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Re:Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Hi... by maxerickson on Saturday October 15, 2016 @02:44PM (#12715154)
Kroger and Publix both seem to offer ~50,000 items in their larger stores.

They don't have a full department store and will thus likely have a greater variety of groceries than the Walmart, but they don't have greater variety overall. I would argue that they are a 3rd variety of big box (along with mega stores and club stores), not the same as Walmart.

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Re:Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Hi... by nickpsecurity on Saturday October 15, 2016 @02:55PM (#12715200)
Grester variety in food. I should've specified that. Also a lot of higher-quality stuff or at least branded as such.

Edit: It should be noted that Kroger is moving that direction with its Fred Meyer-style stores. They're more like Walmarts and Targets. Walmart even converted a failed store into a Walmart once although Im not sure the size of that one. Kroger is opening a Fred-style store close to me with descriptions that sounded like a Walmart. Will be interesting to see if these work and what effect they'll have on profit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Meyer

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