Walmart coming to Mercerville (this is GOOD news!)

[wardwhirlboromarlpool1955]

I hope if the Walmart plans are shot down here, Food Bazaar can open a store at this site somewhere, and perhaps the operators of the furniture store (I forget the name) next to the Edwards/Super G/Food Bazaar can open a second store here to mirror that one, and use up all the empty space here. If not, Save-A-Lot, Supreme Shop N Bag, and Big Lots all have stores in Mercerville which are old and tired, and perhaps could be upgraded by moving here. Same with Great Valu which has a store in a former Grand Union in Lawrenceville, and I think the farmer's market currently at the former A&P/Super Fresh site could use a larger and brighter space, as could the Ace Hardware store in the former Acme next door.

[wardwhirlboromarlpool1955]

It seems nothing in Greater Philly owned by Supervalu can last as part of Supervalu. The Shop N Save stores they owned here (part of a chain which they still own in Pittsburgh, and in Philly were former Super G stores) failed, with at least one sold to ShopRite, then they decided to sell Acme/Albertsons, and now they won't even have any mainstream supermarkets to sell their HomeBest store brand items at. Save-A-Lot seems to be dying too. Their store in South Philadelphia closed without being replaced, as happened at least two other places in PA, in Easton (Lehigh Valley) and Berwick (coal region). I hope Amelia's Grocery Outlet can buy the remaining Save-A-Lot stores in Greater Philly. It would take almost no remodeling whatsoever to switch the stores to the Amelia's format, but the stores would have to close perhaps overnight to be restocked with brand name items, while Save-A-Lot mostly sells generics.

[mrjohnnyt]

Let's face it most Walmart shoppers are on government benefits, so are the employees.
So in effect they are reducing the cost of government providing a subsistence living to those whose jobs have been destroyed by globalization, outsourcing, and immigration. (and Walmart).
There is a bottom dollar store coming to east windsor (NJ) and the crew who is renovating the store are from North Carolina. Just shows how NJ labor prices itself out of the market and leads to more job losses.

[NJmmadude]

Down the street here the Stop and Shop merged with the A and P, now it's a Stop and P.