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Thread Number: 75757
/ Tag: Recipes, Cooking Accessories
Too Lidl, too late? |
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Post# 995897 6/1/2018 at 09:40 (2,154 days old) by joeekaitis  (Rialto, California, USA) |
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Here in California, ALDI incinerated their bare-bones grocery store competition, mainly Save-A-Lot, in a matter of weeks well after Fresh & Easy left the scene. To paraphrase, thrifty shoppers abhor a vacuum.
Meanwhile, the press hailed Lidl as the only grocer that might have ALDI quaking in their lederhosen. Must be true! It's on the news, right? Well . . .
Might it have turned out differently if Lidl had arrived sooner or even invaded from the west? Just a thought. CLICK HERE TO GO TO joeekaitis's LINK | ||
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| Post# 995916 , Reply# 1 6/1/2018 at 14:03 (2,154 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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A new Lidl Is open in Winston Salem, I love it! | ||
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Post# 995921 , Reply# 3 6/1/2018 at 14:51 (2,154 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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Tesco was also supposed to have set up shop stateside by now
They tried. Remember Fresh & Easy? Started here in Sunny SoCal, spread to Nevada, taken over by a local investor, and looked like they were roaring back to life when the Nevada stores went to 24 hours and several Southern California locations extended their hours 6:00am to midnight.
Then out of the blue came the "A Special Message to Our Fresh & Easy Friends" email announcing the end. | ||
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Post# 996053 , Reply# 6 6/3/2018 at 06:08 (2,152 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany) |
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Post# 996073 , Reply# 9 6/3/2018 at 09:33 (2,152 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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yeah, I think Lidl done messed up...between Aldi and Save-a-Lot there isn't much room for anyone else in that genre...Aldi is clearly the leader, is now revamping aggressively their 15-20 year old stores (cutting off the top at least to add an extra shelf level) if not building anew. They do a nice job of serving the middle market--something akin to a small-format no-membership Costco. Save-a-Lot is a franchised business (spun off from SuperValu recently) which is widely variable area to area. In a year or so Lidl will be gone, selling their locations off to Aldi or Food Lion.
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Post# 996077 , Reply# 10 6/3/2018 at 09:55 (2,152 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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Our ALDI in Rialto is being built from the ground up.
It'll be interesting to see the difference between a custom-built store and one in a strip mall like the ALDI in Highland, California where I shop on the way home from work. Dare we hope it'll have the fresh bread bakery being tested on the East Coast?
Have to remember to wear my "Fresh & Easy REFUGEE" t-shirt to the grand opening. | ||
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Post# 996079 , Reply# 11 6/3/2018 at 10:16 (2,152 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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And then there's Wakefern Food Corp.
They're succeeding on both major fronts: full-service supermarket and cost-cutter bag-yer-own. It's a safe bet a few SoCal chains are sending fact-finding missions to Wakefern Food Corp. to pick up a few pointers on how to push the shopping cart in both directions at the same time. CLICK HERE TO GO TO joeekaitis's LINK | ||
| Post# 996117 , Reply# 13 6/3/2018 at 20:44 (2,152 days old) by liamy1 (-) | ||
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We lost.... Our Dunnes Stores here in England in February this year. My nearest one was the 3rd last in the country to close. | ||
| Post# 996143 , Reply# 15 6/4/2018 at 08:33 (2,151 days old) by liamy1 (-) | ||
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Can’t... Say I blame them. I know we can’t discuss politics on this forum, so will only say it was the stupidest thing Britain has ever done. | ||
| Post# 996164 , Reply# 17 6/4/2018 at 10:23 (2,151 days old) by iej (.... ) | ||
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Aldi and Lidl are still expanding in the UK though, right? | ||
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