Hy-Vee's weirdest business decision yet?
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What's next: All 221 Market Grille locations nationally will launch new menus in the coming weeks, which includes those being converted, Potthoff says.
Hopefully they hire someone better to do Hy Vee's advertising. Whoever they've been paying to do it the past several years has been horrible. Like, embarrassingly horrible.
HyVee has had to lose a sizable market share to places like Aldi and Walmart over the past 5 years. It seems refocusing on being what they were in 1990's and 2000's would be a good thing.
Getting rid of unsold inventory. Actually good practice. There used to be a Hy Vee about 5 minutes away from me . I figured out during grilling season ribeye and sirloin steaks typically went on sale on Mondays or Tuesdays. I don't need to wait for the weekend to slap a steak on the grill.
Jeremy is really cost cutting and leaning up the company from the dumpster fire Randy gave him...
The bar at the Grimes location always seems to have someone at it and especially the after work and early evening hours its fairly busy. Guessing there must be some kind of cost savings calculations behind it. What sucks is a lot of the DM area kitchens have already significantly reduced their hot food options and amount of counter space compared to what they were when they were when originally built. Not many have salad bars anymore either which I used o used to like as an option as they would also have some soups and maybe a hot item or taco meat to make some loaded nachos.
Aldi and the Asian grocery store are the only places I shop anymore… they actually give you good value for what you get, especially if most of what you get is produce, meat, cheese, and canned goods like me
Gotta confess, I’m going to miss our market grill bar. Had cheap IPAs for happy hour.
Hy-Vee used to care about the interior of their store.. That flipped sometime the past decade and it's all about the outside walls.. Almost like groceries are an inconvenience for the store
They’ve definitely slid. These companies often lose track of the core business and focus on frivolous ****… why did hyvee ever have a streaming service??? Wtf!??
Thought I saw one at the Mills Civic or the one on Grand in WDM recently but haven't been to either in awhile to confirm. I know that Urbandale and West Lakes took theirs out during remodels sometime after 2020. The one at West Lakes was really good, used to work not too far from there and would take my lunch there once in awhile.
And of poor quality. Every time I tried it was disappointing. Id bet the beer/keg lines at hy-vee locations have never been cleaned or changed out.
This didn't take long. Hy-Vee Downtown (4th and Court) has done away with bottle recycling. Hmmm, since they will still charge for the bottle deposit, no more beer from there. Supply and demand. 
They old HyVee salad bars were great. We would do that a lot prior to Covid.
