This company has been sliding down a slope of unsuccessfulness since Central Grocers (Centrella Brand) brought in new clowns to their corperate office. These people came from failing companies, maybe not failing now since they're gone but, brought into a once successful company and are slowly killing it. When hired in, they cleaned house. People who had been with the company for decades were told "Your services are no longer needed here." From corporate to management. So then they brought in their buddies. Some with seedy work histories. Guess that kinda thing isn't important to some companies. They don't want to here the opinions of employees who are actually running the stores because, they know all the answers already. What areas sell certain items better than other locations. Well, if it sells in the wealthier areas it will sell in the low income areas too. That's their level of thinking. They've raised prices, lost customers, .remdeled stores, given away gift cards in hopes to bring people in. These do temporarily but, this is like putting a bandaid on a broken arm. It doesn't work. Sales are down because their techniques clearly failed so, what happens next? You cut hours of the employees running the stores as a way to make up for your mistakes. Departments run on slim hours as it is and more workload is put on dept. heads and managers. Then when the store isn't up to snuff they wanna know why? They want blame others than themselves. We can't force people to buy items. The names on the buildings are pretty much just that. Central has majority ownership of the stores. Not the family owned businesses of before when they were more involved.