Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] grocery wars (waaaay off topic)

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Michael wrote:

[snip]

> In a college town with a large part of their customers from outside
> the area I'd think that'd be an even bigger problem. Between Super
> Walmart and a mass HyVee the other stores will feel the burn I'm sure.
> I'd guess a town the size of Columbia can't support more than maybe
> three big super stores.

Hmm...Columbia and its annexable environs is 100K people, so groceries
have to be something on the order of a $100 million business. If 3 were
the limit for large supermarkets, then the enormous Nowell's at Providence
and Nifong would round out the market.  Only that doesn't seem to be in
the cards.  There's a commercial lot directly across from the Hy-Vee where
some developer wants to put a bunch of stuff including a grocery store,
which you would think would have to be either Hy-Vee-like, or a smaller
specialty [natural foods?] place.  And there's yet *another* development
planned for like Scott and Smith where they proposed a grocery store. If
all that happens, you'd guess that somebody was going down.

jking


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