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CG: How Grocery Chains, Warehouse Clubs, and Dollar Stores Compete for Your Business

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🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Amazon has already begun to weaponize its Whole Foods stores, and we look at how competing retailers like Kroger and Costco are feeling the pressure. Meanwhile, the major dollar store chains are facing their own challenges from larger retail rivals.

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0:14.0

Welcome to Industry Focus to podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

0:21.0

I'm your host Vincent Chen and we are in studio here at full

0:23.6

headquarters getting this show ready for September 5th. And if you haven't heard it

0:28.5

already, be sure to check out our Bonus Labor Day weekend episode with an introduction to the

0:33.9

industry focus podcast, our newest host Sarah Priestley, and some trends and

0:38.4

companies that were watching in each of our sectors. For today we're answering

0:42.4

another listener question, been really busy with the mailbag,

0:46.1

and then we're going to revisit a corner of the retail industry that many analysts were

0:50.8

ready to write the obituary on a little bit for not too long ago but joining me via

0:56.3

Skype is Senior Fool.com contributor, Acyrma, welcome back, Acyt.

1:00.8

Thanks, Vince, as always, it's great to be with you today.

1:04.0

Yeah, this is related, this question I have for you is related to our first topic.

1:09.0

And to kick things off, I want to ask you you what is your preferred grocery store chain?

1:17.0

So my preferred grocery chain is actually one owned by Kroger.

1:22.0

It's Harris Teeter.eter extremely close to my house

1:24.3

bright stores well stocked but our family we shop second most at Whole Foods we have

1:32.2

a Costco membership we stop in at Trader Joe's. One or two things we get from food

1:36.8

lions. And a sprouts just opened around the corner from this Harris Teeter. So we frequent six to seven grocery stores. How about you events?

1:47.0

I'm surprised because I found that asking this question to some other fools here that a lot of people have quite a

1:53.6

bit of loyalty to their favorite chain I guess depending what's most

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