they've gotten too big. When running to the grocery store, I don't want to go to a 100,000sqft warehouse that sells everything under the sun. The traffic, parking and congestion is also bothersome.
Same for my trips to Publix while in Florida. The
Moved out of Kroger land right when they started to upgrade. I’m in Fry’s hell now which is a chain under the Kroger’s umbrella. It’s meh too but they are starting to upgrade the suburban stores.
I do Shipt as a side job. Most of my runs are at Publix and some days are definitely better than others. Some days I bat a thousand, but other runs I'm lucky to get 2/3rds of the items. I do Target runs on occasion and have a bit more success there.
Cutting long time employees salary and below bare minimum staffing. It will get worse. Just watch
I would say no. Sunset Foods would be considered as such in the Chicago area. Great for fresh meat, fish and other perishables.
I've been to plenty of them in North Carolina. Like Publix, it is akin to Hy-Vee. It is not as premium as Fresh Market or Whole Foods.
My local HyVee is playing that trick where they completely overhauled the locations of everything in the store moving them to different aisles. Now I can't just walk in and buy, I have to go searching. They're starting to play that game of rotating stuff around. DO NOT LIKE.
The worst thing I can say about the Hy-Vee nearest to our house is that they keep trying to sell clothes, and now shoes, clogging up valuable square footage with shit I would never buy.
They typically do not do these things to make it more challenging to find things. They do it to reallocate space to growing categories, etc. Space allocation is like a puzzle and often times it involves moving categories
I'm okay with that. But the clothes and DSW shoes section has to be at least 25 x 50. You can sell a lot of product in 1,250 square feet.
Explain why aisle two (right at the main entrance to the store) is the supplement aisle (that nobody buys) and the bread aisle is at the far end of the store? Hy Vee doesn't make the shopping convenient, they run you through the gauntlet hoping you buy more stuff.
Well vitamins typically have a high profit margin, so I can see why they would put in a prime location. Plus chains are really pushing health type items
They used to do that when they still had express check outs and before they replaced them with self checkouts, at least at the Waterfront Hy-Vee in Iowa City. They had a few gallons of milk and cartons of eggs in a cooler right by the express lane.
I have to be in the right frame of mind to shop at Hy-Vee. As to the liquor, at least you live in QCA and can bounce across the river and hit the liquor stores over there. That said, in NL they do have the cheapest prices on the stuff I drink.
It was always weird seeing people visiting UI from out of state stop and take photos of "Kum & Go" sign. You forget it's funny when they're everywhere in Iowa
Hyvee has one of the best private labels in the country. Its been a good 12 years now but some agency did a taste test of labels and hyvee was by far the best private label and was the only one that won any categories over the name brands. They won several canned vegetables and tomatoes categories.
Their products are good but they're almost as expensive as the brands in many cases until they go on sale (I do like to load up on canned tomatoes there when they go on sale because they are legitimately good as brand name equivalents).
Piggly Wiggly is still around? I lived in Northern Alabama for a few years and it was my closest grocery store. I like Mariano's and Jewell in the Chicago area today.
Ejaculate and Evacuate!
Jizz and Jet
Squirt and Split
