rapidly deteriorating, is it at th...

Excellent news in the tumultous retail world of the present day. Now we no longer ride on the path to everything being one huge corporation (reminds me of Buy-N-Large from Wall-E )... :P I mean, the competition from Wally World/Amazon may be tough, so try to innovate and work out better plans, Stapl...

Wouldn't have thought so. Huge audience these days...

Maybe it's just lumped there with the "artificial" brands?

Well, what an unexpected move! I would have never expected them to bring back more hardline-related things. This however wouldn't have fit in my nearest (closed) JCP...

Don't forget that Food Fair/Pantry Pride was also in the D.C. area. Wasn't Grand Union there as well? They were, but they had mostly disappeared by the 80s, I believe. Shoppers might have swallowed up a few of these stores. Food Lion has been in the area for a while. I remember back in 1998 when I ...

Wow, I didn't know that Shoppers had fallen that low. I was kind of under the impression that it was the third place to Safeway and Giant (like it apparently was?) To be honest, I think there are several things at play here, partly because it received a lot of damage in the era of an overburdened S...

Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, a subsidiary of SuperValu, has almost been an outsider in the Greater Washington, D.C. grocery market for a while now. For those not in the know, the chain was built on a "low warehouse pricing" promise which innovated in several ways, which in turn led to mas...

From what I've seen, the Kroger Marketplace stores do look like an impressive combination of grocery and the extras. Of course there are more chains like Fred Meyer and Meijer as well. I would have to lament about the presence of hypermarkets here, however; Walmart is just about the only store with ...