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Originally Posted by gemstone1
"I swear it's the biggest city I've ever been in where there's only one supermarket chain competing for business. I wonder why that's the case?"....Last I remember, Meijer was in business there with at least 3 huge stores.
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Originally Posted by bartonro
Louisville has Meijer, which is a large grocer in the Great Lakes region. I thought I saw Walmart grocery stores too?
Edit...beaten above
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Just to quantify this a bit,
Kroger has a market share of 43% in Louisville Walmart is second place at 22%, and everyone else is single digits. In fact, if you add the market share of the 5 companies behind Kroger in Louisville, you'd still have less market share than Kroger. So while it is true that Louisville has a Publix now, and they have 4 Meijer locations in Louisville (
and 2 across the river), Kroger dominates the market by a wide margin. The biggest competitors to Kroger are department stores that sell groceries, not stores like Kroger where grocery is the core business.
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