[taxcontrol]

It seems like a really one sided article. Any Freepers out there that can provide some balance?

[BenLurkin]

Speaking only rorm my personal experience, Haggen's does charge higher prices for the same products than the supermarkets they replaced.

[shotgun]

Don’t know much about this but if Albertson’s is involved I wouldn’t trust them. They were fined several times in the State of Washington for advertising one price and the scanner price was higher.

Additionally they have always been proven to be the highest price grocery chain in the state.

[Tucsonican]

Well, down here in Tucson they converted 3 Safeway stores. Two of those stores were one mile to either side of an Albertson’s on the same road and both Haggen stores are closing. I have no idea how significant that is but this story sure makes one wonder.

[forgotten man]

I occasionally shop at two Haggens stores that were previously Albertsons. The prices are higher. In the evening about 7:00pm there are more employees than customers in the store. People are price sensitive about food. The Ralphs down the road are doing fine.

[USNBandit]

Haggen's is expensive. They have nice stores, but you have to watch out buying their store brands. They advertise buying local, which they do, but some of their store brands are anything but. I bought a bottle of apple juice there once only to find the bottle stamped off the label as containing Chinese and Argentine apple juice.

They are also pretty aggressive in lefty communities when fighting to oppose any expansion of Walmart or Target stores.

[Sam Clements]

I went into the Hagens store in Yorba Linda on their first day. Prices were too high and the store was gloomy. Albertsons was always nice and inviting. I turned around with no purchases and have never been back. Sounds like the Hagens crowd got in over their heads. Sabotage from Albertsons, not so much.

[dragonblustar]

Haggens is expensive. I can’t shop there but I hardly shop at Albertson’s either because of their prices too.