Жабық Bottom Dollar азық-түлік желісі

Defunct American soft discount grocery chain

Bottom Dollar Food is a defunct American soft discount grocery chain. It was a subsidiary of Delhaize America, the U. S. division of international food retailer Delhaize Group. Its headquarters was in Salisbury, North Carolina. Bottom Dollar Food sold an assortment of both private brands and national brands at low prices. To curtail costs, the grocer offered customers the option to buy bags to sack their groceries, and also used alternative display and stocking techniques, such as cut cases on shelves.

Bottom Dollar was created by parent Delhaize America at the same time as the upscale chain Bloom in 2004. The first store in Philadelphia was opened on April 15, 2011. Some industry analysts believed those markets were already overstored with discount competitors such as Aldi, PriceRite and Save A Lot. The restructuring resulted in the Bottom Dollar name disappearing outside of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In late February 2012, Bottom Dollar expanded into Pittsburgh and Youngstown, Ohio, neither of which have the parent Food Lion chain and are dominated by Giant Eagle. In these markets, Bottom Dollar also competed with various SuperValu supplied stores (including low price Save A Lot), Aldi, and Walmart. In spring 2013, in order to cut costs, Bottom Dollar started to require a quarter to use a shopping cart. When the quarter was inserted, the cart would be unlocked from the other carts. When the cart was returned, the customer was refunded their coin, effectively costing the customer only the time to return the cart. This was a practice also used by Aldi. Though ubiquitous in Europe, where both Aldi and Bottom Dollar's parent company Delhaize Group are headquartered, it is rare in American stores which often have employees return carts left in parking areas. In August 2014, it was learned that Delhaize wanted to sell all 66 of its remaining Bottom Dollar stores Forty six of the stores were located in the Delaware Valley and Lehigh Valley in southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and 20 in the Pittsburgh Youngstown corridor of Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio. Bottom Dollar stores were reported to range in size from 16,848 square feet (Ambler, PA) to 30,352 square feet (Catasaqua Road, Allentown, PA), an average store being about 20,000 square feet, with weekly sales volumes from $296,800 (North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA) to $103,000 (East Windsor, NJ), the average sales being around $150,000 weekly. The stores were scheduled to close on January 15, 2015, but closed three days early on January 12 due to all the stores selling out their inventory quicker than expected. Aldi hasn't announced whether or not it will reopen any of the locations, although Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto is reportedly in talks with Aldi to reopen a Bottom Dollar location as an Aldi in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Garfield, as there is no other grocery store in the neighborhood. Delhaize finalized the sale of the shuttered locations to Aldi on March 27, 2015, with plans to reopen 30 of the locations purchased as Aldi, including the aforementioned location in Pittsburgh's Garfield section. The remaining locations—all of which are near existing Aldi locations—will either be flipped or sublet by Aldi.

The stores sold the My Essentials and Hannaford private brands. Bottom Dollar Food competed with other discount supermarket chains including PriceRite, Save A Lot, Aldi, and C Town Supermarkets.