DISCUSS!
bouth names r kida funny to me they just don't seem as creative as Caldor Or Ames
and hears Shop Ko
that's a nice store... I like it! It's different
ShopKo is a regional discount store chain that's based out of Green Bay, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1962 by a guy named Jim Reuben. I have no idea where he got the name "ShopKo" from, and he's dead now so I can't ask him. There are about 140 stores in 15 states. ShopKo tends to keep away from the big cities. Around here there aren't any stores in the city of Milwaukee, but there are in the smaller to mid-sized communities surrounding the area. They're a little bit more upscale, comparable to Target.
Each store has the basic Hardware/Automotive departments and some Sporting Goods, but more emphasis is placed on Housewares/Domestics and Apparel. There's also a Toy department, Electronics department, School and Office supplies, Seasonal items, Health and Beauty Aids and some Grocery items. (Nothing like Wal-Mart though.) Also a Jewelry Counter. ShopKo has a pretty big RTA furniture department too, with the items all assembled and placed on the salesfloor so you can lay on the futons or sit at the desks, etc. Kind of like a mini-showroom. Up until the mid 90' s they carried fabrics and crafts, mixed gallons of paint and cut keys. But that's all been done away with. Payless Shoes also leases space inside each ShopKo store and sells their shoes. They have their own staff, shipping and receiving, inventory, etc. They just pay ShopKo to use their space.
Just about every store has a Pharmacy (some have drive-thrus) and an Optical Center. The pharmacies do really well and because of that, three of them opened in their own stand alone buildings last year. They're called ShopKo Express. Kind of like a Walgreen's without the appliances or seasonal stuff. (Tons of alcoholic beverages though!):tumble: During the summer months, each ShopKo has an Outside Lawn & Garden Center set up in the parking lot. There's a greenhouse and everything. Even with places like Menards and Home Depot around, Lawn & Garden still does pretty good business.
ShopKo bought the Pamida chain a few years ago. A typical Pamida is just a miniature version of ShopKo. They're confined to the very small communities where there really aren't any other places to shop except for maybe the local supermarket or gas station. There's about 220 Pamida stores. The one pictured above isn't like any of the ones I've ever been in. (The ShopKo pictured looks like one of their mid 1990's designs.) ShopKo has been aggressively remodeling Pamidas since they took over. I know some got closed down too.
ShopKo, I believe, bought out the "Jack's" chain of discount stores around 1999. (I don't know anything about Jack's and never heard of them until ShopKo bought them.) Those stores were remodeled and opened as ShopKo. (Most of them anyways.) But business never really took off at any of the old Jack's locations and they closed in 2001. About that time ShopKo bought a bunch of old Venture Outlet stores and opened in those with the same results. People in those areas had never heard of ShopKo and didn't really take much interest when they moved in.
Right now ShopKo has begun rounds of store remodelings. Up until the mid 90's the older stores were all Orange and Tan with fake wood paneling.:barf: About as 1970's as you could get. The store I'm at was redone in 1994 from those colors to the typical 90's sterile grey and white scheme. They still had the original orange carts with the old logo from 1979 up until just a few years ago. We're supposed to get revamped this summer. The remodeled stores use "earth tones" :rolleyes:like beige and hunter green and have laminate wood flooring put in instead of regular tile. I'll try to take some before and after pictures this summer.
I guess this is the 70's logo?
(http://www.blueribbonphotography.com/commerce/shopko.jpg)
That would be it! There's another one from the 60's that has some wierd guys head with a plaid hat. I've only seen it once or twice before.
We had two Shopko's here in Evansville. As someone noted above, the moved into former Venture stores and re-painted the stores white and gray with red trim. The did have a RTO kinda furniture store as well as a shoe store and pharmacy (also as allready mentioned). The stores were pretty clean and neat but really didnt take off in our area. Evansville is appx 120,000 people. Both opened in or around 1999 and closed in 2001 or 2002.
I had family that lived in Jacksonville Illinois. In the early 1990's when I visited we would often ride our bikes down to the Jack's store. it was your typical K-Mart type format. Everything was bright orange and khaki colored and if I remember correctly had a Jack toy as the logo on the sign. (Jacks like you played with with a ball. Last time I was in Jacksonville the Shopko was still open in the Jack's building.
