Talk:No Frills (grocery store)

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There is a chain of No-Frills grocery stores in eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa (USA). I would like to add as much info as I can get my hands on if nobody objects.
Eclipse97 08:48, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Welcome to Wikipedia! I think it would make sense to start a new article about the Nebraska/Iowa chain. I will put a disambugation link into this article to get you started. Click on that link, and enter the info you have. Thanks! Ground Zero | t 12:35, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: * Free standing cardboard displays that were gaining popularity (especially with children's cereal and snack foods) all through the 80's were shunned by the No Frills chain. The no frills stores themselves originally only had shelves of products and none of the "fancy product displays". 
* Stores also charged for their grocery bags.  This was a big change from the standard complimentary bags given to customers at competitors like FoodCity, Dominion and Lawblaws.  Instead customers were encouraged to reuse the free cardboard boxes at the front of the store.  These boxes were often in perfect condition because items would be carefully removed when the boxes did not fit on the shelves.
* Stores then did not have bakery, pharmacy or butcher departments and proclaimed it was because these departments were an unnecessary cost.  [While this was true they also neglected to mention that many of their stores were too small to physically house these departments. An example of this is Joe's no frills at the Dufferin Mall. Lucky's no frills was in the same mall many years before it.  It was located roughly where the Toys R Us store is now.  That store was roughly a third of the size of the current Joe's no frills.] Now this has changed and larger no frills stores often have a Butcher, Bakery, Ready to Serve Meals, and Seafood departments.
* "no frills Won't Be Beat" price boards (introduced early 90's?). These black chalkboards were located at the front of the store in plain view of customers waiting in line at the checkouts.  Boards were updated up to five times daily. They included items like Butter, Milk, Diapers, Lettuce, Bananas etc., and compared the No Frills price to geographic grocery competitors including parent Lawblaws. Also included were date and time of last check for all the competitor stores. These boards are still in place today but lately have been comparing flyer special products and pricing.
* Stores carried the owners/franchisers name and later (early 90's) a picture of the owner was added to the no frills Won't Be Beat board. The success of this personalization technique has been suggested as one the reasons for the later "Club Pack" "Insiders Report" "Dave's Own" and "President's Choice" brands.
206.248.136.79 05:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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