Lucky's Market shuts down all but a handful of its stores.
And Fineway in NY is also closing.
Fairway.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 22, 2020 7:14 PM |
Fairway denied it in a tweet, for whatever that’s worth...
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 22, 2020 7:18 PM |
And Krystal ... I'm bereft!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 22, 2020 7:45 PM |
Fairway is a perfect example of what happens when venture capital takes over a business and has no idea how to run it. It used to be a good store but it's gone steadily downhill since then, while prices have gone up quite a bit, especially with produce.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 22, 2020 7:51 PM |
Lucky’s closed in our college town location last spring after three years but they faced competition from our well established local cooperative.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 22, 2020 8:01 PM |
Well, that's a very positive story, R5.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 22, 2020 8:07 PM |
Oops, sorry, Fairway. My bad.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 22, 2020 10:02 PM |
Lucky's was great but there are so many stores trying to be them and Whole Foods is killing the competition in most places.
Fresh Thyme is another store that is semi-quasi organic and about the same size, and I honestly don't know how they stay open, either.
It sucks that Kroger yanked Lucky's funding. Kroger has some of the shittiest markets around.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 22, 2020 10:04 PM |
Oakland Park store in Ft. Lauderdale is/was a dump! Produce was in really bad shape; plus a lot of it was WAY past a sell date. Also, the cashiers had no idea what some things were. Obviously, poorly trained.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 23, 2020 4:09 AM |
Lucky (Fulton St) in SF seems fine, maybe closings are regional.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 23, 2020 7:46 AM |
Our Luckys is great ...their housemade bacon is outstanding
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 23, 2020 9:39 AM |
Didn’t Lucky become Albertsons and then went back to being Lucky?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 23, 2020 10:31 AM |
I’m a New Yorker who discovered Lucky’s when we were in Wyoming. Man, I’d find an excuse to go there. Loved it.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 23, 2020 10:38 AM |
My HR buddy tells me there’s a flood of resumes coming from grocery store managers, esp. Kroger.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 23, 2020 10:53 AM |
R10 they have 40 stores and are closing all but 7 of them.
If you're saying SF is San Francisco, then your store isn't the same as this chain.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 23, 2020 4:05 PM |
[quote]Fresh Thyme is another store that is semi-quasi organic and about the same size, and I honestly don't know how they stay open, either.
The Fresh Thyme nearest me in the Mpls suburbs is packed all day. A surprising number of shoppers are elderly. I think they like the small size, as many other stores these days are immense.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 23, 2020 4:13 PM |
My town of 48,252 has both a Whole Foods and The Fresh Thyme and they are both equally busy. I would prefer to shop The Fresh Thyme because their aisles are wider and the store is larger but not as cluttered as WF.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 23, 2020 4:20 PM |