We have a Pamida that opened in Mt Vernon Indiana in 2004. Mt Vernon is a small "feeder" town to Evansville. I have been in there once. It reminded me a lot like a Family Dollar or Dollar General Store. A little bit of everything but not a lot of choices. They seem to be the kind of store that you visit if you forgot something when you went to the "big city". They have decent prices as well.
Shopko has been sold !
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_20546365.shtml
Who bought ShopKo? Did they buy the Pamida stores too?
Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison, it's a Minneapolis-based private equity investment firm.
Maybe that firm is acquiring Shopko to close the stores and sell the real estate...
As far as any of us know, they aren't planning to immediately close any stores. Something like 16 ShopKo stores and a bunch of Pamidas are still going ahead with total remodels this year, including the one I'm at. Three ShopKo Express stores are still on for being built as well. This company has apparently owned other stores before for as little as two years and as long as ten. None of the employees were told about the buyout until the day it happened.
76fanAmesmanBBTB
I want a Shopko in my town the storefront looks interesting so does the logo!
in this pic at least
THEY CAN TAKE THE FORMER AMES IN TORRINGTON PARKADE!
JUST AS LONG THEY DON'T TEAR THE ENTIRE BUILDING DOWN
SHOPKO's NOT TO BIG IS IT?
QuoteOriginally posted by Anonymous
76fanAmesmanBBTB
I want a Shopko in my town the storefront looks interesting so does the logo!
in this pic at least
THEY CAN TAKE THE FORMER AMES IN TORRINGTON PARKADE!
JUST AS LONG THEY DON'T TEAR THE ENTIRE BUILDING DOWN
SHOPKO's NOT TO BIG IS IT?
76fanAmesmanBBTB
I like their guiding priciples
76fanAmesmanBBTB
BTW I think think the name ShopKo came from the fact that the founder wanted a Shopping Company and the cleverly shortened it to ShopKo instead of ShopCo
like night is spelled nite
and doughnut spelled donut
etc. and so on.
interesting that they say they're "trend correct"
possible effort to not look "outdated" perhaps?
maybe to avoid WalMart's (AKA Wal-Fart aka Mal-Wart aka my favorite Sprawl Mart and AKA Wally Fart lol:insane: ) so called "clean up".
Which by keeping up to date IS a good thing.
:yup:
they dont look like such a great store they seem :boring: to me
ShopKo
Memphis, MO
Savanna, IL
ShopKo welcome area
Dubuque, Iowa (Former Zayre/Venture)
Lincoln, Nebraska
Rochester, MN
Shopko Corporate Offices: Green Bay, WI
East Peoria, IL
La Crosse, WI
Monmouth, IL (Former Ames)
Jacksonville, IL
Springfield, IL
Jacksonville, IL sign
Springfield, IL sign
Former ShopKo
Former ShopKo
Former ShopKo
ShopKo Express
ShopKo Express Pharmacy
ShopKo Express Business Center
Mount-Carmel, IL
Audubon, Iowa
Former ShopKo
what kind of a chain is ShopKO? is it a regional discount store. I know that the era of the regionals are gone because Ames, Bradlees, CAldor, Rich's, Stuart's and Kings are gone and now long gone.
It's a discount chain and it's only in small cities across the west
Meridian, ID
As of 2007 ShopKo no longer runs Pamida but is still part of ShopKo's parent company
http://www.retail-merchandiser.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13711&Itemid=0
Nice looking store.
Aerial view of a newer Shopko
That arial photo is of store 176 in Peoria, IL. It closed earlier this year.
At one time we had two Shopko locations in Evansville Indiana. They were both housed in former Woolco buildings.
They had decent items, but the stores never had a fighting chance with competition from Wal Mart and Target. All four of our K Marts has shut down as well. :no:
They're building a new store in Sumaco, WI and some in the Milwaukee area pretty soon. The stores ShopKo opened in Illinois and Indiana never did too well. No one was familiar with the ShopKo name. 176 in Peoria was a really nice store, built from the ground up. It's a shame it closed.
