Hard to believe but they were even more expensive than Whole Paycheck. They have a location right near me. I guess they could not compete with Whole Paycheck after Amazon bought them.
Lucky’s Market, another organic/healthy ingredient chain, announced they’re closing 32 out of 39 stores.
Lucky’s is owned by Kroger, so I don’t think deep pockets was its problem.
Fixtures are on sale!
I’ve always wanted my own meat and seafood display case.
39 stores to Kroger is pocket change. They have 3000+ stores.
Lucky’s has been around for years. They were bought by Kroger’s a few years back, who decided to use the stores to try to compete with Sprouts and Whole Foods. Unfortunately, Lucky’s stores had been low cost stores serving poorer neighborhoods for a long, long time. It’s no surprise at all that upscaling them didn’t work. The neighborhoods couldn’t support it.
I hope that those neighborhoods don’t end up food deserts.
I bet Whole paycheck takes over some of their locations where WP does not have a store.
I think there are two store chains that may be confused; Lucky’s Market (Boulder based and is the one that is closing stores) and Lucky Stores (California based and not closing stores).
I don’t mourn a closing like this. “Natural” and “organic” are largely ripoffs and in many case are worse for the environment.
Kroger, Safeway, Harvest Foods, and Piggly Wiggly all left this part of the world. They couldn’t compete with Walmart Super Center.
I did not know this. Thank you!
Not to hijack, but I gotta ask. Why do people do this? Like, we get the joke already.
Sorry but I always call them whole paycheck. Just a habit of mine. and I say BCBS is blue cross blue shaft. Got that from Carson.
I don’t get the joke… I assume we’re talking about an expensive store that’s not where I live?
It’s called Whole Foods. Some people think it’s clever or funny to call it Whole Paycheck for some reason. They then run that “joke” into the ground.
I’m in Indiana and around here we have walmart super centers, but we also have Kroger, Aldi and Meijer as our main grocery chains.
We used to have Marsh, but those went bankrupt (the one in Bloomington, IN became a Luckys, now that is gone too).
I mean here, Kroger has had no problem competing against Walmart. Meijer hasn’t either.
wow, marshes went out? they and Krogers were the big stores in the 80s in Indiana … i suppose the "superstores " like Meijers drove them out …
yes whole foods a supposedly 100 percent organic was considered one of if not the most expensive grocery store chain in America for many years … I think amazon has brought their prices down but its still expensive
We used to have Food Town but they had to change their name due to another chain with that name. They picked Food Lion which is odd but the story is they picked Lion so they could reuse the O and N from the old Town signs.
Yeah, the same people relentlessly call that one city Lost Wages as if they were the first to think of it and had it trademarked. Enough already.
never heard Lost Wages but here in NC we have Fayettenam due to Ft Bragg being there