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Re: Smith's/PriceRite/Food4Less Las Vegas

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Store # 188 80 N. Acoma Bl. Lake Havasu City AZ 86403 (Still Smith's)
Store # 190 3490 Stockton Hills Rd. Kingman AZ 86401 (Still Smith's)
Store # 192 201 N Switzer Canyon Flagstaff AZ 86001 (Fry's)
Store # 193 950 W. Fair Street Prescott AZ 86301 (Fry's)
Store # 194 4036 N. 1st St. Tucson AZ 85719 (Fry's)
Store # 195 7050 E. 22nd St. Tucson AZ 85710 (Fry's)
Store # 196 2950 W. Ina Road. Tucson AZ 85741 (LA Fitness / Home Style Galleries)
Store # 197 2480 N. Swan Rd. Tucson AZ 85712 (Fry's)
Store # 198 902 W. Irvington Rd Tucson AZ 85714 (Fry's)
Store # 199 10380 E Broadway Tucson AZ 85748 (Safeway then Haggen and has been sold back to Albertsons/Safeway)
Store # 306 7565 W. Peoria Ave. Peoria AZ 85345 (Subdivided - multiple small businesses but mostly vacant)
Store # 307 500 W. 24th St. Yuma AZ 85364 (Fry's)
Store # 308 1135 N. Recker Rd. Mesa AZ 85205 (Subdivided - Fitness Works and Accelerated Physical Therapy)
Store # 310 857 N. Val Vista Dr. Gilbert AZ 85234 (Subdivided - PetSmart, Dollar Tree, and Sears Outlet)
Store # 312 1575 Dysart Rd Avondale AZ 85323 (Fry's)
Store # 313 1245 West Main St. Mesa AZ 85201 (Fry's)
Store # 314 9245 W Union Hills Dr Peoria AZ 85345 (Fry's)
Store # 315 435 Ellisworth Rd Mesa AZ 85208 (Fry's)
Store # 318 730 S. Cooper Rd Gilbert AZ 85233 (Subdivided - Desert Fitness / Wilkins Learning Center / ACE Hardware)
Store # 320 6321 E. Greenway Phoenix AZ 85254 (Fry's)
Store # 321 4025 E. Thunderbird Rd. Phoenix AZ 85032 (Fry's)
Store # 322 10660 Grand Ave Sun City AZ 85351 (Fry's)
Store # 324 3255 South Rural Rd. Tempe AZ 85282 (Fry's)
Store # 325 10450 N. 90th St. Scottsdale AZ 85258 (Fry's Signature)
Store # 327 4202 W. Cactus Rd. Phoenix AZ 85029 (Fry's)
Store # 330 2075 N. Alma School Rd. Chandler AZ 85224 (Fry's)
Store # 333 17232 N. 19th Ave. Phoenix AZ 85203 (Kohl's)
Store # 335 4505 E. Thomas Rd. Phoenix AZ 85018 (Fry's)
Store # 336 4329 W. Northern Ave. Glendale AZ 85301 (Fry's)
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Re: Smith's/PriceRite/Food4Less Las Vegas

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Excellent work, all - I've added it to my Kroger spreadsheet.

As of 2021 store #571 is still bannered a Price Rite - for anyone in the know, does that store still operate under Price Rite standards?
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Re: Smith's/PriceRite/Food4Less Las Vegas

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BatteryMill wrote: 06 Oct 2021 13:16 Excellent work, all - I've added it to my Kroger spreadsheet.

As of 2021 store #571 is still bannered a Price Rite - for anyone in the know, does that store still operate under Price Rite standards?
I'm not sure how to answer this question. The store runs Smiths ads, bags, receipts, etc. Has for the past 20 years. Really the only thing that says Price Rite is the bottom sign outside (the top sign says Smiths). Within the past couple years, some improvements were made to the store. I suspect the improvements involved bring in used signs that got pulled from other stores in remodels. Prior to that, it basically had a very old Smiths interior that probably dated back to the 70's or 80's and just looked like a very old run down conventional supermarket, not a warehouse store. I was shocked at the condition of this store with that old Smiths interior. Smiths had a lot of run down stores stuck in the 80's or 90's that Kroger never spent any money on until the past 5-10 years; this place took the cake for being run down.

