Posted on 09/15/2013 5:28:26 AM PDT by Perdogg
The twenty-nine Piggly Wiggly stores sold by the family-owned company for an unknown sales price shouldn’t result in any closures, the Christian Science Monitor reported on Sept. 14.
Twenty-two of the Piggly Wiggly stores were sold by Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co. to Bi-Lo and another seven to Harris Teeter. Harris Teeter itself is in the process of being sold to Cincinnati-based Kroger Co.
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Yep, there are several towns near me with populations around 2,000 and they all have a PW. There's a town of about 15,000 population 25 miles away that has a Walmart Supercenter. There, one of two PWs closed along with a Winn-Dixie and a Food World. I'm not sure if WD and FW are still in business.
And all those small towns with a PW also have a Dollar General. All seem to be doing well.
Must be just the North Caroline stores owned by that family. There are about 80 stores in South Carolina alone, and in a bunch of them in other states.
My name is Piggly Wiggly, and I swear you can help yourself.
My name is Piggly Wiggly, and I swear you can help yourself.
And you've got to have your green back, for we don't take nothing else.
Yes, Piggly Wiggly store here, Piggly Wigglys everywhere.
Piggly Wiggly store here, Piggly Wigglys everywhere.
If you don't find one here, you will find one over there.
You can go to your five, you can go to your ten cent store.
You can go to your five, you can go to your ten cent store.
But if you come to my Piggly Wiggly, you won't go back there no more.
Now my friends all hate me, 'cause I've got a Piggly Wiggly store.
Now my friends all hate me; I've got a Piggly Wiggly store.
I've got groceries on my shelf, and they're laying all on the floor.
Now my Mama told me, Papa told me, too,
Now my Mama told me, Papa told me too,
They said that Piggly Wiggly store is going to be the ruin of you.
CC
Yet they are all gone now, as dead as the world I grew up in the 1950s.
Too bad, we had moral and common decency back then. Nowadays we have Obama and the Democrat Party--
“No, those were just stores owned by a couple of owners in the Carolinas. There are hundreds of PW stores all over the South and in some border areas”
Thanks, was figuring as much, even out here in Kalifornia I had known about PW Stores and not because of Driving Miss Daisy
I love Walmart. Great commercial success and extremely capitalistic! I do have their stock but would go regardless. Talk about getting all your needs in one place.
***In some areas, but Piggly Wiggly has stores in many (or most) small towns in several southern states, towns too small to ever support a Walmart. ***
There are several very small Walmart stores near here about the size of a Wallgreens. They are about the size of the first Walmart store to open not far from us back in the 1960s. Their prices are as low as other Walmarts and many use them as their primary convenience store.
These are NOT the Walmart Marketplace grocery stores which are larger.
Yes. IIRC, it was the first store where the customers didn’t give a clerk behind the counter a list and wait for him to fill it.
Clarence trusted the customers to wander the store unsupervised. It was a leap of faith that paid off.
He also laid out his stores in a large “Z” fold path with every row open only at one end alternating, hence you had to “wiggle” through the store so you had to walk by every item on every shelf.
Impulse buying was born, the rest is history!
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In the small town in SC that I live in, we have all 4 (Publix, Harris Teeter, BI-LO, and the Pig) within spitting distance of each other and my wife patronized them all.
She is a sharp observer of grocery stores and has given me her general assessment of the 4:
They all have some strengths...
Publix: large, clean, consistently good deli, not the lowest price, excellent service.
Harris Teeter: A notch or two below Publix, well stocked, average deli, good people.
BI-LO: Average size, not as clean as the others, shoddy service, best prices though, especially on big household items like paper goods, soda, etc.
The Pig: Stores generally smaller, less selection, average deli, but most of the employees are great and have been with the Pig/Newton family forever.
While everyone else is shopping at Wegman's or Whole Foods for their free-range, articical growth hormone-free, fair trade, BPA-free certified organic STARFRUIT, I will be at ALDI's, buying tin cans of black beans.
Every penny I save, buys a penny of ammo (which ain't much, but the solution to this whole economic disaster really only takes "a few pennies"... if you catch my drift).
Hold on a second... sounds like someone is at the door...
Here in Texas, we have a privately owned mega grocer called HEB that has superior service, groceries and overall quality. Best grocery store I have ever been to.
She has renamed them, Big Wiggly Teeters.
We have a new Aldi in the Houston burbs also. Stopped there just to check them out. Grocery carts are chained together and you have to insert a quarter in a slot to get one. Just hit me wrong. Thanks but no thanks.
It's ironic the buyer is K-Mart.
The Aldi business model operates their stores with three people. They rely heavily on transportation and central warehousing locations for stock replenishment. Restock is done before opening by the same people who run the register.
I believe Aldi’s is owned by the same company as Trader Joe’s. I’ve never been to an Aldi’s but have heard good things.
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