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Thread Number: 70576
/ Tag: Recipes, Cooking Accessories
And then there were none: the last Save-A-Lot in California has closed. |
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Post# 935147 4/28/2017 at 13:45 (2,548 days old) by joeekaitis  (Rialto, California, USA) |
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 Coalinga, California to be exact, a small northern town that's not exactly a grocery emporium magnet. Only the regional chain Save Mart Supermarkets has put down roots. No Safeway, no Raley's, no Ralphs, no Albertsons and certainly no Stater Bros. And apparently no appetite for bagging one's own store-brand groceries to save money. Don't know if they're on ALDI's radar but ALDI seems to be avoiding towns that had Save-A-Lot or Fresh & Easy, at least for now. | ||
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Post# 935151 , Reply# 1 4/28/2017 at 14:49 (2,548 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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interesting thought from the Aldi side of things......Save-A-Lot always appears run down from the minute they open....
have noticed a number of Save-A-Lots that closed down within a year of opening, only to Re-Open in the same location as an Aldi, and business is booming.... I really think a lot has to do with the clientele of what they attract...at least for these areas.... you can see the same sort of attraction with Acme versus ShopRite, and the same goes for Walmart versus Target... | ||
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Post# 935165 , Reply# 2 4/28/2017 at 16:34 (2,548 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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My nearby Save A Lot is clean, has the best and cheapest meats and produce. I shopped there today. My niece, 140 miles south in Portland said her Save A Lot is a filthy dump she will never set foot in again. It all depends on what the franchise owner does. The IGA part of their Supervalue conglomerate around here are all locally owned nice stores too.
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| Post# 935198 , Reply# 3 4/28/2017 at 20:10 (2,548 days old) by fan-of-fans (Florida) | ||
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I went in the Save A Lot here when it first opened, it looked pretty good. No idea what it's like now. I've also been to Aldi a few times, seemed more upscale than Save A Lot. | ||
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Post# 935255 , Reply# 5 4/29/2017 at 07:23 (2,547 days old) by polkanut (Wausau, WI ) |
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| Post# 935294 , Reply# 6 4/29/2017 at 11:28 (2,547 days old) by wringingwet (Walterboro South Carolina) | ||
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| Post# 935332 , Reply# 7 4/29/2017 at 17:03 (2,547 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
 I think we had Save A Lot here once. One store was sort of convenient, but I never really felt like the prices on the stuff I typically buy allowed me to save much, let alone a lot. The place was clean enough, but was still dim and dingy feeling.
I've noticed the store to store variation, too, with--IIRC--Grocery Outlet. One location was really unpleasant, but I'd sometimes shop there, anyway, because they had some good deals. Then, I went with someone else to another location (probably under different management, in a different city), and the experience was much better. As I commented at the time, I would feel almost poor shopping the first location, but that second location was nice enough that I felt frugal. | ||
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Post# 935532 , Reply# 8 4/30/2017 at 17:33 (2,546 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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Never seen a Save-A-Lot.
Out in this neck of the woods, we have all the majors (as befits a metro region with some six million souls). Plus some smaller outfits like Smart & Final, Grocery Outlet, FoodsCo, Food Max. FoodsCo stocks the Kroger store brand, so my assumption is that it's owned by Krogers, but there are no Kroger stores in the area. Go figure. I'm a bit eclectic in gathering groceries. In the past year I've switched to a local Mexican grocery (Mi Tierra) for most fresh veggies. Safeway or Lucky for beef when it's on sale (choice rib steak for $7, chuck roast for $3, etc). Costco for poultry, pork, grains, pasta, bread. Smart & Final for salad dressing (their olive oil balsamic is good) and sometimes poultry or other. Grocery Outlet sometimes has unique offerings but ... got tired of poor quality and nearly expired. But a good spot for picking up "As Seen on TV" items at a discount. | ||
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Post# 935644 , Reply# 9 5/1/2017 at 08:20 (2,545 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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ALDI has an almost McDonald's-like control over its stores and Lidl will probably be the same. Both Save-A-Lot and Grocery Outlet tout their ownership and independent operator programs respectively as a way for each location to have an individual personality and a familiar public face in the neighborhood. It seems to be hit-or-miss and a lot depends on more variables than one can control. But Save-A-Lot is open to change, especially when one location closes nearly as fast as another opens elsewhere. And note where their new leadership comes from: CLICK HERE TO GO TO joeekaitis's LINK | ||
| Post# 935646 , Reply# 10 5/1/2017 at 08:25 (2,545 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Aldi are independently owned like McDonalds? | ||
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Post# 935648 , Reply# 11 5/1/2017 at 08:37 (2,545 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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Sorry, shoulda said: | ||
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