As far as the improvements made recently, the store didn't exactly receive what I'd call a remodel. But it received some paint, some new aisle hangers, they also knocked the walls away from the bakery/deli prep and you can see all of the equipment now.

There are a couple other NM Smiths that received similar "improvements" over the years. Improvements that are clearly not a standard issue remodel but seem to be some trick to use supplies up or move used but newer than what the store had stuff around.

Sherwood, NM
Albuquerque - 111 Coors- this store would be more appropriate to have the Price Rite branding. This is a former Furr's and it seems like it was developed as a halfway Food 4 Less type of place
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Re: Smith's/PriceRite/Food4Less Las Vegas

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storewanderer wrote: 15 Oct 2021 01:57
BatteryMill wrote: 06 Oct 2021 13:16 Excellent work, all - I've added it to my Kroger spreadsheet.

As of 2021 store #571 is still bannered a Price Rite - for anyone in the know, does that store still operate under Price Rite standards?
I'm not sure how to answer this question. The store runs Smiths ads, bags, receipts, etc. Has for the past 20 years. Really the only thing that says Price Rite is the bottom sign outside (the top sign says Smiths). Within the past couple years, some improvements were made to the store. I suspect the improvements involved bring in used signs that got pulled from other stores in remodels. Prior to that, it basically had a very old Smiths interior that probably dated back to the 70's or 80's and just looked like a very old run down conventional supermarket, not a warehouse store. I was shocked at the condition of this store with that old Smiths interior. Smiths had a lot of run down stores stuck in the 80's or 90's that Kroger never spent any money on until the past 5-10 years; this place took the cake for being run down.

As far as the improvements made recently, the store didn't exactly receive what I'd call a remodel. But it received some paint, some new aisle hangers, they also knocked the walls away from the bakery/deli prep and you can see all of the equipment now.

There are a couple other NM Smiths that received similar "improvements" over the years. Improvements that are clearly not a standard issue remodel but seem to be some trick to use supplies up or move used but newer than what the store had stuff around.

Sherwood, NM
Albuquerque - 111 Coors- this store would be more appropriate to have the Price Rite branding. This is a former Furr's and it seems like it was developed as a halfway Food 4 Less type of place
If it were a Price Rite, then would there have been signficantly different promotional material designed for this store? And I did notice, it was quite bare-looking, not resembling any other Smith's package.

Anywho, he best advice I'd have at this point is that one would need to compare prices with any Smith's stores that have always been regular-branded locations. Also what do the last 2 locations signify?
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Re: Smith's/PriceRite/Food4Less Las Vegas

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I would just ad that this store was originally a brand new Smith's superstore. The Price Rite division of Smith's started in the 90s with the purchase of the Las Vegas Megafoods stores. As they were very successfull, Smith's started giving Pricerite some of the dogs in the rest of the Southwest region. Unlike Las Vegas and the one Albuquerque store, the other Pricerite conversions mostly didn't work out and were then closed. Vegas was transferred to Food 4 Less / Ralphs and Albuquerque soldered on alone!
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rnaikens wrote: 07 Jan 2023 15:25 I would just ad that this store was originally a brand new Smith's superstore. The Price Rite division of Smith's started in the 90s with the purchase of the Las Vegas Megafoods stores. As they were very successfull, Smith's started giving Pricerite some of the dogs in the rest of the Southwest region. Unlike Las Vegas and the one Albuquerque store, the other Pricerite conversions mostly didn't work out and were then closed. Vegas was transferred to Food 4 Less / Ralphs and Albuquerque soldered on alone!
There was another thing in the early 00's, Smiths took a dog store in some Salt Lake City suburb and rebranded it to something called Save & Gain. Not sure why they came up with a new brand. Cut the heck out of product mix, handwritten signs all over, not really sure what they were going for with it. That was completely a Smiths thing. It didn't last very long, that happened before Smiths chainwide largely went under the price cut/right store right price program of Kroger.
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