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by Super S
February 27th, 2024, 9:22 pm
Forum: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Wendys Dynamic Pricing
Replies: 7
Views: 447

Re: Wendys Dynamic Pricing

This is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard about. The potential is there to do things like raise prices during lunch hour and other busy periods, raise prices when the dining room is open, raise prices to push people to use an app/loyalty program, etc. Wendy's seemed to be doing ok, and has ...
by Super S
February 24th, 2024, 1:02 pm
Forum: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Thrifty Ice Cream now at Vons/Albertsons
Replies: 21
Views: 1222

Re: Thrifty Ice Cream now at Vons/Albertsons

Makes you wonder if Albertsons trying to buy Rite Aid is in the works again....
by Super S
February 24th, 2024, 1:00 pm
Forum: Northwest, Rockies, & Alaska USA
Topic: Burlingame Fred Meyer sign demolished
Replies: 13
Views: 1212

Re: Burlingame Fred Meyer sign demolished

As far as this goes I'm just glad we didn't get a box shaped fruit cart logo Fred Meyer sign... I like neon and we have a developer in Reno who has taken out a bunch of old weekly motels (causing exponential growth in the local homeless population) and demolished them but kept all the old neon sign...
by Super S
February 22nd, 2024, 1:05 pm
Forum: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Golden Corral All You Can Eat Butterfly Shrimp & Chicken Tenders
Replies: 15
Views: 847

Re: Golden Corral All You Can Eat Butterfly Shrimp & Chicken Tenders

One thing a lot of the buffets have done is to start charging for drinks, and those can get expensive. Old Country Buffet/Hometown Buffet was doing this at the end also. I always wondered what happens if you do NOT purchase a beverage...are you allowed to at least get water? Do they give you a diff...
by Super S
February 21st, 2024, 5:10 pm
Forum: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Golden Corral All You Can Eat Butterfly Shrimp & Chicken Tenders
Replies: 15
Views: 847

Re: Golden Corral All You Can Eat Butterfly Shrimp & Chicken Tenders

About a year or two before COVID hit, a Golden Corral opened in Vancouver, WA. It is still open, but I have never been to that location. I have been wondering if they are a traditional buffet still, or if they dish out the food you want like a cafeteria, or if they bring you refills on items like th...
by Super S
February 20th, 2024, 4:55 pm
Forum: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores
Replies: 1500
Views: 141715

Re: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores

thrifty ice cream would be wise to become a standalone brand at this point, the best buyer for thrifty ice cream would probably be albertsons and would be a great partner to expand thrifty ice cream into new markets. I still wonder why they haven't tried expanding this in some existing store locati...
by Super S
February 19th, 2024, 5:47 pm
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 361
Views: 23414

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

Fred Meyer is a very important component of the larger Kroger organization. Taking away Fred Meyer would be like cutting one of the 4 tires off of a car and expecting to drive it with 3 tires. And to that point the Kroger organization is very important to Fred Meyer as they provide the power and pr...
by Super S
February 19th, 2024, 5:09 am
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: Digital Coupons
Replies: 10
Views: 626

Re: Digital Coupons

Where it gets REALLY annoying is when a sale price requires a card, app, AND a paper coupon for the sale price. Fred Meyer has done this from time to time. I usually can find the same price elsewhere though. The whole card thing has caused me to shift a lot of shopping to WinCo where they don't have...
by Super S
February 18th, 2024, 12:04 pm
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 361
Views: 23414

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

I seem to remember reading in the last ten years that Fred Meyer's merchandise mix has been changed in the last ten years to resemble more of the Marketplace stores. They have definitely scaled back on the GM side. Departments like Sporting Goods and Automotive are smaller, as is hardware. Paint mi...
by Super S
February 18th, 2024, 5:17 am
Forum: Restaurant Chains
Topic: CA to ban disposable cups at restaurants for eat in
Replies: 32
Views: 1167

Re: CA to ban disposable cups at restaurants for eat in

Coca-Cola Freestyle machines are a big source of soda waste. Customers mix up different flavors and then pour it all out to try another flavor combination. People just stand in front of the machine tasting different flavors and it really holds up the line. It is awful. The sodas from these machines...