Posted Jan 25, 2013, 1:13 PM
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Originally Posted by vid
We won't have a more competitive grocery market though. We currently have five food suppliers here: Weston (serving Superstore and Wholesale Club), Walmart (three locations), Safeway (three locations), McDonalds Consolidated (a Safeway affiliate serving two Family Foods stores, and two local stores called Renco Foods), and Metro (three locations). If Metro buys out Safeways, McDonalds Consolidated will probably switch their private label supplier, which means we will have 10 grocery stores here in the Metro supply chain, and only three major players in our grocery market. We will have five Metro-supplied stores within a 1.5 mile radius of each other. All but one grocery store in Fort William will be supplied by Metro. The only competition will be a Walmart.
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You're making a lot of assumptions, the biggest being that Metro will be the acquirer.
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Originally Posted by vid
As I have explained many times before, Safeway has had a presence in this region for over 80 years. It is the only grocery store brand left in Thunder Bay that was here when I was a kid.
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I get that, but McDonald's has likely been around since you were a kid too.
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