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Lou decruss

On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:21:02 -0400, wrote:

>On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:30:38 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888 >
>wrote:
>
>>Lou, you're used to shopping at a deep discount place. How did the
>>prices at Publix compare to Jewel?
>
>I don't know Jewel -- is that a regional store around Chicago? Analogous to Wal
>Mart?

Jewel is a higher end store with the prices to go along with it. It's
not as expensive or upscale as whole foods but nothing like walmart.
Wiki claims Jewel has a 40% market share in Chicago which I think is
high.
>
>The supermarket business operates on extremely low pricing and profit margins,
>typically in the 4% range. Publix, like all supermarkets, calculates their
>overall pricing taking into account their published coupons. When people use
>those coupons, Publix prices are carefully calculated to be within 1-2% of their
>lowest-priced competition, which, in the very limited number of states in whcih
>Publix is located, is Wal Mart.

It must be more complicated than that but I get the point. How the
profit is determined must have something to do with department profit.
Some areas are about the same in pricing and some are close to double.
The difference in deli meat and cheese pricing is amazing.

>>> I'm not a fan of Florida but I could get used to where we were.
>>> Central Forida from what I've seen isn't very nice. *My mom lived on a
>>> waterway that we could boat on to lake Kissimmee. *It was nice during
>>> the winter but the summer was not so much fun. *
>
>We like it down there, but then we're loons. My family lives in Lakeland, where
>Publix HQ is located, about forty miles east of Tampa. When we're down there, we
>play tennis every day. After ten am, we have all the courts in the tennis center
>to ourselves -- no one else is dumb enough to play in the heat. 8

>When I can convince my wife to retire, we'll probably end up in the Sarasota
>area, if I can't get her to agree to one of several Caribbean islands.
>

It all depends on the checkbook balance. Last night I was talking
with a friend who lived down there for 7-8 years and was making 260K a
year. He lost the gig in a buyout and hasn't been able to land
anything close to that since. His wife has become the bread winner
and they ended up back in Chicago but they'd both love to be back in
Florida. Some people love it there. He said there's only 4-5 months
of heat. Well keeping an open mind, here we have 3 months of cold and
3 months of heat so maybe it's not so bad. I sure wouldn't miss
owning a snow blower.

Lou