Retail Watchers

Winn-Dixie's stores are valuable because of its footprint in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Bi-Lo and Harvey's have select quality stores in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina that could be acquired. Publix is not afraid to acquire select quality stores. Most of its...

Harvey's Supermarket has expanded into North Carolina through Bi-Lo. Bi-Lo #5444 , 1620 Ashley Road, Charlotte, North Carolina 28208-3706, reopened as Harvey's Supermarket #5444 on Wednesday, 20 July 2016. The store had been in the process of closing. I wonder how throwing time and money to prolong...

Opening small stores fast and cheap without service departments and essentials did not fail in Texas alone. Ahold Delhaize needs to seriously learn into operating quality supermarkets with less square footage should it make necessary changes with Food Lion. I don't think the merger was done with th...

It is now mid-2016, and how many "upscale" stores has Winn-Dixie actually done? http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2016/02/05/as-plain-vanilla-grocery-stores-fall-out-of-favor.html Most of the news out of Winn-Dixie seem to be on expansion of the Harveys concept. To me, this screams ...

The lack of stores in Utah creates a massive "hole" in the combined company's geography. I am sure they would love to buy the stores there back that they sold. But I can guarantee you those stores, owned and operated by Associated Food Stores, are not for sale. A number of the stores have...

Bright Green is a Safeway brand but isn't even as extensive as A&P's Green Way was (which included food and non-food products, something I found a bit off-putting). Even during the heavy promotion of Signature when it was first released didn't bring up Bright Green, instead similar national bran...

I doubt any supermarket would want to relegate itself to having low volume stores with limited service departments, limited labor, and extra high prices. Sadly, that is what Food Lion has become. That ship has failed and has sunk. Ahold's personnel should bring in fresh, necessary ideas to turn aro...

I wonder what will happen. Safeway Canada was very viable and very profitable. Wal Mart and Home Depot seem to do okay in Canada and the Wal Mart Supercenters up there are quite similar to the ones in the US. Loblaws "Real Canadian Superstore" is VERY similar to a Kroger Marketplace in it...

If Save Mart really wanted to invest in a new redesign of the company, then they should've picked something other than "Save Mart", since I get the impression that it really isn't that more inexpensive than its competition (Raley's at least, since Safeway seems to have a penchant for high...

What's the progress on converting the Minyard stores? The newspapers suggest "over the next two months", which indicates it would be a slow process as they phase in Fiesta systems and products. I know that when Fiesta bought a handful of AppleTree locations (former Safeway/Weingarten stor...