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by pseudo3d
March 20th, 2024, 9:55 am
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 364
Views: 23594

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

Florida is a long, long way from Boise. That was one problem, the lack of the willingness to compete was another. They had the infrastructure with the Plant City DC, but that itself is deep in Publix territory. A first grader with crayons could have taken down Winn Dixie. Albertsons came to Florida...
by pseudo3d
March 19th, 2024, 6:33 pm
Forum: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Fast Food chains focusing on apps while menu prices skyrocket
Replies: 21
Views: 720

Re: Fast Food chains focusing on apps while menu prices skyrocket

All this chatter begs the question: Why do people still go to these fast food places? They don't. They go to In-N-Out instead. Look at the lines there. Have you seen the Chili's commercials? They say "have you seen the fast food prices? It's like they want you to eat at Chili's instead." ...
by pseudo3d
March 19th, 2024, 6:26 pm
Forum: Northeast USA
Topic: Stop & Shop closures
Replies: 98
Views: 12281

Re: Stop & Shop closures

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...
by pseudo3d
March 19th, 2024, 6:01 pm
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 364
Views: 23594

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

There were no problems with Albertsons in Florida. Everyone I visited were clean, modern, well staffed and well run. The "problem" was they did not have enough stores to make a difference and for some reason would not build more stores. I think they would have taken W/D to the cleaners IF...
by pseudo3d
March 19th, 2024, 1:25 pm
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 364
Views: 23594

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

There were no problems with Albertsons in Florida. Everyone I visited were clean, modern, well staffed and well run. The "problem" was they did not have enough stores to make a difference and for some reason would not build more stores. I think they would have taken W/D to the cleaners IF...
by pseudo3d
March 19th, 2024, 12:23 pm
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 364
Views: 23594

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

I'm also reading about and seeing signs of major changes at Amazon, it sounds like they've merged Fresh/Go/WFM internally to optimize their businesses and lower costs. I hadn't been in a WFM in a while and was rather surprised to see major price cuts all over the store undercutting all competition ...
by pseudo3d
March 19th, 2024, 10:08 am
Forum: California USA
Topic: Albertsons/Vons/Pavilions Cutting Store Hours
Replies: 25
Views: 709

Re: Albertsons/Vons/Pavilions Cutting Store Hours

This is likely another push from Apollo to lower costs. They do this at other retailers they invest in. They have a consultant (AlixPartners or Accenture) who runs sales per hour studies and change all the hours using an algorithm. Usually what happens is they discover later that a competitor will ...
by pseudo3d
March 19th, 2024, 9:13 am
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 364
Views: 23594

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

At this point they've said they will fight the FTC... so they will just have to keep fighting I guess. Obviously there are other acquisition opportunities out there that both parties are missing, due to this uncertainty. Ahold minus Food Lion would have been a far better merger partner for Kroger t...
by pseudo3d
March 19th, 2024, 9:12 am
Forum: Northeast USA
Topic: Stop & Shop closures
Replies: 98
Views: 12281

Re: Stop & Shop closures

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), blami...
by pseudo3d
March 19th, 2024, 9:10 am
Forum: Department Store Chains
Topic: Nordstrom going to Private Equity?
Replies: 12
Views: 459

Re: Nordstrom going to Private Equity?

From what I've heard, their pickup/delivery stuff is all store-based, it's not directly out of a warehouse, so an employee has to go in, find the item in question (if it's in stock) and then package it up. (I had a coworker several years back who used to work at a Nordstrom.)