I went into a Dollar Tree last night and while it looked closed due to having half of its lights out, it was actually open. No store hours posted on the doors and hardly any customers there (usually this is pretty busy). Even the checkstand open light was not turned on (employee was standing there the whole time though).
We were notified in Reno to limit power usage from 3 PM to 9 PM and that there was a risk of blackouts.
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Re: Rolling Blackouts Hit California For First Time Since 2011
Was it really about lighting usage? I thought the whole idea behind Lifestyle was an attempt to make the stores more "upscale" to stand out against the competition, which was justified as their acquired divisions were struggling by that point. (I might be able to pull some articles to support that).storewanderer wrote: ↑August 16th, 2020, 8:56 pmThe dark Safeway lifestyle stores accomplished a similar effort to reduce lighting usage with the dark lights around the perimeter.
Also, it's hard to do this just on text but assume I did air quotes with the word "upscale".
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It is part of the ROI. You do a remodel and reduce light usage and that reduced expense is part of your ROI analysis for the remodel. Similar to when you pull out 30 year old refrigeration and install new more energy efficient refrigeration, same type of idea there is an ROI study done to see how the numbers work out. Remember Steve Burd was an expert at expense control. The mood lighting may have accomplished a more upscale look but it also accomplished an expense cut on power usage.pseudo3d wrote: ↑August 20th, 2020, 3:51 am
Was it really about lighting usage? I thought the whole idea behind Lifestyle was an attempt to make the stores more "upscale" to stand out against the competition, which was justified as their acquired divisions were struggling by that point. (I might be able to pull some articles to support that).
Also, it's hard to do this just on text but assume I did air quotes with the word "upscale".
The new lights Albertsons has installed look painful- it hurts my eyes when I walk into the local stores with the "lighting upgrade" as they only did it around the perimeter and kept the old Safeway brighter lights in the grocery aisles.
Re: Rolling Blackouts Hit California For First Time Since 2011
The problem then was bigger than just turning lights off. Like any organization... whether it be a company, government or other entity... is that if you put a leader in charge that has no relative experience in that industry or field, who failed as a leader in whatever that person was doing before, and has no common sense... they will fail and take everyone else down with them.
Such was the case with Albertson's in the early 2000's. They appointed a CEO who didn't have an impressive track record when he was with his former employer, knew nothing about the industry and was clueless about what to do. He got played by adversaries (IE: SoCal strike that was part of Safeway's strategy that they were not planning for). I remember shopping in their stores in that era. The stores were dark and dirty. Managers only scheduled properly for the time when they were actually there because there was no supervision from corporate. At night there would only be one cashier and lines to the back of the store. Remember, it was so bad they decided to break up the company because they didn't know how to fix it.
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Re: Rolling Blackouts Hit California For First Time Since 2011
Now let's be fair here-I mean the guy came from a company that sold light bulbs so maybe they figured that was enough
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Re: Rolling Blackouts Hit California For First Time Since 2011
I actually thought the Albertsons run by Larry was better than the Albertsons run by Supervalu... both were pretty bad.klkla wrote: ↑August 20th, 2020, 8:51 pm
Such was the case with Albertson's in the early 2000's. They appointed a CEO who didn't have an impressive track record when he was with his former employer, knew nothing about the industry and was clueless about what to do. He got played by adversaries (IE: SoCal strike that was part of Safeway's strategy that they were not planning for). I remember shopping in their stores in that era. The stores were dark and dirty. Managers only scheduled properly for the time when they were actually there because there was no supervision from corporate. At night there would only be one cashier and lines to the back of the store. Remember, it was so bad they decided to break up the company because they didn't know how to fix it.
At the time the people at Albertsons were justifying the hire of a non-grocery executive by saying these executives are trained to be able to manage effectively across industries. It didn't help that the CEO before Larry also did not make the right strategic moves with the chain.
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