Delhaize Group will close 33 of 105 Sweetbay Supermarket stores in Florida by mid-February, as part of a reorganization to boost U.S. results, the company says. "They are simply underperforming stores," spokeswoman Nicole LeBeau said
-- Edited by Master_Meat_Sawman on Thursday 17th of January 2013 12:11:40 PM
The liquor stores and pharmacies attached to those stores will also close, on the page with the video they have the address's of the stores closing in the Tampa area
-- Edited by Master_Meat_Sawman on Thursday 17th of January 2013 12:20:00 PM
I was talking to a friend of mine and he just inform me that another Delhaize food chain many may know -- Food Lion -- just announced that all Food Lion stores in the greater Jacksonville area (that's a dozen stores just in Jacksonville) are closing within 30 days. About 900 Florida employees of the chain will be affected with about 450 of those coming from Jacksonville locations. Stores in Clay, St. Johns, Nassau, Baker and Alachua counties are also closing.
in the past three years del haize stocks went from 80 to 40 dollars a share- i own a few of those stocks, they are hurting.
thru consolidations, the traditional supermarkets, arent what they use to be. del haize home base is in belgium.
someday, some business analyst is going to look back and write a book, "the fall of the great american supermarket"
but one of the major causes of this- will never be mentioned, its not mis- management, its not supermarkets havent "reacted" or changed their strategy, tho this does enter into the equation, its not what im seeing as the unspoken major reason. wal-mart is the welfare mecca - we have more people on welfare than ever before- over 30% of americans are on some sort of welfare, and where does the welfare and unemployed love to shop??
here is a quote from an article below
"For example, the number of Americans on food stamps has grown from about 17 million in 2000 to 31.9 million when Barack Obama took office to 46.4 million today.
The federal government spent a staggering 71.8 billion dollars on the food stamp program in 2011." (end quote)
I dont blame just one political party, I blame both of them, and blame the politicians, and I dont blame the people that NEED welfare as a helping hand, tho I do blame the fraud in the system, and the people that could work, that don't. I dont blame wal-mart -they are exceptional retailors, but again, wal mart is a mecca for the welfare/foodstamp crowd, a growing majority are shopping there and not at the traditional supermarkets. This is a fact, and do they care if wal-mart has no meatcutters, and all the other stores in the area does?
alot of hard working people seem to be losing their jobs, trying to support the growing number of people not working-this seems ass-backwards
I'm seeing del haize, supervalue, and many other many gocery store companies, close more and more stores- and many of these stores, we could say have much better perishable departments than wal-mart, but does the growing number of foodstamp recipients care? Apparently not. Also, my other issue from wal marts and other hyper-markets like them is,,,most of there non foods department store items come from china,,,,which has killed manufacturing and killed jobs in this country- again, a vicious circle, the more you shop at walmarts, the more unemployment and fewer jobs their is- the more those folks shop at walmart
you go back 30 years ago, and many of us had "special orders" for company picnics, holiday dinner baskets, company parties, etc, well, these local companies dont exist as much which directly affect our stores. You could tell what day/evening when company workers got paid, if it was on thursday, then thursday evening would be a big shopping night.
there is an upside strategy to this trend- if more and more of the masses are shopping at walmarts, which they are- then open a butcher shop nearby.
