Casey's has been mailing it in for a while now, especially with their gas operation. Most times when I pull in anymore half the pumps are out of order.
Hy-Vee's weirdest business decision yet?
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The pizza maker by me doesn't do a great job. I like a cheap pizza, they sucked the last couple of times.
On the no fly list.
Since they basically force you to order online now its a 50/50 chance they actually make your pizza around here. Show up after 30 min and the ticket is still hanging out of the machine.
Multiple Casey’s and a BP is all we get in small town Iowa so hopefully they are doing ok. Can’t see Kwik Star slumming it in rural southern Iowa. The pumps and pizza are all fine, although in a nearby town, the pumps frequently won’t take any card.
Our elderly often get groceries at BP or Casey’s as the Hy-Vee is too big of a walk past non grocery items to get food staples.
Our elderly often get groceries at BP or Casey’s as the Hy-Vee is too big of a walk past non grocery items to get food staples.
Never know.
I suppose they're on routes that are part of fishing/outdoor destinations but there's some pretty barren areas of WI that have one and it's likely the only place around with a few healthy/sustainable food options.
This is a thing. One of those little microcosms for how everything else is going there.
In the spring especially use the other door sign is I think used to keep the doors from being damaged by the high winds, so those signs don't bother me too much.
They have traffic patterns and projections so dialed in it's wild. Every time I see one that seems randomly placed the parking lot is packed.
They might have issues, but Casey's stock has more than doubled the last 3 years. They are making money somewhere.
That’s due to preventing doors being damaged by wind when opened by customers lol
Kwik Star has been in rural NE/N Iowa for 30 years. They aren’t afraid of rural.
Is NE Iowa more of a destination/populated area?
I guess I don't know what part of southern Iowa @carvers4math is referring to.
Here's a map (from 2018) and they don't appear to have anything much south of I-80 or west of Des Moines.
I'm sure Hy-Vee is next in line with the tradition for Iowa companies these days expand a ton then sell to an out of state competitor that'll kill the brand and all the history along with it.
Yes on both fronts. It’s also closer to their corporate headquarters in La Crosse
Haha! Hy-Vee is only growing in regards to their footprint. The company is hemorrhaging money. HyVee can also reinvest into their stores without trying to sell me new jeans. None of those strategies have worked for them and WE are paying the price for it. I've been pretty anti WalMart my entire adult life and I can't ignore the savings anymore. Hy-Vee has made it perfectly clear they don't give a sh!t about their consumers so I've all but stopped supporting them.
There were rumors a couple years back that they were in discussions with Kroger.
Unless you work in the accounting department you don't know that. How do you know the lease agreements they're getting from the space on the stuff you have determined isn't working? They don't have to move much product to get the margins I would expect from groceries.
And typically their pricing isn't too much more terrible than say...Target. You'll notice item to item difference but in the grand scheme your total won't be much different for a cart.
You're going to find most things which are growing absolutely churn cash. Kwik Trip is spending more cash than it takes in on expansion. That company PRINTS money from operations and the land investment company spends it before it even comes in the door. A company like Menards is the exact same story.
I think this is actually a symptom of the problem. They’re growing through acquisition and the balance sheet looks good, but they are cutting corners to cut costs, and it’s going to backfire at some point. You can only defer maintenance for so long.
