Our financial system is crumbling this week.

[lukethedrifter]

BTW, fun fact. The Shop N' Save on Chippewa and S. Kingshighway has been the 2nd in sales in alcohol in the St. Louis area more than once...#1? Busch Stadium.

Really, that place is a glorious dump.

I can work with that.

[wart57]

Back at a previous job:
1 case of 72 Cukes cost about $8.50 delivered to the warehouse. That came to about $.12 per cuke. We sold them 2 for $1.00.

[Hungary Jack]

did I mention my department contributed over a billion in profit to the company?

"Profit", or "revenue"?

If your company made 1 billion in profit, I don't think there's any need to cut raises this year...

Profit. My division of the company, there are quite a few other divisions, some didn't do as well, but we still don't get our merit raises.

$1 B in profit in the grocery industry probably translates to $20B in sales if one assumes net margins are around 5% (3% may be more accurate, which translates to $33B in sales). That is one big division.

try 40% margin....

no way that is net. must be gross? alcohol sales?

[lukethedrifter]

Back at a previous job:
1 case of 72 Cukes cost about $8.50 delivered to the warehouse. That came to about $.12 per cuke. We sold them 2 for $1.00.

When I sold auto parts I discovered the markup to be similar for oil and air filters, etc.

[cardinalkarp]

BTW, fun fact. The Shop N' Save on Chippewa and S. Kingshighway has been the 2nd in sales in alcohol in the St. Louis area more than once...#1? Busch Stadium.

Really, that place is a dump.

I've seen worse

So have I, but that doesn't mean its not a dump.

[wart57]

did I mention my department contributed over a billion in profit to the company?

"Profit", or "revenue"?

If your company made 1 billion in profit, I don't think there's any need to cut raises this year...

Profit. My division of the company, there are quite a few other divisions, some didn't do as well, but we still don't get our merit raises.

$1 B in profit in the grocery industry probably translates to $20B in sales if one assumes net margins are around 5% (3% may be more accurate, which translates to $33B in sales). That is one big division.

try 40% margin....

no way that is net. must be gross? alcohol sales?

I said division, but really should have said department or goup. We have over 1000 stores.

[TimeForGuinness]

BTW, fun fact. The Shop N' Save on Chippewa and S. Kingshighway has been the 2nd in sales in alcohol in the St. Louis area more than once...#1? Busch Stadium.

Really, that place is a dump.

I've seen worse

So have I, but that doesn't mean its not a dump.

I don't mind it...but then again comparing it to a West County grocery store...everything is a dump.

[cardinalkarp]

BTW, fun fact. The Shop N' Save on Chippewa and S. Kingshighway has been the 2nd in sales in alcohol in the St. Louis area more than once...#1? Busch Stadium.

Really, that place is a dump.

I've seen worse

So have I, but that doesn't mean its not a dump.

I don't mind it...but then again comparing it to a West County grocery store...everything is a dump.

The Hampton Village Schnucks is nice and close enough that I would pick that place 10 out of 10 times.

[haltz]

Vincent's Market FTW

[JL21]

Hampton Village Schnucks is ok, but it doesn't have much character. They've specialized most Schnucks to their respective area- for instance, there are more Italian options at the Schnucks on Arsenal. It seems that Hampton Village is specialized for boring people. (which probably makes me one because I do my shopping there, but you get the point)

And the beer selection at that Schnucks sucks donkey wang. Probably 60 to 75% of it is A-B products or Miller products. And then they throw you some Schlafly, the major other brands (Guinness, Newcastle, Sam Adams, Corona), and that's it.