So because you can't find one store that offers the the lowest prices in the market on all of the things that they sell, all of the stores must be engaging in price gouging?
Hy-Vee, where there’s a cold corporate shrug in every aisle
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Hy-vee was going to shut down that location over 20 years ago, but the city incentivized them to build the new store with the amenities that many of the other Hy-vees have with bigger locations. After 20 years it's not working for them. That's life. Someone else with a different model can also run a grocery store there, if they choose.
I’m saying people are bitching about how expensive hy-vee is but in fact all stores are expensive.
And yeah, they are all price gouging
High crime, lots of shoplifting & poor financials? Good chance the store closes.
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Target to shutter 9 stores due to 'organized retail crime'
None of the closings are in Minnesota and impact stores in California, New York, Oregon and Washington.
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Walmart to close remaining Portland stores as crime-ridden city battles shoplifting wave
Walmart said the closures followed a “careful review of their overall performance.”
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You really need to use that meme for yourself. Extra security keeps hy-vee from being profitable. WOW.
The “ones” are the people living in that area that i just mentioned in a previous post. The people that are stealing, making hy-vee need extra security and so on.
The rough neighborhood that doesn’t allow hy-vee to be profitable.
It's not just Hy-Vee.
A Target, a Walmart and an Applebee's in this ONE Minnesota city all shut down due to crime & poor performance.
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A Target, a Walmart and an Applebee's in this ONE Minnesota city all shut down due to crime & poor performance.
Target To Close Brooklyn Center Location In Early 2019
Target Corporation is closing down six stores across the country – and one of the locations is in the Twin Cities.
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Walmart permanently closing Brooklyn Center store April 21
A Walmart spokesperson said employees can transfer to another store. Five Walmart stores are within 13 miles of the Brooklyn Center location.
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Applebee's is latest business to leave Brooklyn Center
The closure at Shingle Creek Crossing came a week after Walmart announced it will close its nearby supercenter this month.
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Target and Walmart make too much money anyway, who cares if things are stolen. Just need to raise taxes on the rich to fix this issueIt's not just Hy-Vee.
A Target, a Walmart and an Applebee's in this Minnesota city all shut down due to crime & poor performance.
Target To Close Brooklyn Center Location In Early 2019
Target Corporation is closing down six stores across the country – and one of the locations is in the Twin Cities.
Seems like ever since George Floyd's death and the riots that followed, anything goes. What's yours is theirs. I am just glad I don't own a Kia.
The origin of that store goes back decades, I am not even sure how far back. (I had a couple friends that worked in it way back in HS and I am old.
) But when built it served a pretty vibrant market, but one that has morphed through the years and has a significant portion of low income people near it these days. It didn't used to be that way, but it has been now for years.It was going to be closed by Hy-Vee for low performance like 20 years ago when the City and Hy-Vee entered into an agreement to keep it open, even rebuild it, or a part of it, I don't remember exact details. But the old store was way old and a real dump.
The "food desert" tripe is just that. There is another Hy-Vee closer to the one being closed than is true for a large percentage of people living elsewhere. A LOT of people have to travel 2+ miles to get to a full line grocery store.
We are very similar. We buy 80% to 90% at Costco/Sam's, and fill in the gaps at Hy-Vee. Hy-Vee is very close to my house and I know where everything is, so I fill in the gaps there instead of Aldi or Fareway. I would never have Hy-Vee be my primary source of groceries.
Maybe Dan Kehl will promise to build a grocery store in the area if voters don't approve a casino?
Grocery store consolidation is fast leading us to a world akin to Walgreens v. CVS.
A fun example from my trip to the grocery store yesterday. As I was strolling through the dairy section, I walked over to pick up my usual two pack of KerryGold butter, and (naturally) a "value tag" caught my eye announcing a new item -- the KerryGold 4-stick pack! Great, methinks. Upon closer examination though...the new four pack cost ~$10. So my eyes glance over at the two packs, which are on special for ... 2 for $8.
My working assumption is that the two pack is going the way of the dodo, and contrary to all normal laws of economics, increases in quantity are being accompanied by increases in unit prices.
Grocery chains are pure evil when it comes to games like this.