Shopko has a new logo as of 2007.
Picture below.
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The Shopko prototype store in Suamico, Wisconsin.
Shopko, the Green Bay, Wisconsin-based discounter has been opening new upscale prototype stores recently.
They are located in:
Suamico, Wisconsin
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Sussex, Wisconsin
North Branch, Minnesota
How Shopko Got its Soul Back (http://www.vmsd.com/index.php/channel/7/id/13605)
ShopKo is on opening track again. (http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172904908.html)
Feminine Style: Chute Gerdeman's Shopko design is fashion-forward, female-friendly (http://www.retailfix.com/feat_Chute_Shopk0_0608.cfm)
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A photo of the new look (click here) (http://blogs.jsonline.com/blogs/shoptalk/shopko%20003.jpg)
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VIDEO: Enthusiasm abounds as Shopko opens doors in North Branch (http://ecmpostreview.com/content/view/1611/58/)
I've been to the new ShopKo prototype store in Suamico, Wisconsin, and I was amazed by how upscale it was. It was like a Target crossed with a Kohl's. I especially like the way it was set up.
Chute Gerdeman Retail - the firm responsible for Shopko's new style. (http://www.chutegerdeman.com/)
Don't be afraid to discuss this topic.
that looks very nice but the image is very big.
Never been to a ShopKo but I wouldnt mind visiting one. By the way I joined your Kmart group on Flickr and submitted some photos (i'm Nintendo85) :)
Nice, but please follow board rules:
Quote3. Please, no image attachments over 640x480 res, anything higher downsize, post a link, or send on over to one of the admins.
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Nice, but please follow board rules:
Quote3. Please, no image attachments over 640x480 res, anything higher downsize, post a link, or send on over to one of the admins.
Fixed.
QuoteOriginally posted by CTAmeshopper
that looks very nice but the image is very big.
I fixed the image problem.
QuoteOriginally posted by ameskmart1
East Peoria, IL
That ShopKo store looks like it began its life as a Wal-Mart Discount City in the mid 1980s.
ahhhhhh.. that's better.
:bigsmile:
They were playing a XMAS Song Parody on 102.9 The Big D in Hartford, CT this afternoon called "Rusted Chevrolet" and one of the lyrics in the song goes "I've gotta get to ShopKo to pick up my layaway."
This Pamida is located in Cross County Plaza.
I have group on Flickr for ShopKo Stores (http://www.flickr.com/groups/820865@N25/), if anyone is interested in seeing it. :) If you want to submit some photos or just join my group, I'd be more than welcome to let you.
I would join but they dont have any ShopKos in New Jersey.
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The ShopKo store in Eugene, Oregon
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The ShopKo store in Mankato, Minnesota
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The ShopKo store in Redding, California
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The ShopKo store in Helena, Montana
QuoteOriginally posted by ShopKoFan
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The ShopKo store in Eugene, Oregon
This store closed in 2007
QuoteOriginally posted by ameskmart1
QuoteOriginally posted by ShopKoFan
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The ShopKo store in Eugene, Oregon
This store closed in 2007
That's unfortunate. At least it's been immortalized in a photograph.
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ShopKo Store #1, Green Bay, Wisconsin
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ShopKo Store #15, Northland Mall, Appleton, Wisconsin
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ShopKo Store, Center Road, Lincoln, Nebraska
I started a blog on ShopKo's history at my blog known as "BlogKo (http://shopkofan.blogspot.com/)." Check it out if you want to learn more about ShopKo!
We have had SkopKo in Utah for about 15-20 years(?) They were clean nice stores that had all night shopping for several years during the Christmas Shopping Season. When my kids were young, I would pick up my wife from work at 11 PM stop at ShopKo shop and put our Christmas on layaway and then drive home. We had until the 20th to pick the layaway up! Yipee!
We stopped that practice when a Walmart came to Toolee, some 40 miles west over the mountains from our home because we heard fo the great prices and a layaway plan. We shopped at walmart for 6 years after that because the ShopKo changed their layaway program so that you had to have everything off layaway by the 10th of December - I get paid on the 5th and the 20th. No way I am not paying my house payment to pick the layaway!
