The Reno IGA is now open in the former Food Source. It opened yesterday and is open 8 AM to 8 PM. They have no sign on the building (only a banner).
I went into the store late afternoon today. There were two employees total in the entire 60k square foot store. About 50% of the shelves are filled. Bakery/deli/meat are not yet open. Empty cases with signs saying these come next week. Produce is open and somehow already had piles of zucchini that was limp and rotten (how... on the second day of being open...?).
Center store is C&S supplied. They kept what was left from Food Source and integrated it into their sets so some Essential Everyday items were present but did not see any Raleys brand stuff so I guess that all got pulled. IGA and Best Yet brand present in identical items on various categories. Repetitive and does not really make sense. Pricing is all over the map, mostly not very good. Did not see any sales on anything in center store, or if items were on sale they had the same shelf tags as the regular price items. 30oz Best Foods Mayonnaise 7.79 but the BY/IGA ones only 2.69. 4lb IGA/BY Sugar 4.39 and C&H 4.59. Barilla pasta varied in price by type ranging from 1 cent (Ziti- shelf was empty) to 1.79, most at 1.48. Best Yet Shredded Cheese in refrigerator area various prices 1.99 (Parmesan- usually the more expensive flavor) to 2.39.
As far as the dairy- they only have a small facing of milk from Model Dairy with half gallons at 2.99 and gallons at 4.99. They had one SKU of dozen eggs at 1.98 and 4 total SKUs of yogurt. There was some butter and a few SKUs of some gallons of juice but other than that the back wall for dairy was like 15% stocked, little to no lunchmeat, cookie dough/biscuit, etc.
The few other customers in the store seemed really confused walking around the store. No music playing.
As for DSD they had a big wall space for bread but signs say more bread coming next week. So far the only bread they had was about 4 feet worth of "Franco" (local) bread. No Bibmo or Flowers product, no private label. Basically no liquor yet either. The only soda was Coke or some off brand stuff. For Chips they just had Pringles and Kettle. It is like they did not get set up with the DSDs.
Observed issues at checkout with other customers over pricing. Unit of measure is all screwed up on produce- some items that should be by the pound are ringing by the each and items that should be sold by the each and need to have a quantity prompt do not have a quantity prompt so the cashier is just putting through a whole bag of an item that should be "each" and charging the price for one unit.
Also the checkout continues to be self bagging like Food Source was. I've never seen an IGA where the customer has to bag their own groceries. They had paper bags or California compliant 2.25 reusable bags - no thin bags. Guess C&S can't get them any of those so the store will just have higher bag costs. Scolaris uses C&S and can get thin bags so not sure what the issue with this place is or if they are just being ripped off by the supplier.
I get it is only their second day, they are not completely stocked, etc. But you only get one chance to make a first impression. A more involved wholesaler like Associated could have put together a really good store here and had it that way on day one. And would have gotten the point of sale programmed so it was collecting the amount it should be collecting from the customer and not giving produce away due to improper programming. And gotten a nice ad together for them to run and draw in customers (see:
http://midwaymarket.com/ or
https://khourysmarket.com/weeklyAd or
https://roysmkt.com/ )...........
It will be really interesting to see how this goes. They've been closed for two months. They probably should have tried to get Food Source when it was in a more "operating" state, transition it to C&S, and not stay closed for two months.