A fun example from my trip to the grocery store yesterday. As I was strolling through the dairy section, I walked over to pick up my usual two pack of KerryGold butter, and (naturally) a "value tag" caught my eye announcing a new item -- the KerryGold 4-stick pack! Great, methinks. Upon closer examination though...the new four pack cost ~$10. So my eyes glance over at the two packs, which are on special for ... 2 for $8.
My working assumption is that the two pack is going the way of the dodo, and contrary to all normal laws of economics, increases in quantity are being accompanied by increases in unit prices.
Grocery chains are pure evil when it comes to games like this.
Were the sticks smaller? Otherwise if I am following correctly the unit price went from $4 to $2.50.
This is largely what they've done with Cape Cod ripple chips, except sorta the other way around. The standard deal is something like 2 bags for $7. But I don't want two bags of chips, and my wife doesn't want me to have two bags of chips, even if I CAN mix and match flavors. So I outsmarted them, for a while, buying a single "family size" of wavy ones containing about 1.5x the pack volume for about $5.00. Ah! but they caught on to my gambit, and d/c'd the family pack in the wavy variety, so I am right back to where I started from.
Fart noises. HyVee does not do that. Lol sheesh
Yeah, I will say that living in Ankeny (fairly affluent for Iowa, for our non-Iowans here), I have seen lots of items stocked on their shelves which are close to expiring, or expired. The worst offenders I have noticed are fresh salsas and similar items. So I agree that they are not targeting poor areas with nearly expired goods. Either it is corporate-wide mismanagement, or corporate-wide malmanagement.
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HyVee sucks, but in no way, shape, or form because of a decision like this.
They suck because, as others have said, they've completely lost their way on the basics of being a grocery store. Stupid sponsorships - well - besides Clark, that makes sense, but F1? Mark Wahlberg? Bars? Sit down restaurants? What the fük.
As far as this decision goes, make your goddamn community a place people want to, and safely can do, business and they won't have this problem.
They suck because, as others have said, they've completely lost their way on the basics of being a grocery store. Stupid sponsorships - well - besides Clark, that makes sense, but F1? Mark Wahlberg? Bars? Sit down restaurants? What the fük.
As far as this decision goes, make your goddamn community a place people want to, and safely can do, business and they won't have this problem.
it's a miracle that you have the strength to type being so malnurished....😁 oh and HVee can eat a bag of d!cks. Only shop there as a last resort. Aldi first choice for me.
That's just the grocery business. Things go out of date all the time unfortunately. If you could figure out how to carry the perfect mix of items that always turn over in the whole store you'd be a billionaire.
i worked at HyVee as a teen; we were always rotating product. and, of course, customers knew that & would always remove product from the front and grab/purchase from the back
That's the nature of the beast. Thank goodness only a small percentage of people actually do that or there would always be outdated stuff on the shelves. It was always surprising to me how many people just grab the first item without ever checking the dates. Milk, bread, produce, meat they just grab and go. I always get the freshest item available.
I shop at all of them except Sam's Club since I am not going to drive to Crapids. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. They all suck in different ways. Ultimately though, it is business. And businesses don't want to be constantly robbed. It's a delicate balance opening up a store in a crime ridden area. When I lived in Baltimore, initially since I didn't know the city, I used to shop in the ghetto. Then one day, I saw a van with kids in it go through the store, haha. No one got hurt but it was wild. I then decided it was more fun to shop with white people in the burbs and my inner city experience eased off. Shit happens, sometimes its an own goal type of situation. I don't blame HyVee in this instance.
Well, I wouldn't do that if I didn't bring stuff home only to see that the suggested shelf life only has a day or two left. But, I have, so now I carefully select only the best, and let the Hyvee personal shoppers pick the other stuff for their orders.
Not saying they do that BUT it might not be a bad idea if they did.....provided they offer near expiration discounts on those items.
Could be a win-win. A store in a depressed area becomes a place where the company can move nearly expired product AND those people in that depressed area get more affordanle food.
I was a manager for them for 23 years. Left two years ago after the infamous realignment. Cut multiple hundreds of managers pay. Mine by twenty thousand dollars and I was only making like $58000. To see them with the bad decisions, sponsorships and high prices is why I personally hate them. The corporate leadership there is actually evil.
I propose we put a Kum and Go Fresh Market on the front of the Cedar Rapids Casino. Have them sell fresh squeezed juices, warm and/or cold sandwiches, and other tasty treats.
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