Fears grow over 'food swamps' as drugstores outsell major grocers
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Re: Fears grow over 'food swamps' as drugstores outsell major grocers
#2Why would we combine Whole Foods and Trader Joe's? Whew, at least it's not bigger than Target and Walgreens combined though! It is however about 40% the size of Kroger... so there is that.
Re: Fears grow over 'food swamps' as drugstores outsell major grocers
#3Yeah, and at higher prices. CVS is high on the list of Fortune 100 companies for good reason.
Re: Fears grow over 'food swamps' as drugstores outsell major grocers
#4Why would we combine Whole Foods and Trader Joe's? Whew, at least it's not bigger than Target and Walgreens combined though! It is however about 40% the size of Kroger... so there is that.
Whole Foods and Trader Joes aim at a similar demographic. It is an odd combination though that is clearly just there to provide for the article.
Re: Fears grow over 'food swamps' as drugstores outsell major grocers
#5Why would we combine Whole Foods and Trader Joe's? Whew, at least it's not bigger than Target and Walgreens combined though! It is however about 40% the size of Kroger... so there is that.
Yeah I'm honestly not sure why people would be surprised at this comparison - Whole Foods and Trader Joe's are specialty stores. Nobody goes into them just to buy a head of lettuce.
Trader Joe's has their own in-store brands for tons of products, which has spawned various guides on what should/shouldn't be bough there (https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/save-money/what-to-buy-at-tr... for example). CVS, on the other hand, is a far more general store. They both sell food, but they're not in the same market segment - so the comparison is strange.
Re: Fears grow over 'food swamps' as drugstores outsell major grocers
#6Why would we combine Whole Foods and Trader Joe's? Whew, at least it's not bigger than Target and Walgreens combined though! It is however about 40% the size of Kroger... so there is that.
Yeah I'm honestly not sure why people would be surprised at this comparison - Whole Foods and Trader Joe's are specialty stores. Nobody goes into them just to buy a head of lettuce. Trader Joe's has their own in-store brands for tons of products, which has spawned various guides on what should/shouldn't be bough there ( https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/save-money/what-to-buy-at-tr... for example). CVS, on the other ha…
I know a lot of people who do all their shopping at Trader Joe’s.
Re: Fears grow over 'food swamps' as drugstores outsell major grocers
#7I almost always go to CVS when I need to get a few small items in a hurry (I usually use Amazon Fresh for groceries), so I'm not surprised about this at all. Going to CSV is much easier than fighting the crowd at Walmart since there's only a handful of people there at any given time.
Re: Fears grow over 'food swamps' as drugstores outsell major grocers
#8Why would we combine Whole Foods and Trader Joe's? Whew, at least it's not bigger than Target and Walgreens combined though! It is however about 40% the size of Kroger... so there is that.
Yeah I'm honestly not sure why people would be surprised at this comparison - Whole Foods and Trader Joe's are specialty stores. Nobody goes into them just to buy a head of lettuce. Trader Joe's has their own in-store brands for tons of products, which has spawned various guides on what should/shouldn't be bough there ( https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/save-money/what-to-buy-at-tr... for example). CVS, on the other ha…
I don't live in the US, but I've been to Whole Foods when visiting and certainly felt like a perfectly normal grocery store, not too different from most other grocery stores I've been to. What makes it a specialty store and why wouldn't you go there to buy a head of lettuce?
Re: Fears grow over 'food swamps' as drugstores outsell major grocers
#9That's a pity, because doing grocery shopping at CVS is like doing grocery shopping at a gas station / convenience mart: there's a $1-3 markup on damn near everything. And I imagine the people that are forced to shop at a drugstore are probably poor to begin with, so, that hits them even worse.
Re: Fears grow over 'food swamps' as drugstores outsell major grocers
#10Why would we combine Whole Foods and Trader Joe's? Whew, at least it's not bigger than Target and Walgreens combined though! It is however about 40% the size of Kroger... so there is that.
Yeah I'm honestly not sure why people would be surprised at this comparison - Whole Foods and Trader Joe's are specialty stores. Nobody goes into them just to buy a head of lettuce. Trader Joe's has their own in-store brands for tons of products, which has spawned various guides on what should/shouldn't be bough there ( https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/save-money/what-to-buy-at-tr... for example). CVS, on the other ha…
Does CVS have lettuce?