Chedraui Owie

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I hate to come across as a Negative Nellie but our overall impression of the new Alaia mall is really disappointing. After the two years of construction, disruption and destruction of natural surroundings, we get a nice Liverpool store with easy ground-level access combined with about 40 no name retailers, a food court not worthy of the title and the 300th Chredraui supermarket. Unfortunately, their site plan necessitated that most parking is underground and it resembles a bunker, isolated, poorly lit and with no security visable to us. Reports of vandalism and auto break-ins down there have already been in the local press. Susan’s comment was spot-on, “ it looks like Liverpool got the primo anchor location and parking then all the others jumped in on the leftovers”. Liverpool also opened early, in April, well before the full mall.
I mention the Chedraui store count only to reinforce how universally bad this organization’s management must be. It was only their 5th or 6th day since opening and already the store looked dirty, its selection haphazard and a staff that collectively wanted to be working elsewhere. We had seen this same dismal scene at the Chedraui in Tepic and were hopeful things here might go better. They haven’t.
We should not equate the advanced management at Walmart and its subsidiaries to Chedraui. Regardless of one’s personal experiences and impressions of the Walton Empire, one must acknowledge their mastery of logistics and tight inventory controls with 12,000+ locations and over 2 million employees.
Sr. Chedraui, who personally did the ribbon cutting here for #300, could benefit from a class or two at Walton U.
Aside from the excellent Liverpool experience we likely will continue to shop elsewhere.