Disregarding the wonderful store that was Liquidation World, sales for food and general necessities that have gone stale or out of season just do not happen.
Not including clothes or thrift/consignment shops, sales are non-existant here. For example, Super Valu grocery store next to Employment Central and Larry Bagnell's office is going out of business. I guess they couldn't see it coming, not having a crystal ball with which to view the future, but c'mon on, one stop in there and even I could see it.
President's Choice items offered even though they are offered at both Extra Foods and Superstore. Only, the tea that costs $1.94 at Superstore, and $2.30 at Extra Foods is $2.59 ON SALE at "Super Valu."
I understand that once upon a time, Super Valu was Food Fair and the only game in town. Well I'm sorry, but the game has changed and you're losing.
Freezer-burned steaks for $9.00, on sale? Eww. Do you know how long it takes for meat to get freezer burned and start decomposing? I'll give you a hint- I found ground beef in my freezer from August. It is now grey. There you go.
Maxwell House instant flavoured coffee is insanely pricey. $6.47 for Vanilla, and bizarrely, $8.69 for Hazelnut.
Oh and did I mention they are going out of business? Tomorrow?
I stopped by today and sales are, oh gosh, are you ready...30% off.
Pfffft.
Here's a wake-up call. You are selling candycanes for $1.00 when Xmas was almost 2 months ago. The flavoured instant coffee is $5.47 at TWO other places in town. Stop trying to squeeze a dollar out of every product until it screams.
Also, I get a jab at Shoppers in this one. They are doing fine, healthy in this unhealthy market.
Their coffee (same as above post, instant, flavoured) is $6.99. Not a deal.
They are selling red, white and green smarties, hershey's kisses and a ton of other Christmas crap 'on sale' and it is FEBRUARY. Here's a tip, if merchandise is not moving off the shelves, say, in a month-- Mark it DOWN. Not rocket science.
No, sorry, you can't get $8.99 for those green boxes of Toblerones. Or $4.99 for Terry's Chocolate oranges with cute little pictures of holly. Or $3.50 for Lindor Reindeers with bells. Or $1.50 for bags of Xmas hershey kisses.
Jesus people, are you honestly going to hang onto that stale, bloomed chocolate crap until EASTER? In my defence, I honestly buy chocolate on sale and love every bite. But I also bought some interesting Vitamin Chocolate the other day and it was stale as hell and tasted like shit. Sale? Not so much. Boo.
Good luck, and good riddance.
Sorry, but the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that you're going to see prices go up at Extra Foods and Superstore now that Super Valu is no more. After all, Super Valu is a chain of independently owned and operated smaller supermarkets that happens to be supplied by the same company that owns Superstore and Extra Foods: Loblaws.
ReplyDeleteI get the impression that Loblaws really has had no idea what to do with the Super Valu chain after turning it into a franchise in the 1970s and has left its operators to basically flounder. It used to be serious competition for Safeway for us folks "down south" but it seems now that it's being run into the ground through lack of franchisee support. Loblaws seems quite happy to open up Superstores, Extra Foods-es and even Real Canadian Wholesale outlets and see its Super Valus suffer as a result. It happened in my hometown and it's happened elsewhere, I'm sure.
Intrigued by this development, I did some research online and found this news story:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.yukon-news.com/business/11032/
It doesn't look like Super Valu went out of business for lack of trying. I am confused about why Loblaws wouldn't supply it with PC and No Name products, though. How "affiliated" does one have to be with Loblaws to run a Super Valu store?