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Peoria's Southside Save-A-Lot to close June 2nd

Peoria's Southside Save-A-Lot to close June 2nd

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by: JustRight Active Indicator LED Icon 11 OP 
~ 6 years ago   May 23, '17 2:04pm  
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QuispNQuake Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 6 years ago   May 23, '17 2:32pm  
Okay, does this mean it's not officially a "food desert"? If they're closing due to "low sales"?
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~ 6 years ago   May 23, '17 2:40pm  
I mean, if no one is buying from them, is the need there? What's going on?
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~ 6 years ago   May 23, '17 4:22pm  
It stinks that lower income folks in the south end don't have multiple grocery shopping options closer to their home. Many of them take the bus and it can be a real hassle w/groceries.
 
On the other hand, what do we expect? The area is crime ridden and most transactions were likely done with snap or wic benefits. Not enough cash in the area to support it.
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~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 2:52am  
When Save a Lot first looked at opening on the south side, I was hired on to be the store manager, this was at the old Miracle Mart location. I waited two years to get that store up, but red tape and demographics told me to walk away. When it opened some years later, it didn't last long either
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QuispNQuake Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 6:43am  
When it opened some years later, it didn't last long either
 
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Do you know why that store didn't last long? I'm honestly baffled as to why the one on Western had to shut down. If you can't talk about it, that's okay. And please don't be insulted by the initial question. I'm just thrown by the whole thing.
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~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 7:11am  
georgeted Do you know why that store didn't last long? I'm honestly baffled as to why the one on Western had to shut down. If you can't talk about it, that's okay. And please don't be insulted by the initial question. I'm just thrown by the whole thing.

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No problem. Well when we were going into the space it was a challenge to have the landlord honor the changes made. Then we were promised a lot more security than was delivered. Theft was a huge problem, people were running out the door with massive amounts of food
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georgeted Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 7:14am  
Councilwoman Moore is blaming in part, competition, but Save a Lot has never been shy about that. They use the spoke system as far as distribution and sales
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Sonny76 Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 7:44am  
I get their ads every week. Let's be honest here. How many people want to go to the Southside of Peoria to grocery shop? I grew up there in the 60's but it is not what it once was.
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QuispNQuake Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 10:16am  
They use the spoke system as far as distribution and sales
 
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What is the "spoke" system? (I never worked retail.)
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joepyeweed Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 10:18am  
I never shopped there.
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QuispNQuake Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 10:20am  
Councilwoman Moore is blaming in part, competition, but Save a Lot has never been shy about that. They use the spoke system as far as distribution and sales
 
@georgeted
 
Podunkville, where I live, is only the size of the south side of Peoria. We have 2 "super" Walmarts, a "Super Kroger", Save-A-Lot, and Marsh Supermarkets. It's the Marsh Supermarkets closing down. Save-A-Lot hasn't languished at all.
 
We also have Aldi.
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QuispNQuake Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 11:17am  
What is the "spoke" system?
 
@georgeted
 
Scratch that. I just looked it up! Thanks for the info!!
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QuispNQuake Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 11:49am  
So I found this old article from the Journal Star, from 2008. I found it interesting;
 
Adams Street Market closes
 
Friday
Posted Jul 11, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Updated Jul 11, 2008 at 10:02 AM

The struggles of the Adams Street Market finally ended on Sunday with the store’s closing.
 
By Steve Tarter
 
The struggles of the Adams Street Market finally ended on Sunday with the store’s closing.
 
Since its opening last August, the market’s problems have been discussed at numerous City Council meetings.
 
A council-arranged security requirement finally proved too much for the market to handle, said a member of owner Ahmad Abud’s family.
 
Abud, a Chicago-area developer unavailable to be interviewed, had agreed to hire off-duty police officers at $30 an hour during evening hours in return for selling liquor at the store.
 
But that arrangement turned sour in a hurry. Less than two months after opening the store at 4103 SW Adams St., Abud was back before the council seeking to reduce the number of hours required for security officers in his store.
 
The supermarket’s location was a 15,000-square-foot building near Harrison Homes that once housed a Miracle Mart but had stood empty for more than a decade.
 
Despite spending $1.5 million on renovations to the building, business proved to be slower than projected at the site.
 
“In the grocery business you need six months to get started before you get regular customers to come to you. We might make it another two weeks,” he told the Journal Star last October.
 
Longtime South Peoria resident and neighborhood activist LaVetta Ricca said, while the security provisions might get the blame, the store failed because it didn’t live up to expectations.
 
“We need meat and fresh produce in this neighborhood. You can get canned goods anywhere.
 
“I told the owner that if he offered (meat and produce), I would be his best customer. But, if he didn’t offer those things, I would be his worst,” said Ricca, who accompanied City Councilman Jim Montelongo to the market two weeks ago to review the store’s status.
 
“There was no meat available. That had been gone a long time - maybe three to four months - and very little produce. It became just a convenient store with more liquor. People stopped going there.”
 
Ricca questioned the need for a grocery store to sell liquor in order to stay in business.
 
“Aldi’s (on Western Avenue) doesn’t sell liquor and it does a good business (in the South Peoria),” she said.
 
Steve Tarter can be reached at 686-3260 or [email protected].
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QuispNQuake Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 12:24pm  
Longtime South Peoria resident and neighborhood activist LaVetta Ricca
 
I have a tremendous amount of respect for this woman. I've seen her at City Council meetings. She's awesome!
 
I posted the article because I found it interesting that Aldi's was still thriving when the article was published. I know I was shopping there.
 
When Aldi's closed in 2013, I'm not sure a reason was given, was there?
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~ 6 years ago   May 24, '17 4:15pm  
It's the clientele my wife will drive to East Peoria or out to Hy Vee and we have a Kroger 6 blocks away. I thought she was nuts until I stopped in there with her.
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