Omaha's Best Grocery Stores

[lisanstan]

I will not shop at Bakers. I refuse to have to carry a damn loyalty card to get the lower price.

[HskrFanMike]

How is that any different from having to clip coupons in the store ad?

Unless you pay for your groceries with cash, I'm not sure I understand any of the objections to using a loyalty card. If you use a credit/debit card...they'll track you that way. Some places can even track you with your check.

If you don't like carrying another card, you can either scan it with a smartphone or just enter your phone number in at the register.

And in the grand scheme of things, Bakers knowing that I buy a lot of milk, bread, and Totino's pizza isn't exactly a big hit to my privacy.

[S33]

I thought all grocery stores had loyalty cards?

[GRANDPASMUCKER]

Saturday I walked into the Aldi in Bellevue and the first thing I pick up to look at is a bag of soft taco shells and there is 2 bugs crawling across the front of the bag. I left and did not buy anything. I felt bad as I knew I should not of been in that place and should not of needed those bugs to remind me of it!

[Coyote]

Who's the leader in Omaha's competitive grocery market?

In Omaha, Walmart took in $31.60 of every $100 spent on groceries in the area in 2014 at its Supercenter, Sam’s Club and Neighborhood Market stores combined. That was up from $26.90 two years earlier, according to Chain Store Guide estimates. The estimates are modeled for the local area based on average store sales.

Hy-Vee lost more than a percentage point of market share in that time, and in 2014 took in $18.60 of every $100 spent on groceries in Omaha, compared with $19.90 two years earlier.

[jessep28]

Are percentages not cool anymore? Yeah, let's express market share as a dollar amount out of $100.

[skinzfan23]

I was surprised that HyVee wasn't higher, but when you count all the supercenters and neighborhood stores, Walmart outnumbers them by quite a bit just in number of stores.

I am glad for the consumer that we have so many. Competition is good for keeping prices low. I lived in eastern iowa and outside of a few walmarts, aldi and fareway, you only had HyVee to choose from. I don't think the deals were as good as we see here all the time.

[Busguy2010]

I live a couple blocks from Harold's Square No Frills, and that place is declining in the competition with the Neighborhood Market on 90th. They need to do a hard remodel to the whole square or it won't keep up.

I think this would be a great opportunity for Spartan Nash to join the Grocery-Gas business, as Steve's Service is trying to sell. Could tear it out and build sort of a Hy-Vee size gas station to generate some movement.

[debradomayer]

That No Frills is closing in the near future. I believe by the end of the 1st quarter

[skinzfan23]

Walmart’s online ordering service expands to five Omaha-area Supercenters

Five Omaha-area Supercenters are part of the retailer’s expanding online ordering and in-store pickup service. The service launched nationally in February 2015 and is now available in more than 40 markets, including Omaha and Kansas City but not Lincoln, Des Moines or the Twin Cities.

Walmart’s service launched in Omaha in May and is now being advertised here. It’s free and has a minimum purchase of $30.

Participating stores are:
» 16960 West Maple Road, Omaha
» 18201 Wright Street, Omaha
» 8525 S. 71st Plaza, Papillion
» 10504 S. 15th Street, Bellevue
» 1800 N. 16th Street, Council Bluffs

[GRANDPASMUCKER]

Walmart’s online ordering service expands to five Omaha-area Supercenters

Five Omaha-area Supercenters are part of the retailer’s expanding online ordering and in-store pickup service. The service launched nationally in February 2015 and is now available in more than 40 markets, including Omaha and Kansas City but not Lincoln, Des Moines or the Twin Cities.

Walmart’s service launched in Omaha in May and is now being advertised here. It’s free and has a minimum purchase of $30.

Participating stores are:
» 16960 West Maple Road, Omaha
» 18201 Wright Street, Omaha
» 8525 S. 71st Plaza, Papillion
» 10504 S. 15th Street, Bellevue
» 1800 N. 16th Street, Council Bluffs

Why in the name of common sense would anyone use that service when they could have Hy-Vee bring the groceries right to their front door with a smile? I don't get it. I have even been getting e-mails from Walmart offering $10 worth of free groceries off the first time I use that service. I just delete those e-mails, Grandpa knows shopping at Walmart for groceries is for the suckers.