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A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

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Re: A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

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Post by JohnFen »

mrweasel wrote: post #7

I 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…

> Online shopping for groceries currently doesn't work, shipping is to expensive, unless you only shop once a week...

I tried out Amazon's grocery offering out of curiosity. What made me realize that it wasn't for me was the large boxes that ended up on my doorstep. It was embarrassing and seemed really wasteful to me.

Re: A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

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Post by diminoten »

notfromhere wrote: post #25
diminoten wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, right up until Walmart builds a Neighborhood Market a block away...

They tried that in Chicago, Wal Mart pulled out like three years ago. The real threat would be an Aldi, since those guys are cheaper and have a fantastic selection.

You think they gave up? Heh ..

Re: A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

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Post by diminoten »

max76 wrote: post #13
diminoten wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, right up until Walmart builds a Neighborhood Market a block away...

That's a fight we have fought before and won. I'm confident we can fight it again.

Who's "we"? Thousands of people have lost this fight, it's like one of the big negatives about a Walmart being built nearby...

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Post by sytelus »

Article is about food produce stores, not typical grocery stores that small town have. I think food produce stores are relatively safe still, Amazon Fresh lacks choice, no free delivery and have higher prices. They have to deal with fundamental problem of everything must go before it expires and that prevents offering long tail choice.

However small town grocery stores which sell everything from toothpaste to cereals are in big trouble, I have watched 2 of them getting closed because of lack of customers. A big issue is also lack of smart software that can guide inventory decisions. They usually have ton of things that doesn’t fly off the shelves while customers getting disappointed with not finding things. You would expect these stores to have optimization software that identifies losers and replaces it with better options but they don’t. I would see them consistently run out of some product every Wednesday and not getting it replenished for rest of the week. I would think their software would detect this and get that item more but that would never happen!

They can probably still stay alive if they had smarter software.

Re: A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

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Post by EADGBE »

sjg007 wrote: post #43

Grocery is going in two directions: aldi and then Whole Foods/HyVee. Short order meal prep is where the real money is.. the UK specifically London is a prime example.

Do you mention HyVee because of the midwest location of it, or a general employee-owned supermarket/restaurant/prep meal aspect?

Re: A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

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Post by overcast »

EADGBE wrote: post #48
overcast wrote: post #31

I'm sorry for all of you that do not have a Wegmans.

I'm sorry for everyone that doesn't have a Price Chopper.

You poor soul. I grew up with Price Chopper in my hometown, and found the holy grail in Wegmans when I moved out for college/employment. Wegmans is leagues above them still today.

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overcast wrote: post #49
EADGBE wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry for everyone that doesn't have a Price Chopper.

You poor soul. I grew up with Price Chopper in my hometown, and found the holy grail in Wegmans when I moved out for college/employment. Wegmans is leagues above them still today.

I suppose if I wanted a fancy, overpriced grocery shopping experience I could also stroll down to HyVee...

This was honestly a dig at leaving no evidence of why Wegmans was better. I'm sure it is.

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