Since then, about 9 years ago, Walmart ahs been replaced with Target and Kohls as the Christmas main stays as our children are now grown and layaway is not as vital to Christmas. captjack
Shopko fan do you have alink to your flicker stuff? captjack
QuoteOriginally posted by captjack
Shopko fan do you have alink to your flicker stuff? captjack
My ShopKo pool on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/groups/820865@N25/)
It is nice to see that Shopko is still opening new stores in the continuing struggling economy. Having comepetion in a market is always a good thing.
So is the Rachel Ray line exculsive to Shopko?
QuoteOriginally posted by captjack
So is the Rachel Ray line exculsive to Shopko?
Yes, Rachael Ray's line is exclusive to ShopKo.
ShopKoFan, could you upload a picture of a ShopKo/Payless pylon sign? I saw one on Wikipedia I think, but it got deleted.
QuoteOriginally posted by Mervyns
ShopKoFan, could you upload a picture of a ShopKo/Payless pylon sign? I saw one on Wikipedia I think, but it got deleted.
I could not find what you were looking for.
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Various images of the front of the store
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Back entrance
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Pylon sign
GREEN BAY, Wis. - A new CEO takes the helm at Shopko this week following the resignation last week of Michael MacDonald who moved on to become president and CEO of footwear retailers DSW, Inc. MacDonald joined Shopko in 2006 and will be replaced by Paul Jones, who joined Shopko in November 2007 and previously served as the company's president and chief merchandising officer.
Shopko operates 135 Shopko stores and six Shopko Express pharmacy stores in 13 states.
Jones tasked with finding competitive edge
The outlook for Shopko doesn't change appreciably under the leadership of a new CEO and the continuing ownership of private equity firm Sun Capital. Shopko remains a $2.2 billion regional operator that enjoys some brand equity in the local markets where it operates, but beyond name recognition the company has no meaningful competitive advantages over the likes of Walmart, Target, Walgreens or CVS. Anything Shopko can do, these companies can generally do better, faster and cheaper. That leaves Shopko in a tough spot, which is where it has been for years and is one of the reasons the company was vulnerable to a takeover by Sun Capital in 2005.
Jones has a big job ahead of him with no clear path to achieving profitable growth amid difficult economic conditions where it faces the challenge of competing with larger rivals. To his credit, Jones was responsible for implementing an entirely new merchandising strategy based on differentiated brands and strong promotional values, according to the company.
"We appreciate the foundation Mike MacDonald has laid for Shopko's future growth," said Scott King, senior managing director for Sun Capital. "We are also ecstatic to have a creative merchant and strong leader like Paul Jones to lead Shopko's talented management team in the years to come. Paul's entry into the company has been positively transformational. I have every confidence that the upcoming leadership transition will be seamless."
QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
what kind of a chain is ShopKO? is it a regional discount store. I know that the era of the regionals are gone because Ames, Bradlees, CAldor, Rich's, Stuart's and Kings are gone and now long gone.
Not true, because there are a few regionals out there.
Here a few of the regional discount store chains that are left:
[list=a]
- ShopKo
- Pamida
- Roses
- Fred Meyer
- Biggs
- Meijer
- Duckwall
- ALCO
- Magic Mart
- Bi-Mart
[/list=a]
Now try and tell us the era of regionals is dead...
QuoteOriginally posted by dmx10101
GREEN BAY, Wis. - A new CEO takes the helm at Shopko this week following the resignation last week of Michael MacDonald who moved on to become president and CEO of footwear retailers DSW, Inc. MacDonald joined Shopko in 2006 and will be replaced by Paul Jones, who joined Shopko in November 2007 and previously served as the company's president and chief merchandising officer.
Shopko operates 135 Shopko stores and six Shopko Express pharmacy stores in 13 states.
