A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
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#2Elorant, what is the one short paragraph summary of this article, please?
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#3Article has a confusing title, it not about saving your small local neighborhood store. It is about how supermarkets can compete with Amazon, Walmart and online. His idea sounds a lot like Whole Foods, and not a neighborhood store.
The store that resulted is called Harvest Market, which opened in 2016. It’s south of downtown Champaign, Illinois, out by the car dealerships and strip malls; 58,000 square feet of floor space mostly housed inside a huge, high-ceilinged glass barn.
Harvest Market is the anti-Amazon. It’s designed to excel at what e-commerce can’t do: convene people over the mouth-watering appeal of prize ingredients and freshly prepared food.
Since Amazon is Whole Foods, it doesn't sound at all like the anti-Amazon.
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#4I grew up in the town Niemann Foods, Incorporated is headquartered in.
If anything, this strikes me as a response to Hy-Vee's continued growth. Much of Harvest Market takes aims at design themes Hy-Vee has bee pushing for a decade now.
I wish NFI luck but given their struggles in their home market, I'm not sure this is the Hail Mary they need.
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#5Elorant, what is the one short paragraph summary of this article, please?
Heh. It's a longreads.com article, which should be a hint.
Basically it's about marketing firms trying to convince supermarket owners that inefficient layout and cute themes will save the day. All sorts of stuff is to be feared: millennials who prefer restaurants or Amazon (and won't age out of it by starting families), the giant Walmart monster, etc.
So make the customers zig-zag around a store, kind of like shopping at JCPenny or Macy's, or maybe even a casino. Take up space with weird stuff, like corrugated steel around the milk to evoke farm nostalgia. Create a mock up of an urban deli, complete with an awning that is hopefully useless under the supermarket's roof.
Evidently people like me are undesirable customers, because I hate all that stuff.
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#6I love this sentence from the article: “I make my living convincing male skeptics of the power of emotions,” he says.
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#7I live in a small town/village that has just had it's grocery store reopen after it being closed for five years. Based on my experience I don't see any need to radically rethink grocery store, people just need to experience shopping at a small store again.
It's not for everyone, the selection is going to be more limited, but it's so much faster and cheaper. We save around 20 - 25% buy shopping locally, there's simply less random items that go into the cart. While the large supermarkets have 5 minute lines and getting around results in shopping taking at least 30 minutes, the small grocery store reduces our once a week shopping trip to 10 minutes. Generally shopping at the large supermarkets have become extremely stressful, perhaps it always was, but now I know there's a better solution... And it's not online.
Online shopping for groceries currently doesn't work, shipping is to expensive, unless you only shop once a week... I do, but then they don't give me items that will last more than a few days. What am I suppose to do with 5L of milk that only last until Wednesday?
After having tried a small local grocery store I'm not sure I want to go back to the supermarkets.
Re: A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
#8Article has a confusing title, it not about saving your small local neighborhood store. It is about how supermarkets can compete with Amazon, Walmart and online. His idea sounds a lot like Whole Foods, and not a neighborhood store. The store that resulted is called Harvest Market, which opened in 2016. It’s south of downtown Champaign, Illinois, out by the car dealerships and strip malls; 58,000 square feet of floor…
Exactly. I like the idea of "traditional American supermarket" for the irony content.
When I was a youngin', our town didn't have any chain stores, just a dozen or so family markets.
I miss the culture and environment, not so much the lack of selection. Since then, it's hard to take sides in a Safeway vs Walmart vs Amazon brawl.
The first chain fast food (aside from the ubiquitous Dairy Queen) came somewhat later. That's a thing I think we could do without.
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#9I live in a dense urban area.
I'd consider my neighborhood grocery stores to be the 5,000-10,000sqfoot places scattered around the area so no home within a three mile radius is more than a 10 minute walk to one. They survive just fine by being cheaper than Amazon Fresh and significantly more convenient than the Walmart/Costco that exist on the outskirts of the city.
Re: A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
#10I live in a dense urban area. I'd consider my neighborhood grocery stores to be the 5,000-10,000sqfoot places scattered around the area so no home within a three mile radius is more than a 10 minute walk to one. They survive just fine by being cheaper than Amazon Fresh and significantly more convenient than the Walmart/Costco that exist on the outskirts of the city.
Sure, right up until Walmart builds a Neighborhood Market a block away...