I think Smiths has a good reputation in New Mexico. They have routinely been voted best grocery store in the Albuquerque market for quite some time. From what I saw there, those stores execute well and seem to have a better quality reputation than Smiths has in other places (they have really improve...

They have started to reissue those $10 off any purchase coupons again to customers on their e-mail lists... they did it in December, did it again a few weeks ago, and I think may have done it again this week. I'd be interested to see the profit loss too. Part of the sales decline definitely results ...

This is a bit different since PIN numbers were not stolen and the physical card readers themselves were not compromised. Rather, it was a situation where software was bugged and the compromise happened that way. I see Save Mart has STILL not replaced its card readers. I know nowhere else using those...

I used to go to Quiznos fairly often when we had more open in my area as a couple were really convenient and I used to keep getting coupons (which they accepted). I never had any problems omitting ingredients or even deviating from the sauce designated on the sandwiches. With that said, I felt the q...

I actually like the stores too as I got to experience more of their products over the past year. They have made a lot of improvements to mix and they have a ton of great items, both fresh items and packaged items. I will be sorry to see them go. I do not think selling off all of the equipment bodes ...

I think someone's "strategic review" is complete...

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Yes, two stores in Portland far removed from the rest of the base doesn't make much sense. Those two stores are pretty close together and I would guess they can exist relatively easier for ad/vendor reasons. I have no idea how the stores do; Tualatin was the first Haggen I ever visited but I never h...

Oregon City and Tualitin are still open... supposedly they will retain those two.

resh Market... This is rather major, they are closing their two MT Warehouses and shifting all of those orders to the Farr West warehouse north of Salt Lake City. This is a 550 or so mile transportation to customers in Montana but they say costs will fall due to the warehouse overhead elimination. A...

These current Walmart Neighborhood Markets will never do much volume. They are clearly designed not to. No service departments, often not too large in size, skeleton staffing levels, marginal pricing, awful atmosphere... But I think they will capture enough volume to force a number of marginally per...