The Anaheim location is at Ball/Anaheim Blvd. I believe you’re correct - it is a former Pep Boys. The location was closed, gutted and rebuilt. It now features Walmart Blue instead of the Neighborhood Green, and the sign says Walmart Anaheim Neighborhood Market. It features a lot more general merchandise and Hispanic groceries than previously.ClownLoach wrote: ↑January 26th, 2023, 1:47 pmI'm sure Walmart culled any unprofitable neighborhood market stores already. If it's still open it is either a barnburner of sales that would not transfer to a nearby full line supercenter, or a low rent/owned building. The busiest stores I am familiar with are in areas Walmart simply can't build a large store in. There are a couple of cases where the Walmart Neighborhood Market is across the street/freeway from a standard Walmart that has no room for expansion or regulations against it. I do know of one California Neighborhood Market that does more sales volume than the regular Walmart across the highway.Bagels wrote: ↑January 26th, 2023, 12:20 pmI don't venture into too many Neighborhood Markets, but the Anaheim (ex-Ralphs) and Huntington Beach (I think it was previously a drug store) locations are generally massively crowded. And both are nearby large format stores. Looks like Walmart's cramming more general merchandise in these stores as they renovate them...veteran+ wrote: ↑January 26th, 2023, 9:44 am Which Walmart Neighborhood stores are you talking about?
I have never noticed very much traffic at any of these stores.
The last one I had been to was the one in Rancho Mirage and it was never busy. I am surprised it is still open, especially in that area.
In comparison, a flagship Albertsons is just 1.5 miles up Beach Blvd., in a much nicer & more vibrant shopping center, and it's always a ghost town when I'm in there...
My personal favorite is still Santa Maria where there is a full size regular Walmart that shares a wall with a full size Walmart Neighborhood Market due to restrictions that were intended to prevent construction of a Supercenter. At some point the city might as well end the charade and let them tear down the wall to make it one store. It reminds me of the states where the liquor department has to be in a separate suite attached to the store itself, but it's all the food instead.
Curious about the Anaheim stores mentioned. Anaheim had 3, two were ex-Pep Boys locations and one was a former Asian supermarket. The one on Euclid across from Food4Less closed a year or two ago. I'm not familiar with one that was a Ralphs. I know the one on Beach Blvd. had a Ralphs across the street many years ago in the center that sat boarded up for 20+ years before becoming a food hall and fitness place. Huntington Beach was a large Thrifty that Rite Aid didn't keep for long, it was enlarged to absorb most of the adjacent strip mall. The Beach Blvd Albertsons mentioned was a Skaggs Alpha Beta at some point in time. There is a larger, newly remodeled Albertsons built to be a Lucky Savon combo a mile west along with a nice Ralphs Fresh Fare. I'm not sure which will get divested but I'm sure the Beach Blvd Albertsons will be the preferred store to go to Spinco. It is a nice store but I expect it to meet the bulldozer and be replaced by either an expansion of the medical facility next door or high density apartments like the ones that went up across the street.
I’m sure is a concept format but the store must do well to receive that level of a makeover l.