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IGA Stores
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GMJim »
February 15th, 2025, 10:34 pm
I worked for an IGA store(s) for a number of years way back when. How are they doing these days? Are the expanding in the US? Overseas? The company I...
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Yesterday, 2:44 pm
Kroger Layoffs
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storewanderer »
February 11th, 2025, 12:59 am
Story says it is mostly consultants who were working on projects being cut.
I'd like to see them cut the logo change, the current private label...
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February 13th, 2025, 8:39 pm
Quit printing pennies
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storewanderer »
February 10th, 2025, 12:22 am
It appears they are going to possibly quit printing pennies.
While I am not sure if it is legal to go about doing this through the means being...
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February 10th, 2025, 9:41 pm
Grocery retailers cleaning display cases?
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cjd »
January 17th, 2025, 7:01 pm
Is this something that most grocery retailers do regularly? Emptying and flushing the refrigerated cases?
I’ve heard it’s Walmart’s policy to clean...
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February 7th, 2025, 10:09 pm
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January 30th, 2025, 6:41 am
Albertsons Earning Report
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pseudo3d »
January 8th, 2025, 2:26 pm
In the past 48 hours or so, Albertsons has come out with some positive earnings, notably different than the dire warnings that they cried about...
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January 28th, 2025, 11:18 pm
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January 24th, 2025, 12:36 am
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January 22nd, 2025, 11:35 pm
Self Checkout
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veteran+ »
January 8th, 2025, 4:19 pm
I've been saying this for years since my adventures at Fresh & Easy.
But what do I know 🤷♂️
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January 22nd, 2025, 9:48 am
Dollar Stores
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veteran+ »
November 20th, 2023, 7:41 am
For those of you who follow John Oliver ......................
He devoted a large portion of his show on the above....................
Hysterical...
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January 20th, 2025, 8:54 am
Supermarket Predictions 2025
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pseudo3d »
January 2nd, 2025, 4:11 pm
What big things do you predict will shake up the supermarket industry this year?
Here's mine:
- UNFI will put itself on the sale block, possibly...
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January 14th, 2025, 12:56 am
Bagging/package help at supermarkets
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cjd »
December 8th, 2024, 7:32 pm
Is it common for grocery store baggers to offer to push the cart/help a customer unload the groceries?
Publix used to always offer this service, it...
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January 12th, 2025, 7:33 am
Grocery store cigarette sales
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cjd »
October 27th, 2024, 7:40 pm
With CVS stopping cigarette sales a decade ago now I thought Walgreens and other retailers would stop sales but that never happened.
I’m surprised...
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January 8th, 2025, 8:30 pm
UNFI- Trouble?
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storewanderer »
June 18th, 2024, 6:49 pm
This would not surprise me. On the former Supervalu side they have had a lot of loss of customers in OR/WA to URM and a few to C&S. In SoCal they...
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January 8th, 2025, 2:23 pm
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January 8th, 2025, 11:29 am
Open Carry
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storewanderer »
December 22nd, 2024, 11:29 pm
Over the weekend I saw three different customers open carrying in stores around Reno. All were male customers. One was in the mall where I am pretty...
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December 27th, 2024, 6:41 pm
Egg Shortage
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storewanderer »
December 22nd, 2024, 10:11 pm
What is this Egg Shortage? I bought 2 dozen of eggs at Wal Mart for 2.78 per dozen early last week here in Reno. I thought that was pretty good....
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Last post by storewanderer
December 25th, 2024, 8:53 pm
How do stores pick which lane to open?
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cjd »
November 27th, 2024, 3:26 pm
I notice stores don’t always open the same checkout lane nor the same lanes closed, and don’t necessarily have adjacent lanes open.
How does it...
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Last post by ClownLoach
December 24th, 2024, 10:50 am
Continuing Aldi discussion
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pseudo3d »
December 23rd, 2024, 10:24 am
Some of this was answered before the thread was locked, but I wanted to continue the Aldi discussion at the tail-end of the Albertsons/Safeway merger...
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December 24th, 2024, 8:09 am
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December 22nd, 2024, 11:53 am
Cooking area/equipment in supermarkets
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cjd »
December 8th, 2024, 5:38 am
Most supermarkets in my area offer fried and rotisserie chicken in the deli.
When Publix had the old store here, the cooking area was right behind...
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December 18th, 2024, 4:07 pm
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December 15th, 2024, 9:41 pm
"Sandwich Bar" self serve
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storewanderer »
December 8th, 2024, 12:44 am
Anyone seen this before in a grocery store?
A fixture for salad bar. Now one side of it is salad bar and one side of it is sandwich bar....
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Last post by BillyGr
December 12th, 2024, 5:34 pm
Fresh Turkey
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storewanderer »
November 28th, 2024, 1:24 am
Do stores in other areas have a glut of Fresh Whole Turkey or is it just something happening in my area?
At stores I went out to today, Smiths had...
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December 11th, 2024, 11:29 pm
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