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Walmart Supercenter #2348 must have upgraded recently from an ordinary Walmart store with the inclusion of a supermarket with bakery, delicatessen, grocery, meat, and produce departments.
Wow, good catch. I didn't think they could do that without expanding the physical store which I thought they were shot down on. Admittedly, I rarely go to that store so they could have started selling Live Koala Bears and I wouldn't know. I wonder how they changed the interior space or added some (using some garden center space maybe?)
Yes, they added the grocery area just a few years ago.
Back story: Back in 2008 or so, Walmart wanted to fill in the wetlands behind the current Walmart Discount Cities store built in 1995 and build a giant Supercenter.
Residents and environmentalists killed it.
Walmart wound up exercising a loophole that allowed it to expand in place a certain percentage of their existing square footage, which required no approval. So they added something like 20,000 extra square footage and put in a small grocery area.
I was aware of that change but did that qualify it as a "super center"?
Wow, good catch. I didn't think they could do that without expanding the physical store which I thought they were shot down on. Admittedly, I rarely go to that store so they could have started selling Live Koala Bears and I wouldn't know. I wonder how they changed the interior space or added some (using some garden center space maybe?)
That's exactly what they did. What is there now is something like a smaller Supercenter that you might find in a smaller town.
And if they start selling live Koala Bears, I want one.
I didn't but didn't think of it as a full size grocery store. Definitely a player in the field though.
I'm no expert in the grocery biz... is it feasible to have all these grocery stores on James Isl or are we going to be waving bye-bye to Food Lion and/or Bi-Lo before long?
Food Lion's future is dependent on Ahold's acquisition of Delhaize, which should be completed by summer. Ahold could take the opportunity to bring Food Lion up to better standards of Giant-Landover, Giant-Carlisle, Hannaford, Martin's, and Stop & Shop. The opportunity may include adding pharmacies, lowering prices, improving quality products and fresh foods, and improving customer service and associates.
Food Lion will struggle in North Carolina as Publix further expands.
Bi-Lo appears to have ran its course in Beaufort, Horry, Lancaster and York counties, Chatham County, Georgia, and the entirety of North Carolina. Southeastern Grocers, parent of Bi-Lo, has already announced the closing of two Bi-Lo stores this year.
Walmart Supercenter #2348, 1231 Folly Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29412-4105
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Originally Posted by GroceryGuySC
Yes, they added the grocery area just a few years ago.
Back story: Back in 2008 or so, Walmart wanted to fill in the wetlands behind the current Walmart Discount Cities store built in 1995 and build a giant Supercenter.
Residents and environmentalists killed it.
Walmart wound up exercising a loophole that allowed it to expand in place a certain percentage of their existing square footage, which required no approval. So they added something like 20,000 extra square footage and put in a small grocery area.
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Originally Posted by LocalHero
Wow, good catch. I didn't think they could do that without expanding the physical store which I thought they were shot down on. Admittedly, I rarely go to that store so they could have started selling Live Koala Bears and I wouldn't know. I wonder how they changed the interior space or added some (using some garden center space maybe?)
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Originally Posted by LocalHero
I was aware of that change but did that qualify it as a "super center"?
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Originally Posted by GroceryGuySC
They're calling it a "Supercenter."
They're in the permit process to tear down the old "Play It Again Sam" store next to it and build a proper Supercenter.
Walmart Supercenter #2348 is still a Walmart, not a Supercenter, I take. Supercenter stores have a full supermarket, not just a grocery section.
If a proper Supercenter store is being built, I would expect it to include an auto service center and a fuel center.
Walmart Supercenter #2348 is still a Walmart, not a Supercenter, I take. Supercenter stores have a full supermarket, not just a grocery section.
If a proper Supercenter store is being built, I would expect it to include an auto service center and a fuel center.
It's a full grocery section in the sense that they have a full produce, full meat, full dairy, bakery, deli, etc. It's just shoehorned in the back and not ideal.
The then-new CEO of Walmart toured the store when he was in Charleston and wasn't a fan of how they did it and that got the ball rolling.
Walmart Supercenter #2348, 1231 Folly Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29412-4105
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Originally Posted by GroceryGuySC
It's a full grocery section in the sense that they have a full produce, full meat, full dairy, bakery, deli, etc. It's just shoehorned in the back and not ideal.
The then-new CEO of Walmart toured the store when he was in Charleston and wasn't a fan of how they did it and that got the ball rolling.
Is there a projection when the new Walmart Supercenter #2348 will open?
Walmart Supercenter #2348 does not have a fuel center and an auto service center. Many Supercenter stores have opened in recent years without auto service centers, possibly because of service and liability issues at existing locations.
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Walmart Supercenter #2348, 1231 Folly Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29412-4105
