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by Bakeragr
February 6th, 2021, 7:45 am
Forum: Midwest & Plains USA
Topic: Midwest Territory Expansion
Replies: 23
Views: 12319

Re: Midwest Territory Expansion

I live in Missouri, closer to St. Louis than Kansas City. I see Hy-Vee expanding more to fill in places in their existing footprint, and may eventually cover more of outstate Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri. I do not see them entering St. Louis simply because Schnucks and to a greater ex...
by Bakeragr
February 6th, 2021, 7:32 am
Forum: Midwest & Plains USA
Topic: Hy-Vee: The "Haggen" of the Midwest?
Replies: 16
Views: 13101

Re: Hy-Vee: The "Haggen" of the Midwest?

Hy-Vee still operates lots of rural stores in Iowa and Northern Missouri. They've also added some in other towns here recently, experimenting with a format called "Hy-Vee Dollar Fresh" that has gone into closed ShopKo/Pamida locations in the last year or so. I've not been to one, but I app...
by Bakeragr
February 4th, 2021, 7:40 am
Forum: Midwest & Plains USA
Topic: Kroger closing: Nokomis, IL
Replies: 28
Views: 11384

Re: Kroger closing: Nokomis, IL

It seems like the Kroger Central division, in my experience, keeps these small-town locations open as long as they can until it requires them to do some updating. They run these stores until the wheels fall off. Literally. There's only two Kroger Central locations left in Missouri, on the west side ...
by Bakeragr
January 29th, 2021, 9:59 am
Forum: Midwest & Plains USA
Topic: Closing Schnucks
Replies: 7
Views: 3700

Re: Closing Schnucks

The store they are closing is about one block away from an existing Schnucks (former Kroger, then National) and two additional Schnucks are less than two miles away. This SNS location was large, but kind of a dump. Not surprised it is getting closed. Schnucks bought Shop ‘N Save as a defensive move....
by Bakeragr
October 27th, 2020, 7:57 pm
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: Kroger "big announcement coming" on branding
Replies: 76
Views: 26995

Re: Kroger "big announcement coming" on branding

Songs like this are used in commercials all of the time. I don’t see that it’s an issue. Honestly, I thought it was sort of catchy. To each their own, I guess.
by Bakeragr
September 17th, 2020, 9:55 pm
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: Retail design trends
Replies: 44
Views: 13307

Re: Retail design trends

I think every Dierberg’s store in the chain (St. Louis and Lake of the Ozarks) has terrazzo floors and they always look great.
by Bakeragr
June 19th, 2020, 7:24 am
Forum: Midwest & Plains USA
Topic: Schnucks Bettendorf IA closing
Replies: 13
Views: 7743

Re: Schnucks Bettendorf IA closing

storewanderer wrote: June 18th, 2020, 11:33 pm Where else does Albertsons go against Hy Vee than in this market, anyway?
Sycamore, Peoria and Bloomington, IL. Schnucks is in all three, too.
by Bakeragr
June 17th, 2020, 7:55 pm
Forum: Midwest & Plains USA
Topic: Schnucks Bettendorf IA closing
Replies: 13
Views: 7743

Re: Schnucks Bettendorf IA closing

Sometimes Schnucks makes weird development decisions. They invested a lot into the Memphis market ten years ago and then just bailed on it and likely sold everything to Kroger at a loss, but getting Kroger to leave the Rockford, IL market in trade. I’m thinking that they expected to have better succ...
by Bakeragr
May 20th, 2020, 7:58 pm
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: Private label products being sold at other chains
Replies: 65
Views: 22589

Re: Private label products being sold at other chains

Maybe it’s been longer than I realize, but you used to find President’s Choice items at Hy-Vee. I am guessing maybe 7-8 years ago?
by Bakeragr
February 6th, 2020, 6:23 am
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: Kroger divests interest in Lucky's Market
Replies: 28
Views: 9539

Re: Kroger divests interest in Lucky's Market

On Kroger’s corporate site, they have information detailing the states they have a presence in and what divisions cover which states. This map of their divisions is provided. Kind of interesting, they list Lucky’s as a division and have them shown for Florida. This is about the only time I’ve seen L...