I live in a Kroger town. There are five within two miles of my house, I think. Two of them are less than 1/4 mile apart, and both are always packed.
6 Brands That Might Not Make It Through 2015?
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Grocery store wars have been going on here for a while. Privately owned markets are almost extinct. I think we have a handful left after WM neighborhood markets sprang up a couple years ago. Price Cutter is holding it's own while three Dillons (Kroger owned) close on 12-24. Price Cutter is buying the properties and should reopen two of the four buildings.
A Kansas City based Hyvee is killing things and probably caused the Dillons closing after they built a place across the street from the largest grossing Dillons.
We use to have one Albertson's buy they went bye bye and PC set up shop.
A Kansas City based Hyvee is killing things and probably caused the Dillons closing after they built a place across the street from the largest grossing Dillons.
We use to have one Albertson's buy they went bye bye and PC set up shop.
They've wanted to put in a hyvee in Joplin for a while, but they just haven't gotten the community support.
to look at the other side of things, here are 5 products that will make a comeback this year.
5 tech brands that are making a comeback this year - NY Daily News
oculus is by far the product im looking forward to most. ive been wanting virtual reality since my NES days and now its finally here. also i have a bit of facebook stock and if oculus takes off it should help them out a bunch.
5 tech brands that are making a comeback this year - NY Daily News
oculus is by far the product im looking forward to most. ive been wanting virtual reality since my NES days and now its finally here. also i have a bit of facebook stock and if oculus takes off it should help them out a bunch.
Looks like a collection of really bad ideas, but the $1,100 walkman is in a class by itself. If I want precise sound, I'll sit in front of my home stereo. Remember those? Or if it's gotta be mobile, I'll spring for a $100 upgrade to my headphones, and pocket the other $1,000.
Target opened its first stores in Canada in 2013, so not that big a deal to shut them down in 2015.
Plus, there's no way they could go up against this.
its a wonder how they have stayed open this long.
however i do have one walking distance from me and it is worth paying a bit extra to stop by every now and then rather then drive somewhere or wait for amazon. but then again i only do that, at most, once a year.
I have couple of radio shacks near me, I never go there anymore. It will be a bit sad if they go, he'll a blockbuster video finally shut down around the near me and that was less than a year ago.
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I stop in a few times a year, but rarely spend more than $20 or $30. I'd rather buy from a "local" shop than the Web when I can help it.
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Me too, but I'm not going to pay $19.99 for a $3.99 usb cable.
Target opened its first stores in Canada in 2013, so not that big a deal to shut them down in 2015.
Plus, there's no way they could go up against this.
huh, well reading the article says that its 130 some stores and a 17000 jobs. man that seems like a big deal for a whole bunch of canadians. really sucks for all the people who work there.
130 stores is a boatload of startup capital. I've got no real numbers to work with, but wouldn't be surprised if it cost them $30 million or more to build each store if they were all ground up. That could be close to 4 billion dollars. Even if I'm waaaay off, it's a big chunk of cash.
It wasn't ground up. They bought them from Zellers in 2011 for 1.8 billion Canadian dollars (which was aboot the same as US dollars in 2011).
Apparently Zellers was kind of down market, in some shady locations, so Target didn't enjoy the same "we're better than Wal-mart" prestige they have down here.
I think they make these announcements just for the puns
Wet Seal sinks into Chapter 11 bankruptcy - Jan. 16, 2015
Wet Seal sinks into Chapter 11 bankruptcy - Jan. 16, 2015
Thanks for your mad Google-Fu skills and the translation into Canadian.
I can't quite fathom a billion dollars, but 1.6 of em sounds like a lot to me.
It also sounds like Target made a bad choice for their introduction to a new market. Stockholders should not be pleased.