Food Lion still no. 1
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Food Lion held off its rivals in the highly competitive Richmond grocery market to rank first in sales for the third consecutive year, despite seeing its percentage of sales fall. Meanwhile, Kroger increased its share, and Martin’s Food Markets’ results dropped slightly.
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Posted by nycjsw on June 21, 2011 – 4:31 p.m.
I agree with the previous poster – Kroger will be moving up the rankings. They continue to open new stores that take off. The store in western Midlo rocks, the new Carytown store will rock and their newer stores in the east end are also taking off. As they replace the old stores they inherited, you will continue to see them grab business. They also have A LOT of room for growth as Martin’s falters. Remember Martin’s is opened another day and selling beer/wine but still lost market share. Anyone have any input on the Martin’s/Ukrops cakes I posted about earlier? They insist they are the same thing b/c Ukrop’s still makes them.
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Posted by MeToo on June 22, 2011 – 7:53 a.m.
They are still the same cakes, what’s your “beef” with them? Because the sticker says Martins now?
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Posted by nycjsw on June 22, 2011 – 8:01 a.m.
The box still says Ukrop’s. My “beef” is the cakes don’t taste the same – not even close. The custom order sheet cakes are also not as thick. The cakes is very dry tasting where the old Ukrop’s cake was very moist. We have given them 3 shots post Ukrop’s and each cake had this flaw. So it could be that Ukrop’s is making the cake but Martin’s has them producing the cakes in a way that cuts costs or maybe Ukrop’s is cutting costs? Either way the cake does not taste the same. That is my beef.
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Posted by blue67ccm on June 21, 2011 – 1:07 p.m.
Food Lion leads due to having so many more stores and yes they do take advantage of growing suburban and rural communities where the others haven’t tread….yet.
I’ll state what I stated a year ago when I stepped into Martin’s for the first time, it felt like a Giant. And Giant already died once in Richmond. If Kroger takes over 2nd place anytime soon, they may leave again.
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Posted by urmom69 on June 21, 2011 – 2:21 p.m.
Rubbish. Its not even close to the same entity that failed back years ago. 2 Seperate divisions. Look it up before the lies snowball on you.. Kroger will never be 2. They have to get over Walmart first. Let me know how that works out.
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Posted by blue67ccm on June 21, 2011 – 3:15 p.m.
Wow–as I stated, the annual supermarket wars thread hasn’t disappointed. Not sure why you would assert I was lying since I was only stating an opinion about Martin’s future (and yes, Giant, once upon a time, left Richmond….)
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