I think not opening 4130 Douglas may have turned out to be a good idea. Supposedly the Albertsons there was relatively profitable (tough to imagine how; it had the 80's interior like the old Greenback/San Juan Store did), Ralphs was a total flop upon conversion then Ralphs did their upscale remodel to the store and the remodel was very successful and it ended up being one of the top 5 volume Ralphs in NorCal (Grass Valley was always the top volume one) for a couple years until the new Safeway opened across the street which by any measure is a very nice Safeway (Genuardi's layout) and that was death for the Ralphs. Then Grocery Outlet moved into part of the Ralphs but not for long though I am not sure what the circumstances on that were. Wal Mart Neighborhood Market has the entire old Ralphs space and doesn't seem to do great there but has somewhat steady traffic (I'd be surprised if it does much more volume than Ralphs was doing at the end, but has a far lower expense structure). Albertsons supposedly owned the lot behind the store in 1999 and wanted to build a new store there but obviously that never happened and probably wouldn't have been a great idea.norcalriteaidclerk wrote: ↑October 4th, 2022, 4:31 pm
Rocklin granite drive was Payless as far back as at least 1984 while the parent center (Rocklin square)dates from at least 1981 as the Safeway originally had signage predating the ribbon leaf era(it has received a lifestyle remodel though I can't speak for whether it still has that decor package).
Granite Bay/4130 Douglas never opened.It was planned to be a Payless Drug hybrid store by Thrifty Payless (with the same format 5409 sunrise had as a Payless),but it was mothballed by RAD which obviously opted for the freestanding store strategy.The elk Grove Florin/calvine site in the then not yet built Safeway center was similarly mothballed (Long's ended up being the drugstore in that center)in favor for the site across the street that became 8368 elk Grove Florin (opened 2000 but despite getting a wellness 2.0 remodel sadly closed in February 2019 and blasphemously converted into a dollar tree).The south Davis site planned in the Safeway center there did open as RAD and remains open.
Also,self checkout remains rare with the Sacramento stores:based on receipts involved with out of area returns my store has processed,only Rancho Cordova and Rosemont are known to have self-checkouts.
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The closure at Auburn Folsom/Douglas I also wonder about. That shopping center strikes me as a somewhat odd the mix of tenants present and why the grocery and drugstore both left in the 90's. I think Jumbo went under or something but Vic's IGA assumed some of those as I recall and that is a great location there... Maybe the landlord did not want a grocery and drugstore tenant mix there for some reason. That seems like it should have been a viable location for Thrifty.
Only store I know of with self checkout is South Lake Tahoe and they got them due to heavy complaints about line length/1 cashier (that is no longer an issue since traffic in the store is so low). Truckee would have also been a great candidate for self checkout but Truckee back when it had employees would often have 3 cashiers and sometimes 1 cashier would work on two registers at the same time.