Publix is struggling against competition

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Originally Posted by lukas1973

I can just go to my local Edeka store. It's definitely much more high-end than Wegmans, hands down:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08MuKo8NdxE&t=476s




Practically every supermarket has a cheese shop. And these days every decent supermarket has a wine bar, a room for dry aged beef, a sushi chef and so on. And selling fancy food at horrendous prices alone doesn't make a supermarket high-end.
Just watch your Wegmans video. Repulsive yelling price tags, advertising huge portions of fast food garbage, disposable beverage cups and a dodgy clientele is the complete opposite of high-end.
Judging from your video, Wegmans is a million miles away from high-end.

In Germany we have a grocery chain, called Real, their stores are quite similar to Walmart Supercenters, just about 30-40% smaller. Their stores normally look similar low end like Walmart stores. Recently they have completely remodeled one store. This store has now a sushi chef, an oysters bar, a wine bar and so on. But you can also eat pizza and other fast food dishes. The design of the store looks to me more upscale than a Wegmans store but no one would consider this store high-end, it's still a Real:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjgY-gW87oo

This is a discussion about U.S. retail (Publix and its competitors), not European food retail. Which is of course leagues ahead of U.S. grocery stores and a completely different market altogether.