Publix spices up recipe with Lithia meal-preparation store
It’s almost hard to keep up with the articles being written about this Publix offering. But I have to agree with the comment that meal prep is “an industry still trying to figure itself out”.
The idea of meal assembly grocery stores merging has been discussed for months now. Will the closing of other stand alone MA stores allow a grocery backed venture to find a market or will they follow the same path of short term interest, but then fade into obscurity? Will the dropping away of competition give them a foothold?
A lot of eyes are focused on the Lakeland-based chain’s first stand-alone store that opens Thursday at FishHawk Crossing shopping center. It’s part two of a test that began last October with a meal-assembly shop in a Jacksonville supermarket.“Publix will help define an industry still trying to figure itself out,” said Gary Karp, executive vice president of Technomic Inc., a Chicago research firm. A few grocers have similar experiments: a pair of South Carolina Piggly Wigglys and local chains in St. Louis and Philadelphia.
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