Jones tasked with finding competitive edge
The outlook for Shopko doesn't change appreciably under the leadership of a new CEO and the continuing ownership of private equity firm Sun Capital. Shopko remains a $2.2 billion regional operator that enjoys some brand equity in the local markets where it operates, but beyond name recognition the company has no meaningful competitive advantages over the likes of Walmart, Target, Walgreens or CVS. Anything Shopko can do, these companies can generally do better, faster and cheaper. That leaves Shopko in a tough spot, which is where it has been for years and is one of the reasons the company was vulnerable to a takeover by Sun Capital in 2005.
Jones has a big job ahead of him with no clear path to achieving profitable growth amid difficult economic conditions where it faces the challenge of competing with larger rivals. To his credit, Jones was responsible for implementing an entirely new merchandising strategy based on differentiated brands and strong promotional values, according to the company.
"We appreciate the foundation Mike MacDonald has laid for Shopko's future growth," said Scott King, senior managing director for Sun Capital. "We are also ecstatic to have a creative merchant and strong leader like Paul Jones to lead Shopko's talented management team in the years to come. Paul's entry into the company has been positively transformational. I have every confidence that the upcoming leadership transition will be seamless."
I hope ShopKo manages their supply chain better. There has been a LEGO shortage in the toy department.
QuoteOriginally posted by ShopKoFan
I hope ShopKo manages their supply chain better. There has been a LEGO shortage in the toy department.
Nevermind that. I went to ShopKo last night, and most of the LEGO sets seemed to be back in stock.
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Images of the ShopKo store on Green Bay's east side (Mason Street).
Comments pertaining to this and previous posts in this thread would be nice. :)
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A ShopKo price tag from the 1960s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XolmHJIgTGE
A tour through ShopKo! See for yourself, even if you haven't seen a ShopKo before.
are there any in new england?
QuoteOriginally posted by jmcnamara96
are there any in new england?
They do not have any in New England...yet. If you visit any of the Midwest, Mountain, and Pacific Northwest states, you can find them.
All the current ShopKo locations
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Source: Mapmuse (http://find.mapmuse.com/brand/shopko)
Locations with more than one store are written in bold text.
California
*Redding
Iowa
*Burlington
*Council Bluffs
*Dubuque
*Fort Madison
*Mason City
*Sioux City
Idaho
*Boise (2)
*Coeur D'Alene
*Idaho Falls
*Lewiston
*Meridian
*Nampa
*Pocatello
*Twin Falls
Illinois
*Belvidere
*Dixon
*East Peoria
*Freeport
*Jacksonville
*Monmouth
*Peoria
*Quincy
*Springfield (2)
Michigan
*Escanaba
*Houghton
*Kingsford
*Marquette
Minnesota
*Albert Lea
*Austin
*Duluth
*Fairmont
*Hutchinson
*Mankato
*Marshall
*North Branch
*Rochester (2)
*St. Cloud (2)
*Winona
*Worthington
Montana
*Billings
*Great Falls
*Helena
*Kalispell
*Missoula
Nebraska
*Bellevue
*Grand Island
*Lincoln (4)
*Norfolk
*North Platte
*Omaha (3)
Oregon
*Bend
*Eugene (2)
*Salem
South Dakota
*Aberdeen
*Mitchell
*Rapid City
*Sioux Falls (2)
*Watertown
Utah
*Bountiful
*Brigham City
*Layton
*Logan
*Murray
*Ogden
*Orem
*Provo
*Riverdale
*Salt Lake City
*Sandy
*Spanish Fork
*Taylorsville
*West Jordan
*West Valley
Washington
*Kennewick
*Lacey
*Pullman
*Spokane (2)
*Spokane Valley
*Union Gap
*Walla Walla
*Wenatchee
*Yakima
Wisconsin
*Appleton
*Beaver Dam
*Beloit
*Chippewa Falls
*De Pere
*Delavan
*Eau Claire
*Fond du Lac
*Fort Atkinson
*Grafton
*Green Bay (3)
*Janesville
*Kenosha
*Kimberly
*La Crosse (2)
*Madison (3)
*Manitowoc
*Marinette
*Marshfield
*Menasha
*Monona
*Monroe
*Neenah
*Onalaska
*Oshkosh
*Plover
*Racine
*Rhinelander
*Rice Lake
*River Falls
*Rothschild
*Sheboygan
*Stevens Point
*Suamico
*Sussex
*Watertown
*Wausau
*West Bend
*Wisconsin Rapids
