Remodel without reason?

WEEK 22 – Clarksdale Kroger Closing, Set I

 

Inside the store, as you'd expect with a Kroger greenhouse, in the front right corner we find the produce department, complete with those signature curved walls. What you may not have expected, however, is the décor: yes, this store was remodeled sometime fairly recently, to the 2012/bountiful package.

 

It's strange to try and analyze this decision, because a lot of the facts seem to contradict each other; for instance, you would think that the store must have been doing well enough to warrant this remodel, but at the same time, clearly it wasn't doing as well as Kroger would have liked for it to be targeted for closure. Seems like in that case, it would have made more sense simply to leave the store as-is without spending all the capital necessary to upgrade it only five or so years out from closing it...

 

(c) 2018 Retail Retell

These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)

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