The Super Market News published an article yesterday claiming that 2/3 of the respondents to a recent survey indicated that they’re planning on replenishing their stock piles. Among the most desired items included sanitizing and soap products. So maybe this move is premature? I recall in January when, for example, the Mexican toilet paper went from 10c a roll back to its regular $1 price.
storewanderer wrote: ↑August 5th, 2021, 6:46 pm
CalItalian wrote: ↑August 5th, 2021, 11:39 am
SoCal Vons & Albertsons are currently discontinuing a lot of products (see red tags in store) in every department - especially spirits and detergent & other cleaning products (I suspect a lot of product downsizing in that aisle). I've never seen so many at one time.
Same is going on at NorCal Safeway in cleaning. Frozen aisle is really being gutted too, ton of clearance tags. Entire Signature Select frozen meal line got discontinued, granted it had been shrinking for years.
I think this may have something to do with Albertsons recent move to centralize center store buying.
I’ve noticed the clearance tags too, but I don’t think it has anything to do with centralized buying as most of the items are private label. I suspect that Albertsons is changing suppliers for many of these products, and probably some - like the frozen entrees - will be discontinued. I will definitely miss the frozen entrees - IMO, they were among the best values in the store (they were nearly always on sale at $1.50). As you mentioned, there’s few products left in the line-up, and most other chains discontinued their private label versions, so it’s not entirely surprising. I read not long that sales of frozen goods had dropped such that Kroger was removing a row of freezers as they renovated stores. Quite a change from 15-20 years ago, when they were growing so fast Kroger and everyone else was adding rows!
I also noticed that Albertsons/Vons are marking many items with a tag that says “compare our every day low price” … which is a joke, given that we can now see the competition’s lower price on our phones
. Ralphs recently slashed the prices on a large number of groceries, which o found interesting. Probably had a lot to do with declining market share to Albertsons/Vons and Stater Bros in the last year.