... hurray for Hannaford!

[mcdude]

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By Jack Newsham Globe Correspondent June 24, 2015


The global parent company of Stop & Shop has agreed to buy the owner of Hannaford for $10.4 billion, creating the fifth-biggest US supermarket retailer in the industry’s biggest transaction for almost a decade.
Royal Ahold NV, the Dutch company that owns Stop & Shop, said buying the Delhaize Group would generate cost savings of $559 million per year by 2019. Both companies have grocery stores in several European countries and the eastern US, and Massachusetts is the main area of overlap between them.
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In the US, Delhaize Group operates the Hannafords and Food Lion chains. Ahold currently operates 131 Stop & Shop supermarkets in Massachusetts, and 214 across New England. Delhaize has 25 Hannafords in the state, and 183 in New England. Stop & Shop is the largest grocery chain in New England; Hannaford is the third largest.
Some elements of the deal are unclear. The companies said they expect the deal to close in mid-2016, but didn’t say whether any stores would be renamed or closed. There are also some differences between the chains owned by Ahold and Delhaize: Stop & Shop stores tend to be larger, and prices at the store are higher than at Hannaford, according to a survey by the non-profit Consumers’ Checkbook.
Still, analysts have said they expect the deal to be approved by government competition authorities. Barclays analysts said only about 5 percent of the companies’ US grocery stores could be described as “overlapping,” according to Bloomberg. Supermarket experts told the Globe the companies may have to sell off some of their locations, or they could try to make the case to regulators that the deal wouldn’t hurt consumers.

[dpg]

Hmmm I would of thrown the bad one in the trash.

[MeredithMan]

....most impressive point is that their staff is super-friendly, polite, and always willing to help you out.

[wifi]

Originally Posted by dpg

Hmmm I would of thrown the bad one in the trash.

Sounds like a continuing MO

http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/...2&postcount=71

[fatlazyless]

....say-hey....now I have something to do for the rest of the loooooong summer.....will go to every Hannaford in NH and look for $4.99 bags of fresh grapefruits where one of the grapefruit has a damaged naval, and looks to be going bad......hoo-buoy!!! ...what-a-great-racket! ... and I don't mean tennis racket!

[dave603]

That seems like some thing you would do.

By the way, that has always been Hannafords policy on everything they sell.

[GTO]

Originally Posted by dave603

That seems like some thing you would do.

By the way, that has always been Hannafords policy on everything they sell.

I bought a large turkey at Hannafords a few years ago and when we opened it to cook it, you could smell that it was bad. It was still well within the sell by date so I brought it back. They were all apologies. I just wanted to exchange it for another one but they gave me a gift card for double what I paid. I went back and got another bird and then bought some fixings with the "extra cash' and then put the fixings in the donation basket on my way out.

[BroadHopper]

Although we are talking produce, Market Basket double refund your money if you bought bad meat. I bought chicken one time. It was so bad, it smell up the whole kitchen! Return the chicken and double my refund, no questions ask!

My elderly aunt experience the same policy at Shaw's last year. I'm assuming it is an industry standard?

[hilltopper]

I bought a 30 pack the other day and when opened I found three empty cans that looked like a box cutter had gone through them. I brought in one can as an example and they gave me another 30 pack for free. Great policy...it almost makes up for their prices.

[ITD]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

....say-hey....now I have something to do for the rest of the loooooong summer.....will go to every Hannaford in NH and look for $4.99 bags of fresh grapefruits where one of the grapefruit has a damaged naval, and looks to be going bad......hoo-buoy!!! ...what-a-great-racket! ... and I don't mean tennis racket!

If you eat all that grape fruit you'll have to change your name to skinny lazy less.

[PaugusBayFireFighter]

Grapefruit and grapefruit juice are healthful, providing enough vitamin C, potassium, dietary fiber, and other nutrients to earn the American Heart Association’s “heart-check” mark. That’s the good news. The bad news is that grapefruit juice can interact with dozens of medications, sometimes dangerously.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/family...autionary-note

[Tired of Waiting]

Originally Posted by ITD

If you eat all that grape fruit you'll have to change your name to skinny lazy less.

Have you seen how much sugar he puts on the fruit? He didn't get that name using Splenda

[dpg]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

....say-hey....now I have something to do for the rest of the loooooong summer.....will go to every Hannaford in NH and look for $4.99 bags of fresh grapefruits where one of the grapefruit has a damaged naval, and looks to be going bad......hoo-buoy!!! ...what-a-great-racket! ... and I don't mean tennis racket!

Don't forget to pack your side-arm...Oh wait that's another thread...Sorry.

[rsmlp]

So let me get this straight, you buy six grapefruit and after a considerable period of time, return one bad one? Wow, you are perhaps the most miserly person I have ever heard admit to such a triviality. Did you not feel the least bit guilty about walking into Hannaford and presenting them with a bad grapefruit? The only reason they complied is it's not worth arguing with such a parsimonious customer.

[Merrymeeting]

Don't feed the trolls...not even with grapefruit!

[fatlazyless]

Originally Posted by rsmlp

So let me get this straight, you buy six grapefruit and after a considerable period of time, return one bad one? Wow, you are perhaps the most miserly person I have ever heard admit to such a triviality. Did you not feel the least bit guilty about walking into Hannaford and presenting them with a bad grapefruit? The only reason they complied is it's not worth arguing with such a parsimonious customer.

....say-hey....85-cents is 85-cents....and that one grapefruit was definately no good with what looked like an infected navel......so's I placed the receipt and damaged grapefruit into the plastic bag it came in......and then into my freezer to preserve the evidence knowing it could be a while before returning it....and about two weeks later.....bingo.....thankyou Meredith-Hannaford for turning my 85-cent expectation into a $9.98 megabucks, scrape-me-off-the-floor experience-amundo.....ho-ho-ho!

.....and then I reinvested the money into a new 4.99 bag of grapefruit....but could not-a-find-a-one with a similar infected navel....


......do you feel HANNAFORD'S lucky? I do!

[Misty Blue]

I heard that Stop & Shop was going to merge with A & P. They will call it
Stop & P.