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They should have done this a while ago. Maverik hasn't built many locations there and hasn't done overly well. They have a couple very high performing locations though. One of those very high performing Maverik units is at the next exit from this first QT. However the Maverik is extremely well posi...

I still wonder how Fred Meyer / Ralph’s / Fry’s / Smith’s would have done as a stand-alone company versus the Kroger merger, and how much different the grocery retail scene would look today given what others have mentioned about Ralph’s volume. I’m guessing the Fred Meyer experiment in California w...

If memory serves, in the late 80s in Metro Detroit Farmer Jack clearly led the market with about a 20% share of the market and Kroger/Chatham/Great Scott/A&P each had about 10% (Chatham was a little more successful in Macomb County). And now...Meijer entered; Kroger slurped up everyone else and...

Unknown where he is going. Pretty sure he was to be the CFO of the larger merged entity. He joined Kroger in 2008. I read he is going to Costco. https://www.cfo.com/news/kroger-cfo-millerchip-todd-foley-albertsons-merger-grocery-interim/706642/#:~:text=Gary%20Millerchip%20relinquished%20his%20role,...

I believe Walmart is trying to take advantage of CVS's, Walgreen's and Kroger's troubles with some of these remodels. I was in a busy (probably busiest I've seen) Neighborhood Market in the Sunnyslope neighborhood of Phoenix today. Sunnyslope is a weird 3 ish mile x 2 mile slice of Phoenix that is r...

I think we're reading too much into the first two stores to open, these Neighborhood Markets. The Atlanta store is a downgraded supercenter (downgrading into a Neighborhood Market) due to arson issues which closed the store and is not really "new". https://atlanta.urbanize.city/post/walmar...

The challenges you describe at Ralphs seem to exist throughout Kroger. It is just some divisions are hiding it a lot better than others. King Soopers and Fred Meyer in my opinion are the two divisions doing the best job of not having a lot of stores with these maintenance issues/sloppy operations. ...

Frys has one site with a full c-store again taken over from maybe an Arco operator at Rural/Ray in Tempe? This one also follows the pattern of the Mesquite Smiths- store items at store prices. There's actually a second Fry's store with a full convenience store. It was taken over by a Chevron operat...

For unknown reasons, our local Fox-affiliated television station decided to broadcast the story about this Oakland In-n-Out location closing. Unfortunately it provided none of the context or information here (typical network TV), and basically made Oakland sound like a crime-ridden horror show. So,...

Looks like WinCo is finally building a new store in Goodyear, AZ by the end of this year (for their 8th Arizona location). https://www.goodyearaz.gov/Home/Components/News/News/12997/ This store has been in the works seemingly since WinCo entered into the market 10 - 12 years ago and the parking lot ...