Text 36003, 51 rader
Skriven 2013-04-11 20:10:36 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 35931 av Dave Drum (66117.cooking)
Ärende: K-Mart: was economizing
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Hi Dave,

 -> Nor were they blue light specials.

 RH> Do they even have those any more?  I haven't been in a K-mart in over
 RH> a decade.

 RH> Haven't missed much-we popped in a couple briefly to check something
 RH> (one in AZ, one in NC) and they were both dirty, dingy, run down, etc,
 RH> etc. They didn't have what we wanted so walked out.

 DD> Sorry for your luck. I shop the local K-Mart with fair regularity. The
 DD> store is 45+ years old (I was one of the opening department heads -
 DD> camera department) and is still clean, and well lit, with aisles one
 DD> can navigate down whilst pushing a shopping trolley - even if there is
 DD> another trolley coming the other way. It's not as huge as the re-done
 DD> Target. And the aisles are not so
 DD> squinched-up as China Mart seems to be every time I am forced by
 DD> circumstance to visit one to check a price or something (I never buy
 DD> from Wally World or Sam's Club as a matter of principle).

I don't buy from Sam's Club but do shop at W-M. Most (not all) seem to
be much better, IMO, than K-M. The latter seem to have a lot of empty
shelves/racks, as if the store is perpetually waiting for a major
shipment to come in. We have a super W-M in town; I don't do all of my
grocery shopping there but do get some basics at a lower price than
other stores. I don't buy everything there as I feel there is a definate
lack of quality in a lot of their store brands but they do have lower
prices than other stores on some of the name brands I use.

 DD> For my hard-earned $$$ this pair of local K-Marts are good examples of
 DD> mass merchandising done right. I sort-of miss the deli/cafeteria ...
 DD> but at both K-Mart locations there is either some form of burger
 DD> snatcher or Popeyes (out south) or casual Mexican available.

The most common food place I see associated with K-M is Little Caesar's
Pizza, and they are not on my list of top ranked take out pizzas. Never
saw a K-M with a deli or cafeteria; I do miss the fabric department that
they used to have.


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Ruth
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