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They are going kaput, and have been for a long time. I was in one last year, and the store had many empty and partially full shelves. The last time I had seen s
by AmVess 3y ago
They are going kaput, and have been for a long time. I was in one last year, and the store had many empty and partially full shelves. The last time I had seen something similar was when K-Mart hit the skids. Aisles of nothing, and then an aisle or two of things stacked so as to appear there was more on the shelves than there actually were.
It very much had a semi-abandoned, depressing feel to it.
CVS and Walgreens are headed down that path, too.
- wayfinder 3y agoNo I doubt CVS is. Their profits have gone up almost every quarter for almost 6 years, unlike Walgreens and Rite-Aid. Plus none of their stores that I’ve been inside has looked dead, and they always have locations in the right places like in downtown areas. You almost wonder what Walgreens and Rite-Aid have been up to all this time. At the end of the day, if I’m in a major metro area and I’m not near a supermarket, I’m going to CVS.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y agoIve seen a supermarket hitting the skids. One with heavy foot traffic (they failed to renegotiate the lease). It is one of the saddest, most depressing things i've ever seen. Just seeing staff, most of whom had been working in that market for years, was heartbreaking. You didn't even have to talk to them to see how the slow moving death sentencew was affecting them It gave me a taste of how living in a communist country must be like.