HEB is pretty damn hard to beat.
What's weird is to go to the west coast (LA area) and be used to shopping at HEB or the other larger "supermarkets" and then go to a Stater Bros and have the store be like a quarter the size.
Hy-Vee's weirdest business decision yet?
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HEB is pretty damn hard to beat.
What's weird is to go to the west coast (LA area) and be used to shopping at HEB or the other larger "supermarkets" and then go to a Stater Bros and have the store be like a quarter the size.
At least their produce bags are better than HyVee’s, which last time I was there, a kiwi managed to break.
Publix is a pretty decent store. They were great for getting my son a birthday cake from a distance. They remind me a bit of HyVee before it went nuts selling sporting goods, soap bombs, shoes, toys, medical clinics, etc. Was a good store for my son with limited cooking skills.
Wegman’s also a decent store in NY area. And when we lived in Indiana, always shopped at Martin’s and it was fine. Same with Dillon’s in Kansas when son was there, it was similar to HyVee without open air soap bombs so I could actually go in the store.
Agreed. I'd kill up to three people to have access to a King Soopers.
Kroger owns a lot of good brands. It’s weird to me that their stores seem to mirror the preconceived stereotypes of the regions they are in ie Kroger Kroger has strong rust belt vibes to me.
That's a big SoCal thing. (Owned by Krogers no less). Up north I saw a bunch of Safeways.
I called this months ago. HyVee is positioning themselves to be sold to Kroger but will retain the HyVee name as well as their distribution network.
The worst thing about Kroger for me is their produce and the “bagged fresh produce” like salad kits and snap peas and stuff. If you go to Kroger YOU HAVE TO CHECK EXPIRATION DATES.
I check expiration dates on everything that has an expiration date regardless of store.
Agree that all the signs are there. Who cashes the check, though? Store managers? Does the board have an ownership stake?
"Hy-Vee is employee-owned by direct stockholders — officers, district store directors and executive staff members — and indirect stockholders, the more than 45,000 Hy-Vee employees who participate in The Hy-Vee and Affiliates 401(k) Plan. A portion of the matching contributions made by the company to The Hy-Vee and Affiliates 401(k) Plan is directed to the Hy-Vee Stock Fund. This account is the largest shareholder in the company."
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So Kroger would buy all of them out and most would see a nice little bonus. Or maybe it would be some kind of stock for stock deal where their shares get exchanged for Kroger stock, which is publicly traded.
The very reason we don't use online order and pickup or delivery. You can save huge money and/or have much fresher food by going yourself.
We use online order at Fareway and they pick better produce than I do. I think sometimes they just fill order from stuff still in the back they haven’t put on shelves. One of the women wheeling out the the groceries said they trained them to shop like they were buying their own groceries, so always choosing longest expiration dates.
Something weird is going on with our Hy Vee, just in the last few weeks every bit of meat we've bought has gone bad. I mean if I don't cook it in a day it reeks. Not so with the other stores, so something has to be going on there.
