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

["Spurling, Shannon " <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

When I was going to Jr. College out in California, I worked at a sears in
the mall. This was right after Sam Walton died. I always heard that the
reason that Wal-Mart was a Midwestern phenomenon was because he wanted
something manageable. And that seamed to be the case, because Wal-Mart
didn't start this cancerous growth thing till after the old guy passed on.
Before that it was just these little Wal-Mart Discount Cities (the old brown
and white signs that said "We Sell for Less"), and a few Sam's Clubs. Well,
after he passed, Wal-Mart started growing like a big cancer and building
stores and these abominable super centers every where. And they were going
to start building in California. In fact, they were going to build one right
across the street from my Sears store. The management was going nuts. Truth
is, it kind of shook them up a little. And in the end it wasn't a bad thing.
But the stress and pain it caused the rank and file was not really needed or
worth it. Moral of the story? Sears is still there. They will be there for
quite a while. I'm sure sales went flat for a while, but you figure out that
you kind of get what you pay for. If your gonna buy the cheap stuff ( like I
do :-) Wal-Mart is great, but if you need something Wal-Mart doesn't have,
which they don't have a lot of stuff, you have to go to the local stores to
get specialty stuff. Same with the food section of Wal-Mart. There are some
brands and types of food I really like, and they don't carry them. And I
absolutely hate their meat section, especially since they got rid of the
meat counter. I have never seen such lousy beef in my life. They probably
killed the cows for it because they were in pain from their meat sucking so
much. And their pork prices? Sorry, I hate to tell them, but there isn't any
such thing as a 24 karat pork chop. It's not gold, it's meat.  

Shannon Spurling
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From: Jonathan King [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:29 PM
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Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] grocery wars (waaaay off topic)



So right before I came into work tonight, I stopped at the Broadway Gerbes
hoping to score some jelly beans.  Ha, ha, ha.  The place was a complete
shambles; they're tearing down and throwing up shelves there in a complete
panic. Apparently the latest victims of Hy-Vee fever (Nowell's on Worley
folded, Schnuck's managed to get even schnuckier, etc.) Now, I'm new to
the midwest, but I've never seen such abject fear of a new competitor in
the grocery business before.  Is this just a Columbia thing, a Hy-Vee
thing, or just the fact that this Hy-Vee is slated to be huge?  I guess
I'm pre-disposed to like Hy-Vee since they're employee-owned, but I'd be
pretty annoyed if the Gerbes Plaza thing ended up looking like the
Biscayne Mall.

jking


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