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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Roman View Post
    Tops answer to increase customer service is to install self serve checkouts, while wegmans puts on an extra cashier. Tops on transit and French last year had employees out front on smoke break, very classy
    meh, I've encountered numerous times at a few different Wegmans where they didn't have nearly enough cashiers working. SO it' snot just a tops thing
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    I bet 90% of any of this is because the market is saturated with placed to buy groceries.

    Besides Tops, Wegmans, Aldi's, etc... there is BJ's, Sam's, Schwans and, the guy that drives a while pickup stopping in selling frozen fish/steaks, so on.

    There are only so many people in the area which means there is only so much money to be spent on groceries. Everyone eats but there is still a limit to how much 900,000 people can consume. You double up the businesses that cater to these people you end up dividing the amount of money spent at each business.

    This is one reason radio stations are going bankrupt in general. Years ago the cost to get into radio was expensive and basically a closed market. You had lets say 12 radio stations handling all the major advertising for a given area. Once the internet happened now you have access to dozens and dozens of "radio stations" to spend advertising dollars. The market wasn't all that bad but once something like SiriusXM "Radio" was available in cars that hurt the brick and mortar stations. Radio stations still had a locked market for drivers but then once they had access to SiriusXM that changed. My opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    I bet 90% of any of this is because the market is saturated with placed to buy groceries.

    Besides Tops, Wegmans, Aldi's, etc... there is BJ's, Sam's, Schwans and, the guy that drives a while pickup stopping in selling frozen fish/steaks, so on.

    There are only so many people in the area which means there is only so much money to be spent on groceries. Everyone eats but there is still a limit to how much 900,000 people can consume. You double up the businesses that cater to these people you end up dividing the amount of money spent at each business.

    This is one reason radio stations are going bankrupt in general. Years ago the cost to get into radio was expensive and basically a closed market. You had lets say 12 radio stations handling all the major advertising for a given area. Once the internet happened now you have access to dozens and dozens of "radio stations" to spend advertising dollars. The market wasn't all that bad but once something like SiriusXM "Radio" was available in cars that hurt the brick and mortar stations. Radio stations still had a locked market for drivers but then once they had access to SiriusXM that changed. My opinion.

    Same is true for WNY's television stations, That's why they got rid of their tv new helicopters, Ch 7 was Sky 7, Ch 4 was Sky Bird etc.... and they don't have web live streaming 24/7 news channels either like most of the rest country has

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    Quote Originally Posted by jennifer7 View Post
    Same is true for WNY's television stations, That's why they got rid of their tv new helicopters, Ch 7 was Sky 7, Ch 4 was Sky Bird etc.... and they don't have web live streaming 24/7 news channels either like most of the rest country has
    It's actually true across the USA. This isn't a "WNY" issue. Most local TV stations do not have 24/7 news channels. You might find a few that do but it's not the norm.

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