New Retail Announced by Developer
 

At the Meet The Developer meeting tonight, two new retail operations were announced:

1. Talbots will open a store by Dec. 31. The location wasn't mentioned.

2. A Walmart Neighborhood Market will open on 466A across from Colony Plaza. Timing wasn't announced.

Walmart Neighborhood Market
 

Here's what it looks like:

Walmart Corporate - Photos of Walmart Neighborhood Markets

Wonderful news ... about both!!!!

NOT happy about Walmart!

I am delighted. After putting up with the rudeness and attitudes of employees at P at Colony, I will dance all the way to Walmart. Even if they are equally rude, At least I will save money. In your face.

New Retail Announced by Developer
 

The employees in Publix at Traverse Plaza are friendly, helpful and never have an attitude. Why would the Colony location be any different ?
Anyway, glad Walmart is coming. Competition is good, Publix is too expensive.

I've yet to receive anything but courteous, helpful service from Colony Publix employees. I shop there at least once a week. I also use Winn Dixie at Pinellas, mainly for the seafood since I feel they have a better selection. As far prices, I think Publix and Winn Dixie are both expensive. Let's hope one day Wegmans makes it's way down here.

I believe Talbots is going into Brownwood.

Izod, van heusen and warner's are coming to Brownwood.

:agree: Couldn't they attract a store a little more upscale ?

You don't have to buy clothing and accessories from Walmart. Check their prices on common things like coffee pots and food and annual flowers and office supplies.

Their corporate buyers have enormous buying power to get low prices for the consumer.

Too many people are Walmart snobs, quite possibly because they see a lot of people who don't have a lot of money shopping there. That in itself is a good thing. They do have low prices.

Gracie, always frugal.

That said, I love shopping for food most of the time at Publix...and Winn-Dixie for cookies. Wonderful cookies. The staff of life.

But Walmart has good glazed donuts, and cheap too.

This is from the article about the Night with the Developer from the site that must not be named about a new theater explained by Whitney Morse.

Next to Normal (Musical) Plot & Characters | StageAgent

Well, if you go to a Walmart take your camera. I love the Walmartians and PeopleofWalmart websites showing photos of Walmart shoppers.

That being said I shop at Walmart myself...

I don't think it is about "attracting" if a business wants to come, they will come.
BTW what is upscale....to you?

:BigApplause:

It would be great to have Wegman's, but low pricing has never been a strategy of theirs.

Walmart Neighborhood stores are really just grocery stores. No automotive, no furniture, no sporting goods, no lawn and garden, no clothing. They are smaller and usually have a nice frontage on them. There are a couple of them in and around Orlando.

Absolutely love Wegmans!!! I would spend my whole day there.

Just to clarify ... they are talking Walmart Supermarket w/Pharmacy ONLY. Not the kind of Walmart on 466 or 441. That is my understanding. These are popular in the St. Pete and surrounding areas.

Walmart Neighborhood Markets are not full department stores with a grocery section. They are more like or try to be more like a Fresh Market venue.....I know, I know they are not Fresh Market.....

Walmart Neighborhood Market Ready to Open in Greenville

:agree: just food..... Publix competition.....?

I learn something new here every day.

Reading previous posts about complaints of crowding at the Colony Publix, I would tend to think another supermarket in this area, would give people another choice to shop.

There is a pecking order for being upscale but I find that except for a few items, Walmart is a good place to shop. The prices are definitely lower.

Sale is a word that means, "I am going to rip you off for less than what I normally charge you for an item". IMHO

I would think any market down around colony would be a welcomed one.

Talbots is great. Way too many open spaces in brownwood and this is a good start. Not overly excited about Izod and Van Husen, but it will be nice to have them occupy empty spaces. I hope they all do a booming business and more stores will want to follow.

Went to a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Arlington TX recently. Nicely laid out and small enough to zip around. Surprisingly not Walmart like.

We were loyal Walmart shoppers in Utah. There were Walmart Stores (most were super stores) located about every 3 miles. The stores were clean, well organized and a pleasure in which to shop.

Here, based on the low income of the general area around The Villages, you see that reflected in the stores here. Friends of ours said
"Walmarts in Utah = Bloomgdales; Walmarts in Florida = Prision grounds". Now I certainly wouldn't make that observation, but there is a vast difference in the management of the stores here and in Utah......and not a good difference! You se that reflected in the clientele from outside the bubble.

The Walmart Neighborhood Market is simply a Grocery store/Pharmacy. With the overcrowding at Colony it will be a nice relief to shop across the street from that chaos at Colony parking situation. And Walmart Neighborhood Markets have rock bottom prices compared to Publix.

I wonder if this is not like the same concept of a Publix mini mart, in Ft. Lauderdale. There is one which has some items slightly down the street from my son's house and a full scale supermarket, a couple of blocks away.

Should be a welcomed addition to TV. :smiley:

Oh the lines for coupon customers!!! They price match everyone's prices too, right at the register.

:cus:

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This is not a traditional Wal-Mart. It was stated that it was a Neighborhood Market, which is mostly groceries. We had one in West Hartford CT and it was closed recently, but I loved it. Great prices and the people were great.

About 20 year ago we were in a Wally World in Sandy, UT. Our then 12 YO son commented on the way out that he lost us in the store for a while and couldn't find us because unlike stores in California everybody looked the same.

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Are they still your friends?

Traditional Walmarts have low prices and every strata of the population likes low prices, or should.

Many of us didn't start out with much but were careful with our money.

Many of us don't have to be as careful with our money as we did when we started out, but we still are.

I like that about this place. I like it a lot. We haven't forgotten how we got here.

Walmarts in NY= Walmart
Bloomingdales in NY= Bloomingdales
Walmarts in FL= Walmart

i have never, ever had any problem with rudness of employees at the Publix at Colony and I have been living nearby for 6 years.

Yes, competition to Publix and their prices built on their captive market of people who won't shop where their golf cart can't go.

The Walmart Neighborhood Markets are a supermarket with pharmacy, and they look like any other decent supermarket. If you didn't see the brand labels you might think you were in a supermarket in another state that you'd not heard of before.

Competition is good.

Nope, not enough Villagers will pay the prices for upscale.

Don't really get where this "mini" Walmart is going. Seems to me all the land across from Colony shopping center is currently occupied, mostly by medical offices.

Large block between Walgreens and McDonalds. Also large block behind the Medical Buildings but that could create traffic access issues.

I rarely go to Publix at Colony because of the crowded aisles and the rudeness of both the employees and customers. I have never in 54 years of being a Floridian ever seen a Publix run like that one.