That's really quite sad. Millions of MAGAs under the spell and easily forgotten are the friends and family that are impacted.
Des Moines sucks!
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That's really quite sad. Millions of MAGAs under the spell and easily forgotten are the friends and family that are impacted.
They need to bring back those "Des Moines sucks!" shirts from a couple decades back.
Downtown Hy-Vee reduces hours, cites crime and loitering as reasons why
Downtown Hy-Vee reduces hours, cites crime and loitering as reasons why
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Hy-Vee grocery store in downtown Des Moines is scaling back its hours due to crime, loitering, and a lack of foot traffic. While many people were surprised to see the s…who13.com
In what dying small town do you live?
I lost my s*** this morning at the gym. The woman leading a fitness class started talking about kids using litter boxes at school. I used the word BS repeatedly, she kept insisting that her friend that "works at a school", says it's true. She asked me if her friend was lying, and I said yes, or she's a moron who didn't actually see anything, and was just spreading lies. I told her I'd give her $1000 if she could take me to this school and show me the litter boxes.
People are so freaking dumb. Seems like something Northern would believe.
It was, and if you ate at the Coralville Chilis between 2009 - 2012 you were likely served by one of these degens.
The gerbil shots? Oh yeah.
If they weren't doing gerbil shots, they would just rip hawkeye and chase it with something preferable. I'll give them credit, it was a cheap way to get a head start before the bars.
Wife buys Hawkeye for the kitchen. She uses it to make vanilla extract.
She knows if she bought the good stuff it would probably evaporate in the cupboard.
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I was a manager for HyVee for many years. They have made terrible decisions since Randy Edecker took over. He has left it a mess. I hated my last couple of years working there.
The helpful smiles, in every aisle, have left the premises.
Is this a thread about DM sucking, Hy Vee or some of your terrible drinking habits?
Don’t get me started on the ones that get political. You all suck worse than DM. I’ll take it over any city or town the rest of you live in or near.
Don’t get me started on the ones that get political. You all suck worse than DM. I’ll take it over any city or town the rest of you live in or near.
Just visited the ole downtown Hy-Vee again (told you I suck at planning, forgot to buy wings yesterday for the games this evening). You'll be happy to know I was able to avoid the horde of marijuanas induced psychosis homeless people. I tricked them by tossing a slice of sausage and pepperoni over their heads to distract them, then once I got by I dumped out a bag of tropical skittles to cover my tracks. They either slipped on the skittles or couldn't resist eating them. They almost caught me while I was struggling to open the parking lot gate because **** that pole that doesn't let you pull in tight enough to scan the ticket.
I've lived downtown or in the downtown area for close to 10 years (brief hiatus from 2019-2020). The pearl clutching I hear from people who live in the suburbs or out of towners who visit downtown once a year is ****ing hilarious.
Are there some whack jobs around? Of course, but that's just downtowns in any mid to large sized metro. I've been to that downtown Hy-Vee... hundreds of times since it has opened and had maybe... 1 or 2 weird interactions with a crazy person. Keep a resting bitch face on and don't draw eye contact and people will typically just leave you alone. Anyone who is afraid of downtown Des Moines is a ****ing pansy.
Edit to add something in the article that really made me laugh. Spaghetti Works closing and citing crime as a reason for closing. Yeah, pretty sure it was because you served dogshit cafeteria Italian and there are 50 better restaurants than yours in a 2 mile radius.
I've lived downtown or in the downtown area for close to 10 years (brief hiatus from 2019-2020). The pearl clutching I hear from people who live in the suburbs or out of towners who visit downtown once a year is ****ing hilarious.
Are there some whack jobs around? Of course, but that's just downtowns in any mid to large sized metro. I've been to that downtown Hy-Vee... hundreds of times since it has opened and had maybe... 1 or 2 weird interactions with a crazy person. Keep a resting bitch face on and don't draw eye contact and people will typically just leave you alone. Anyone who is afraid of downtown Des Moines is a ****ing pansy.
Edit to add something in the article that really made me laugh. Spaghetti Works closing and citing crime as a reason for closing. Yeah, pretty sure it was because you served dogshit cafeteria Italian and there are 50 better restaurants than yours in a 2 mile radius.
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Sorry to hear that. I had some relative who worked for Hy-vee back in the 90s and 00s. They loved working there and had good careers. But as you said, the last decade or so has seen the company change drastically.
I have a younger coworker who lives on Mulberry Street and she walks everywhere. We had a work event at The Surety and she walked to meet us there and then we walked to Exile for dinner and walked back to Surety and several guys did not want her walking back home by herself and she just laughed.
