Not impressed with WinCo
Just my opinion dept.
I'm not buying into the "Groceries are so much cheaper here" myth. The new WinCo foods apparently is trying to give that impression. Cereal is shoved on the shelf in turned-over cases, with one box stood up for display, guess which box customers throw in their carts. I spent five minutes replacing display boxes until Teresa made me stop.
The floors and lighting are purposely hideous. There is no muzak. It even smells funny, like something was spilled on aisle 9 but there was no one to call.
Many items are packaged in completely illogical amounts. Who wants ten pounds of carrots? I'm not kidding, ten pounds! Even if they were priced the same as the other store's regular size bag, what am I going to do with ten pounds? Rabbits would follow me home. They even make you bag your own groceries!
I've got a bit of advice; When people get wise to the fact that the prices aren't much cheaper than Safeway, they will avoid your store in droves. Cut your losses and sell that location, or completely revamp it if you can do it and still have reasonable profit; (The People won't let you have windfall profits for the stockholders and executives in the grocery business)
Take carrots for instance; print up some regular-sized bags with a big colorful bunny rabbit on it, and charge a premium price. Moms will appreciate that it helps them get little ones to eat their carrots. I don't know what you could put on the spinach cans, kids today don't know Popeye. But, you get the idea.
I don't know how we are supporting all these new stores- Where did people buy groceries before? We'll see you at Safeway.
I'm not buying into the "Groceries are so much cheaper here" myth. The new WinCo foods apparently is trying to give that impression. Cereal is shoved on the shelf in turned-over cases, with one box stood up for display, guess which box customers throw in their carts. I spent five minutes replacing display boxes until Teresa made me stop.
The floors and lighting are purposely hideous. There is no muzak. It even smells funny, like something was spilled on aisle 9 but there was no one to call.
Many items are packaged in completely illogical amounts. Who wants ten pounds of carrots? I'm not kidding, ten pounds! Even if they were priced the same as the other store's regular size bag, what am I going to do with ten pounds? Rabbits would follow me home. They even make you bag your own groceries!
I've got a bit of advice; When people get wise to the fact that the prices aren't much cheaper than Safeway, they will avoid your store in droves. Cut your losses and sell that location, or completely revamp it if you can do it and still have reasonable profit; (The People won't let you have windfall profits for the stockholders and executives in the grocery business)
Take carrots for instance; print up some regular-sized bags with a big colorful bunny rabbit on it, and charge a premium price. Moms will appreciate that it helps them get little ones to eat their carrots. I don't know what you could put on the spinach cans, kids today don't know Popeye. But, you get the idea.
I don't know how we are supporting all these new stores- Where did people buy groceries before? We'll see you at Safeway.
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