On September 27, 2009
The Future Still Trying To Catch Save-A-Lot
Save-A-Lot was a small-format food retailer long before compact store concepts became popular among major chains, but it has been shifting from its original focus on grocery products to feature perishables and develop into more of a full-line supermarket operator for frugal consumers. And, in that way, it may be the supermarket of the future. In a certain manner, it came into being as the supermarket of the future. Launched by its former president Bill Moran in 1977 as an alternative format for customers of his food distribution operation who were being put out of business by rapidly expanding regional and national supermarket chains such as Kroger, the original model for Save-A-Lot was Aldi and the rational applied was that,…
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