Save-A-Lot
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Save-A-Lot is a grocery store chain that is the thirteenth-largest retail chain and fifth-largest chain under a single banner with more than one thousand stores in the United States and $4 billion in sales. They are headquarted in Earth City, Missouri. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of SuperValu.
Save-A-Lot was founded in 1977, and is a US knockoff of Aldi food stores. Both Aldi and Save-A-Lot compete for the same market. They claim that their products are 40 - 60% cheaper than other stores. Their brands tend to be slightly more expensive than Aldi's; however, their products tend to be of a higher quality.
Save-A-Lot's store format is a limited-selection store, which they call edited-choice store. A limited-selection store is one in which they carry only the most popular items and only in the most popular size. Save-A-lot stores have about 1,250 grocery items per store and restrict their store sizes to roughly 15,000 square feet (1,400 m²). They carry what are perceived by some to be inferior goods, which they prefer to call "exclusive label brands", and some name-brand products. The Save-A-Lot brands (none of which bear the Save-A-Lot name) tend to be of a middling to high quality and tend to be of a much higher quality than other store-named brands. The stores typically lack shelves and instead have the items in cut-out cardboard shipping cases. You must bag your own groceries at Save-A-Lot.
Save-A-Lot purchased the Deal$ dollar store chain in 2002. Many Deal$ stores are located physically inside of Save-A-Lot stores in a format they call the Hybrid Store.
External link
Save-A-Lot Website (http://www.save-a-lot.com/)