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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At Aldi you don’t pay for the shopping carts, you rent them. You get your quarter back when you return the cart.
You are correct about Publix,
Great company, great stores
Yes, I know that you get the quarter back, but I am amazed by the efficiency of the concept. It reinforces doing the “right thing” and returning the cart... which means that they don’t have to pay someone to constantly police carts, and there are no insurance claims for carts rolling into the side of some soccermom’s Range Rover, and I SAVE MONEY ON GROCERIES.
Everybody wins.
Neither could I. Try the Parmesan crusted chicken tenders, too, from the frozen section. They’re a good start for a speedy chicken parm.
Works for me. That is the business module - only pay for what you actually want. It seems to do a good job of keeping overhead down.
“Are the 29 PW Stores the entire chain? Doesn’t seem like much, or has it shuttered stores over the decades?”
As far as I know, there is still a PW in McKinney, Texas, about 30 miles NW of Dallas. It was there when I lived there from 1984-87 and it was still open a couple of years ago. The article mentioned some stores that were “franchises” so it sounds like they will still be around.
There is an Aldi’s a couple of blocks from my house. I buy some items there but for me it doesn’t work out too well with them only having gallon sizes of milk and such. I’m a single senior so I don’t buy large quantities. However, they have some awesome cracker and cookie assortments.
You sure stirred up some memories for me with your 1950’s list of now defunct stores. We also had the Mott’s and TGY dime stores in the Dallas area well into the 80’s but they are gone now. Dime stores were wonderful. You could get anything and everything there.
HEB stores are mostly west of me except for Central Market which is where I go when I want to reward myself. Love their bakery and deli.
“In NC we shopped mostly at Harris Teeter. When we moved to Ga and started shopping at Publix, our grocery bill was slashed by at least a third.”
Harris Teeter blows chunks. I’m surrounded by them. Overpriced on everything.
This thread reminds me of the joke where Dolly Parton bought and merged Big Star, Piggly Wiggly and Harris Teeter. What would be the name of the new company?
“Yet they are all gone now, as dead as the world I grew up in the 1950s.”
You can always tell a re-purposed A&P building.
Piggly Wiggly and Teeter.........
I saw an news story about an Aldi’s opening up and it said: “The store should employ between 10-12 persons”.
Saw a story about another chain opening a grocery, “The store should employ between 50-60 persons”.
I love Aldi’s but have two beefs: One is a very limited selection and the other is sometimes feeling like I’m standing in a Soviet bread line at a mile long check-out when there’s only one cashier working.
Big Wiggly Teeters.
I got that same feeling too......especially when all the customers ahead of me were from somewhere in the Balkan nations and speaking their native language...........Not kidding either.
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