The Times They Are A Changin

PrintA major supermarket, once the largest retailer in the United States, closed in bankruptcy after 156 years in existence. People much smarter and knowledgeable that we are could better explain the cause of its demise and, in hindsight, could explain how they knew, years and years earlier, it would happen. Ruminations can only offer that the facts and circumstances changed, but the company (meaning its people in charge) did not. But, this blog isn’t about history other than to use it as a platform upon which to stand when engaging in another fool’s errand – forecasting the future. The reason this now-gone supermarket comes to mind is “Uber.” We’ll get to that, but for now, please suffer along with us. This supermarket chain to mind insisted on “controlling” the retail projects where its stores were located – because it could. No community shopping center could “be” without a supermarket anchor. Who decided what…

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