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I wonder if the population density being a few hundred percent lower might have SOMETHING to do with police calls also being a few hundred percent lower.
Call me crazy, but I bet it does!
No kidding? Wow! I never thought of that!
Oh wait, nevermind. That's not at all what I said. Derp. Lol
Yeah, "gender" is totally sane, based in reality, and not on self-ID whims. You're a moron.
Big difference. If your store has a shop lifter AP probably just calls one of the local cops personnel cell phones. Smaller areas police and stores have different relationships than metro areas.
Maybe Kroger needs to move to Iowa and put some pressure on Hy-Vee. I guarantee it would do better in Iowa than Hy Vee would do in Kentucky and Indiana (if their leadership was smart - which they aren't - they'd abandon the idea of setting up shop well outside their footprint, but they're dead-set on failing bigly)
They won't stop, it's hysterically funny. Incompetents (promoted from within) put in positions to make decisions, then not backing down despite little things like, you know ... math. Every sign points to Hy Vee, DONT GO THERE, and yet they keep marching on, in the mean time their over priced and overbuilt flag ships circle the drain. Why not go back to 1989 when the family that built the franchise lost control? They had a winning strategy and are now lost is a bunch of corporate ninnies' hubris. Would love to hang all this on Edicker, but it was Pearson that started the spiral and it just keeps getting worse. I vote Kroger!
I have been to Kroger, Publix, Food Lion, Winn-Dixie, Fresh Market, etc. I did not see any hamburger joints, bars, clothing sections, or shoe sections in any of them. If HyVee would dial it back 10% and just stop with that stupid crap, they are as good as any of those chains. Hopefully for the sake of lots of people employed by HyVee they get back to the fundamentals of successful grocery stores.
If you want to shop at a supermarket without having to leave Iowa, there's Fareway. Shame about Dahl's demise a few years ago, they were a solid grocer.
Shopping at HV is like shopping at a circus. They even have the damn tents out front at times.
It is something so glaringly obvious that I just assume I’m missing something. I shop the south Ankeny Hy-Vee. They don’t have clothing but have a section with bath bombs and some other stuff that I never see anyone in. I assume its either really high margin or maybe I’m missing when people are there but as others have said, stick to groceries and work on price and Hy-Vee would be fine.
Dahl's was pretty bad. At least the one in Ankeny that failed as horrible. They were somehow more expensive than HyVee with 1/4 of the people working there, and with 1/4 of the selection. It deserved to have its lunch eaten by its competitors.
Lived in VA when we had a great family run grocery called Ukrop’s. They sold out to Kroger which completely ruined the chain of Ukrop’s stores and local bakery that delivered to the stores daily.
Kroger sucks. I’ll never shop there again even if I have to go to Winn Dixie. Pubic’s (😜) all the way in the SE.
Kroger sucks. I’ll never shop there again even if I have to go to Winn Dixie. Pubic’s (😜) all the way in the SE.
Granted I haven't been to one in literally 25 years, so it might have gone downhill.
Didn't they serve central IA exclusively? Mostly DSM but maybe a couple in Ames?
That's the section they just put in the North store, which replaced the shoe section, which replaced the clothing section. At least it sells products that somewhat make sense. Frankly, if they were going to expand an area within the store, I wish it would be items you need in a kitchen. They have some trays, cake pans, and a limited assortment things which go in a kitchen. But I guess if you are a place that sells food, you could also make some money by having some kitchen aid stand mixers, a better assortment of knives and pans you'd actually want to cook with, etc.
I believe that is correct, and that there were 10 to 20 of them which are now price choppers. The Dahl's in Ankeny was just a few minutes from my house and I really wanted it to succeed. But after a while, I felt like we were grocery shopping at a convenience store, in terms of price and selection.
Aldi’s, SAMS, and Costco is the winning combination.
I go to HyVee for fresh basil and that’s about it.
I go to HyVee for fresh basil and that’s about it.
The things HyVee has that I cannot get satisfactorily elsewhere which come to mind:
- fresh herbs like basil
- some vegetables like jalapenos
- chilled salad dressings
- quality freshly sliced deli meat
- certain salsas
- certain frozen pizzas
- bratwurst
- pre-marinated/spiced/prepared chicken breast or chicken grillers
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Dahl’s history…..
Dahl's Foods timeline is a history of firsts
Only a few years after the term supermarket was coined, Dahl's already looked like a modern one-stop shop
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They spent too much on new stores then couldn’t compete with Hy Vee. Once they were gone Fareway really took off in the metro and surrounding communities. Like Fareway and their small food footprint. They get it by selling groceries and not fufu items.
