Large grocery stores, including Aldi, close stores, from February 12
The closures continue in March.
There are few more frustrating things than an interruption in your routine. We all have our favorite places for dinner, our essential place for coffee, and of course, our favorite grocery . But some channels, including Aldi, adapted to a budget, have announced that they will close the stores, which means that your local center could soon disappear for good. Read the rest to find out more about these upcoming closings.
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Aldi houses a location of Minnesota.
This Sunday, February 12, Aldi closes a store in the Jordan district From North Minneapolis, Kare affiliated to NBC reported.
The store, located on N Penn avenue, closes "due to the inability to renovate the store to accommodate our largest range of products and our current rental term," Aldi told the station. "We thank our customers for their loyalty years in this place and we are impatient to see them soon in the nearby stores."
Kare also included a photo published outside the store, which confirmed that the location would close for good at 5 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday . He also underlined buyers in other Aldi stores in the Minneapolis region.
Customers are sad to see the food store at a reduced price, especially in the light of Price of the arrow grocery store . "I can't afford too much Cub," buyer Jarrod Jackson Said, referring to the other other grocery chain nearby, Cub Foods.
LATRISHA VETAW , A member of the Council of the Quarter 4 of Minneapolis, described the departure of Aldi as "a great loss", adding that she wanted the city officials to received more in advance. "I would have loved intervening as a member of the council and bringing the whole of the council and understanding what we could do," Vetaw told Kare.
Better life contacted Aldi to comment, but has not yet heard.
Stop & shop closes a store in New Jersey.
Stop & Shop, a grocery chain with stores in the northeast, also announced a store closure. On March 23, The Stop & Shop in Highland Park, New Jersey, will be gone for good, said a company spokesperson Better life .
"STOP & SHOP carried out examinations of its commercial performance regularly, and this store was identified as an underperforming compared to financial expectations," said the spokesperson, confirming that no other stop & shop in the New Jersey store should not close.
However, the local Highland Park community is concerned about the store leaving, encouraging the city's borough council to write a FORMAL FAQ , who was then Facebook shared . The officials noted that after the closure of Stop & Shop, there will be a period of time when Highland Park does not have a "local grocery".
"The duration of this time is unknown and depends on a certain number of factors," said the FAQ document. "The district has expressed in unequivocal terms that our preference is that the space is used for a supermarket above any other potential use."
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Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores are also closing.
During calling February 2, Brian olsavsky , financial director for Amazon.com, announced that some Amazon Go convenience stores and Amazon Fresh The grocery stores also close the shop.
"We are continuously refining our store formats to find those who will resonate with customers, build our grocery brand and allow us to develop significantly over time," said Ossavsky. "As such, we periodically access our store portfolio and have decided to leave certain stores with low growth potential."
In total, Amazon has more than 40 Amazon Fresh stores Six states and Washington, D.C. according to the Amazon Go website, there is currently 28 convenience stores In Chicago, New York, Seattle and San Francisco. Ossavsky has not provided details on which Amazon goes and the fresh stores will close, nor when the closures start.
A spokesman for Amazon said Better life that the company has no additional information to share for the moment. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Amazon press a break in new fresh grocery stores.
Also during the call of February 2, CEO Andy Jassy said the company does not open new Amazon Fresh locations.
"We have decided in the past year about the last year that we are not going to extend the fresh physical doors until we have this equation with the differentiation and the economic value we love, but we are optimistic that we will find This in 2023, "said Jassy. "When we see this equation, we will broaden it more broadly. But I think we have a very important opportunity in the grocery segment."
While Jassy said that the grocery store is "important and strategic" for the company, the experts declared to insider that Amazon was simply not equipped to face the über-competitive Retail market .
"Being great to himself is far from being enough to be good", consulting the retail trade Richard Hyman said. "Amazon is not a retailer, it is a technological company, and their absolute nucleus is technology."
For what is worth, Amazon has tried to introduce high -tech elements to the purchasing experience in person - including the possibility of taking your selections and getting out of the store directly. However, buyers need more than that.
"Consumers are not going to buy somewhere simply because it has a walking technology or a fantasy cart that scans items as you add them. They need something else to attract them," Neil Saunders , Managing Director of Globaldata Retail, said to inside.