- Joined
- Dec 16, 2019
This is it right here. Grocery stores have had their shit pushed in so damn hard by Walmart and the dollar stores that they have ALL gone upscale. Even the shitty little one a few towns over feels like a damn trader Jose’s now, it’s redickdock.That said, as part of the consolidation and as an answer to Walmart, many surviving chains have altered their focus, trying for fuller lines of product and more fresh/hot food options. This includes Publix, which Null inexplicably excludes from his Florida analysis. This grocer reaction widely started happening in the 2010s and only really got interrupted by COVID. Retail is still trying to get shit figured out with a lot of people getting staples through Amazon now
And cheeses are a great way to appear upscale without product that you have to remainder every five days. So they all have the tub-o-cheese now.
20 years ago it was a much different story with only the fanciest of grocery delis having much of anything beyond the massive block of cheddar. Now it’s all over the place. Even Walmart is getting in on this shit.