HomeMy WebLinkAboutMULBERRY LEMAY CROSSINGS, LOT ONE, FILING ONE - FINAL PUD - 36-96D - MEDIA - (21)Retailer's all-m-one approach proves profitable
FOOD FOR THOUGHT- Shoppers stand in lines at the Wal-Mart Su- ferings have cut into traditional grocery store market shares. Wal-
percenter in Cool Springs, Tenn. The all -in -one retailer's grocery of- Mart now leads the others in grocery sales.
Wal-Mart has corner on food market, too
By CANDY McCAMPBELL Top 4 food chains America Securities in San
The Tennessean g a r of the re- ■ In Fort Collins
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Here are the top four national grocery port "They clearly have lower
severs from 2000: rites than the others."
Rene Hernandez and his wife " , -�:. gym, _ P Wal-Mart groceries will be
used to shop at Kroger for gro- to96 , p-3ox Hernandez noted that at coming soon to Fort Collins.
ceries for themselves and their Wal-Mart, "They've got every- Wal-Mart Inc. plans to open
three children, but the other thing here." an 80,000-square-foot gro-
day he was at the Wal-Mart i
Another shopper, Margie cery store inside the new
Supercenter in suburban Jamison of Chapel Hill, Tenn., Wal-Mart Supercenter,
Franklin loading the car with does most of her shopping at scheduled to open in Octo-
his purchases. the Wal-Mart in Franklin, but her at the Mulberry-Lemay
"We do all the grocery shop- she reads the ads and was in Crossing shopping center.
ping at Wal-Mart," he said. "I '` Kroger to take advantage of an The Wal-Mart Super -
think it's cheaper." w:,i-Mart 'Kroger Aiberson's Safeway advertised special center covers about
It's art of a trend, as the na- source' Report oy Shelly J. Hale, Some shoppers, though, are 200,000 square feet.
P Banc ot America socunoes like Anthony Pickett, who goes
tion's No. 1 mass merchandise Aaron Hightower, Gannett Newa Sarnce
company has become No. 1 in - ,to the most convenient store
groceries as well according to a report on the in "Time is important I'm not^ 'Wal-Mart has punched a
Wal-Mart pushed Kroger dustry released july 6. loyal to any of theme".he s4('Y ,.. hole in everybody's bucket
out. of the No.1 spot nationally "Wal-Mart is becoming . "Shoppers today ,aYe notlas with the products they are sell
la96 year with an estimated some consumers' regular su--, loyal as their parents were, ing," he said. "They're drawing
$47..7 billion in sales of grocery, permarket, whip others only . said David Sisk, Bead of the even loyal shoppers from the
Oth and beauty, pharmacy want it for a big shopping trip-vconsumer busine§i practice others. Even affluent cus-
photo products, compared said Shelly J. Hale, senior re- for Deloitte & Touche in At- ' tomers like to feel they've got a
N4A $46.6 billion for Kroger, search analyst at Banc of Tanta. deal."