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LockedSears needs Little Caesars back in the food section

posted on April 09, 2009 at 01:46PM Inappropriate?
Little Caesars and Sears can make this work.
replies: 21 latest post: August 11, 2009 at 03:47PM by gulicious
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posted on April 12, 2009 at 07:13PM
 

Little Caesars were not profitable. Simple as that.

posted on April 13, 2009 at 10:24AM
 

Yeah your right little caesars does not make alot of money. Here in columbus ohio their used to be little caesars it almost all of kmarts. Since they closed 5 kmarts a little of little caesars got closed to. Recently they closed a little caesars with in a kmart here just to expand on their merchandise.

posted on April 15, 2009 at 09:56PM
 
In response to John3265's post from April 13 2009 10:24AM

You are correct about the money. Kmart tried them back in the mid 90's and they went away. If you have enough volume you can make money or perhaps Kmart could sub lease space to them and the Kmart would have a figure it could count on for profit.

posted on April 16, 2009 at 10:27AM
 

As a kid, one of my best memories is of going to Kmart in Maplewood, MO and eating in their Cafeteria.  This was the real deal folks -- a true cafeteria in the back of the Kmart store.  It could seat at least 50 easily and they would bring the food to your table after they cooked it.

Now, granted, it wasn't fancy food -- hamburgers, simple things, but it was fresh and really good.  It was always a treat to go to Kmart with mom and eat in the cafeteria!

(I always remember when Sears had a restaurant in it on the top floor -- but that is a story for another day!)

 

posted on April 16, 2009 at 06:39PM
 
In response to rstinnett's post from April 16 2009 10:27AM
rstinnett said…

As a kid, one of my best memories is of going to Kmart in Maplewood, MO and eating in their Cafeteria.  This was the real deal folks -- a true cafeteria in the back of the Kmart store.  It could seat at least 50 easily and they would bring the food to your table after they cooked it.

Now, granted, it wasn't fancy food -- hamburgers, simple things, but it was fresh and really good.  It was always a treat to go to Kmart with mom and eat in the cafeteria!

(I always remember when Sears had a restaurant in it on the top floor -- but that is a story for another day!)

 


Yeah, I've also heard tell of Sears with salons in them. I've never seen one myself, but I have seen the Sears Optical, Photo, and MiracleEar centers.

posted on April 24, 2009 at 07:55PM
 
In response to BlueCrewGuyInMA's post from April 12 2009 07:13PM

I wonder how Wal-Mart is doing with Subway in their stores? unless they own them too or are subsizing the in-house sub eatery which is normally a franchise

posted on April 24, 2009 at 10:51PM
 

I am not sure but I am sure that they are getting  top dollar for the use of their space plus additional dollars if the business goes above a sales goal.

 

posted on April 26, 2009 at 11:26PM
 
In response to BlueCrewGuyInMA's post from April 16 2009 06:39PM

yah the Sears store in Augusta, GA still has a salon in there.

posted on July 30, 2009 at 10:47AM
 

The K-mart store near The Grove in California still has a LIttle Ceasers by it.

posted on July 30, 2009 at 11:20AM
 

I remember Kmart having the best chopped ham sandwiches.  I would always take a sackful home as they were so cheap!

posted on July 30, 2009 at 01:30PM
 

Bluecrew the reason why LIttle Ceasors weren't profitable was because the inability to manage them correctly. As with all food businesses you need to be running a very tight ship and/or high volume to make a profit. If you  are loose on anything you will see negative results immediately. There are Lil C's out there at the K's cause they are still very very profitable. Same concept goes with Auto centers :P Huge liability if run incorrectly, very profitable if run correctly.

posted on July 30, 2009 at 01:48PM
 

They got rid of the Little Ceasers in all the K-marts near us about a year ago, because they wanted more room for merchandise. (And the current K-Cafe's in those stores have about three tables and six chairs tops, and a counter only slightly larger than one checkout line to work with.)

It's ashame. I too loved the days when we had the huge K-Cafe and could get pretty much anything you wanted to eat while you sat around waiting for a great blue light special. I got grumpy when they took those out, but when they put in the Little Ceasers it kinda made up for it for a while, i mean seriously - $5 for a large pizza! how can you beat that?

posted on July 31, 2009 at 10:38PM
 

You should submit this as an Idea.

posted on July 31, 2009 at 10:45PM
 

I love Little Ceasars! :) Who can be profitable with $5 pizzas?

posted on July 31, 2009 at 10:58PM
 
In response to Jolie's post from July 31 2009 10:45PM

It's all about volume. Unfortunately, Kmart, and most Sears', just don't have the volume of customers to sell enough somewhat low margin pizzas to make the business model work. Plus, a lot of people want easy in/out to grab a $5 pizza, and you don't really get that with a big discount store.

posted on August 01, 2009 at 02:24AM
 

How about a popcorn cart?

Or, some brewed/iced coffee for the employees (voucher system)?

Oh! Soft pretzels...

Ok. Not good to post about food - while hungry...

posted on August 03, 2009 at 10:36AM
 
In response to AdamO's post from August 01 2009 02:24AM

A local Ace has a popcorn cart on Saturdays, so why not? :-)

posted on August 03, 2009 at 11:25AM
 

I remember when Sears had fresh popped corn (smelled so good throughout the store).  It also had a wonderful candy counter and a cafe!  Guess I am dating myself!

posted on August 03, 2009 at 12:18PM
 
In response to rochesterian80's post from August 03 2009 10:36AM

A nearby True Value hardware store has popcorn, too. Man, when that's cooking, all I can think about is getting some with a Coke. Is there anything better than fresh, hot, buttery, salty popcorn with a cold Coca-Cola?

posted on August 11, 2009 at 09:25AM
 
In response to BlueCrewGuyInMA's post from April 12 2009 07:13PM

My Kmart has nothing at all, not even a deli. Anything would be nice.

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