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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout
compact, neighbourhood-sized stores with an emphasis on quality -- like longo's -- will be the supermarkets that thrive over the next several years. stores that try to ape the wal-mart supercentre approach like loblaw's will only suffer.
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The grocery store market has increasingly gone to a two tier direction. In one direction there's the high end stores that focus on quality like Longo's and in the other direction is the discount stores like Basics, No Frills and Price Chopper. The middle market stores like Loeb, Safeway and Sobeys are going to get squeezed when Wal-Mart starts SuperCenters in Canada.
In my Ottawa suburb the retailer residents have wanted the most is Farm Boy, a local grocery chain that I suspect is similiar to Longo's. An outlet finally opened earlier this year and the parking lot is full whenever the store is open.