ShopKo Express Pharmacy (Wisconsin)
*Appleton (2)
*De Pere
*Green Bay (2)
*Port Washington
*Suamico
ShopKo distribution centers
*Boise, Idaho
*De Pere, Wisconsin
*Omaha, Nebraska
ShopKo Corporate HQ
*Green Bay, Wisconsin
My guess is you wont see them expand much east as Meijers is in Indiana Michigan and Ohio Unless the merged someday
Pamidia though does have stores in Indiana but i have never visited any
I went shopping at this ShopKo location last Friday, and I thought I would like to share this store with you guys. It is located on 216 S Military Avenue, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The store is neatly organized, has a pharmacy and optical center, and Payless ShoeSource, as well as additional parking at the back of the building, along with a rear entrance. I know ShopKo has updated their logo, but this one still has the 1991 "Vision 2000" logo, and layout. The store opened in 1962, has an unusual L-shaped floorplan, and also had a Sure Way (later Jubilee Foods) grocery store attached to it (to the right), which closed in 2004 when Jubilee's parent company went bankrupt. I have included some photos I took last January, of the store exterior and sign.
Front:
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Back:
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Sign:
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Former appearance (courtesy of Flickr user Dr. Geektarded):
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BONUS! A receipt from my shopping trip at this exact location last Friday (scanned by me):
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Check out those purchases!
I hope you guys enjoyed this. ;)
Cool. I've never been to any of the Green Bay stores. I checked out Sussex on grand opening day last year. It's a nice store. I currently work at 027.
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ShopKo Store #001 and its historical marker, found on one of the walls in the front entrance.
QuoteOriginally posted by thedisneystore967
Shopko has a new logo as of 2007.
Picture below.
SHOPKO "My Life, My Style, My Store."Now that is a nice slogan for a store and makes me want to stop and check it out.
QuoteOriginally posted by gu4ever
If I was to visit a couple of SHOPKO stores. What would be the 2 locations that hold the most vintage or traditional feel to them in layout, graphics, color scheme and so on?
1. ShopKo store #1 - 216 S. Military Avenue, Green Bay, WI
2. ShopKo store #4 - 2430 E. Mason Street, Green Bay, WI (next to East Town Mall)
If I was to visit a couple of SHOPKO stores. What would be the 3 locations that are the newest, largest, most unique feel to them in layout, graphics, color scheme and so on?
1. Shopko - 2320 Lineville Road, Suamico, WI
2. Shopko store #5 - 301 Bay Park Square, Ashwaubenon, WI (Bay Park Square Mall anchor)
3. Shopko store #15 - 1000 Northland Avenue, Appleton, WI (Northland Mall Anchor)
Thanks for your help!
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looks kinda like a target
Those pictures are great of the Meridian prototype store.
They have a substantial furniture department and some excellent graphics through out.
QuoteOriginally posted by ShopKoFan
QuoteOriginally posted by gu4ever
If I was to visit a couple of SHOPKO stores. What would be the 2 locations that hold the most vintage or traditional feel to them in layout, graphics, color scheme and so on?
1. ShopKo store #1 - 216 S. Military Avenue, Green Bay, WI
2. ShopKo store #4 - 2430 E. Mason Street, Green Bay, WI (next to East Town Mall)
If I was to visit a couple of SHOPKO stores. What would be the 3 locations that are the newest, largest, most unique feel to them in layout, graphics, color scheme and so on?
1. Shopko - 2320 Lineville Road, Suamico, WI
2. Shopko store #5 - 301 Bay Park Square, Ashwaubenon, WI (Bay Park Square Mall anchor)
3. Shopko store #15 - 1000 Northland Avenue, Appleton, WI (Northland Mall Anchor)
Thanks for your help!
Thanks for the input ShopKoFan, I'm excited to make plans to travel out to this area of the country in 2010. It's always great to have places to see while I'm there!
