Seriously? Cue the old man yelling at clouds meme but I'd wager 1/3 of the general population are wearing pajama pants while in public.
Hy-Vee's weirdest business decision yet?
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Seriously? Cue the old man yelling at clouds meme but I'd wager 1/3 of the general population are wearing pajama pants while in public.
If they had a Walmart Market Grille bar, maybe I’d hang out with you. To people watch, ya know.
Warehouse Market? Had the pens/crayons where you wrote the price of what you were buying on the item itself?
If I remember right, there was a warehouse market in Marshalltown too.
That might've been it. They had the big flatbed carts you pushed around instead of the regular style grocery carts.
From "encyclopedia Dubuque"
WAREHOUSE MARKET. For a monthly fee, shoppers were told they would receive less expensive prices on food items. Upon entering the store, customers chose a black pen for marking the prices on items they wanted and a large flat wooden cart for their groceries. At the end of the month, coupons were received for free or greatly reduced items in the store.
The 1970 through 1985 Dubuque City Directory listed 190 John F. Kennedy Road.
WAREHOUSE MARKET. For a monthly fee, shoppers were told they would receive less expensive prices on food items. Upon entering the store, customers chose a black pen for marking the prices on items they wanted and a large flat wooden cart for their groceries. At the end of the month, coupons were received for free or greatly reduced items in the store.
The 1970 through 1985 Dubuque City Directory listed 190 John F. Kennedy Road.
Don't forget PharMor!
Sometimes when I have trouble falling asleep, I try to walk the halls of Sunmart/Econofoods from my memory.
KidSilverhair
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And Ottumwa. Went there with my mom many times as a tyke. The mention of the grease pencils to write down the prices really brought back some memories …
Throwing in my 2 cents here. I miss Sav-U-More that was on South Duff. They closed it when they remodeled and resized the Lincoln Center HyVee.
I don't understand the Aldi love. Don't go there with a shopping list, they won't have everything. It's more vibes shopping based on their selection. They'll have a ping pong table or an inflatable projector screen but not limes.
Go there enough and you know what they have and what they don't. The prices are absolutely worth a trip to another store to pick up loose ends when you have a 800-1000 per month grocery bill like ours. We're typically making a trip to another store for meat anyways (fareway/sams and to a lesser extent HyVee).
Aldi4Lyf
The aisle of shame! Sometimes you need to buy Hey Dude knock offs, car air freshners and hummus chips, and you don't want to walk all over the store.
I don't find our Aldi is out of items much more frequently than somewhere like Walmart, but they do tend to have items that are only in the store for limited times.
I see HyVee is closing the Wahlburgers concept and reverting to the Market Grille concept (whatever that means). Why don't they just return to the full deli operation - seemed very popular to me??
What I miss the most of Hy vee is the five minute horse races they sponsored on one of the Des Moines stations. They gave you a ticket to see if your horse won. They put the horse races in between Gilligans Island and Hogans Heroes after you got out of school.
