Admittedly, Fred Meyer is unique. For non-Northwesterners: a Fred Meyer store is, essentially, a full-service supermarket and a broad-based department/variety store combined -- essentially, an old-school general store that never stopped being general. (Fred Meyer may well constitute a major reason that WalMart has been relatively slow in expanding into the Northwest.)
That said, some years back Fred Meyer -- which had itself bought out a number of smaller Western regional grocery chains -- was itself bought by Kroger, and so is now part of a very sizeable national empire. Interestingly, Kroger's made very few visible changes in the Fred Meyer operating model, though on the flip side it's hard to tell how much influence the Fred Meyer generalist sensibility has had on Kroger's other divisions....
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Date: 2008-06-15 03:19 am (UTC)That said, some years back Fred Meyer -- which had itself bought out a number of smaller Western regional grocery chains -- was itself bought by Kroger, and so is now part of a very sizeable national empire. Interestingly, Kroger's made very few visible changes in the Fred Meyer operating model, though on the flip side it's hard to tell how much influence the Fred Meyer generalist sensibility has had on Kroger's other divisions....