Grocery Wars: As Meijer Enters Mix, 'Something Has to Give'
Meijer plans to enter Oak Creek and add to a rapidly-crowding grocery market populated by Woodman's, Pick 'n Save, Target, Walmart and others. Is there enough business for everyone?
Since everybody has to eat every day, usually several times a day, there is an inevitability built into the grocery business. There will always be somebody ready to fill that need. But that doesn’t mean it isn't volatile. The retail grocery industry is highly competitive, and since the rise of the chain supermarket, it has typically been a high-volume, low-margin business. Demand for food is subject to changing tastes, offers of better service pricing, demographic shifts and and turns in the economy. Over the past two decades, the grocery business in metro Milwaukee has changed radically, and it is about to change again. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the arrival in the Milwaukee market of Meijer Inc., builder of supercenter stores …
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curious1
3:08 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Has the Meijer already been approved by the Oak Creek Plan Commission and Common Council? The flyer I received in the mail yesterday seems to imply this is already approved by the City. Seems to be a case of "this is what we are doing & if you don't like it, too bad." I thought the standard procedure for development in this City is that a public hearing must occur BEFORE something gets approved. … more ›