:)
Yakima, WA (Taken 12/2008)
Livingston, MT (Taken 7/2006)
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Shopko store #002 (Holmgren Way entrance) - Bay Park Square Mall anchor, Green Bay, WI
This location is the closest location to Shopko corporate HQ, which happens to be across the street, on the Pilgrim Way side!
Lyrics:
I'm bringing ShopKo back.
Them other stores don't know how to act.
Our specials make up for the sales you lack.
ShopKo's the best, and you know that's a fact.
(Take 'em to the bridge!)
Come and take, you see these specials, baby, aren't they great?
Walk the store, and see what deals await...
It's just so good that you will stay the day!
(Take 'em to the course!)
Come and shop!
(Come in, spend money!)
More in the back!
(Come in, spend money!)
DXG!
(Come in, spend money!)
It's almost free.
(Come in, spend money!)
Let's see what you're paying with.
(Come in, spend money!)
Give me some tips!
(Come in, spend money!)
It's on this aisle.
(Come in, spend money!)
Just got wild!
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
I'm bringing ShopKo back.
Sam Walton doesn't know how to act.
Your ape-lore proroducts are completely whack.
ShopKo's service is first and yours is last.
(Take 'em to the bridge!)
Come and take, you see these specials, baby, aren't they great?
Walk the store, and see what deals await...
It's just so good that you will stay the day!
(Take 'em to the course!)
Come and shop!
(Come in, spend money!)
More in the back!
(Come in, spend money!)
DXG!
(Come in, spend money!)
It's almost free.
(Come in, spend money!)
Let's see what you're paying with.
(Come in, spend money!)
Give me some tips!
(Come in, spend money!)
It's on this aisle.
(Come in, spend money!)
Just got wild!
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
I'm bringing ShopKo back.
(YEAH!)
Those Kmart guys doesn't know how to act.
(YEAH!)
Your "Blue Light Specials" don't mean Jack.
(YEAH!)
Now ShopKo is brought back, and that's a fact.
(YEAH!)
(Take 'em to the course!)
Come and shop!
(Come in, spend money!)
More in the back!
(Come in, spend money!)
DXG!
(Come in, spend money!)
It's almost free.
(Come in, spend money!)
Let's see what you're paying with.
(Come in, spend money!)
Give me some tips!
(Come in, spend money!)
It's on this aisle.
(Come in, spend money!)
Just got wild!
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out.
(Come in, spend money!)
Get your debit out...
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The MP3 is available on DJ Plano's MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/djplanomusic).
I spent some time down in Peoria working at store 178 which was built with that design. It was very nice inside. Too bad they closed it.
More pictures of ShopKo store #001 from the 1970s courtesy of Dr. Geektarded at Flickr.
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More ShopKo pictures courtesy of John Gallo of the Stores Forever blog.
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The former ShopKo location at Westfair Mall in West Bend, Wisconsin. This store has relocated.
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The ShopKo store at the Westgate Mall in Racine, Wisconsin, in the 1980s. This ShopKo was built on the site of a former Turn Style location and movie theater.
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Here's the same exact store, in the 1990s.
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The mall entrance to the same exact store.
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The ShopKo/Westgate Mall sign.
Those vintage photo's are great, what an awesome store!!
I like the slogan on the wall that says, ShopKo... Discount the price..... not the quality.
The Racine store was actually built from the ground up. Turn-Style was located further north, where the parking lot is. ShopKo itself actually sits on the site of an old drive-in theater. We also got the brown scheme paint job and new logo on the exterior this summer, so we're no longer gray.
The mall entrance was sealed up in 2007 and the section of Westgate Mall directly off the store is now closed. Another portion of the mall has been converted to a strip mall format, with store entrances on the outside. The company that owns the place is barely breaking even, so there aren't any major plans for Westgate right now.
We are about to get a new look on our ShopKo store on Green Bay's east side (store #4, built in 1988). I saw the newly painted exterior, and I knew that it would wind up looking like the location in Billings, Montana, tan, with the new logo over the trapezoidal dual entrance vestibule, common on most ShopKo prototype stores built between 1986 and 1990 during the late '80s expansion period, when ShopKo opened new stores with the new look and layout, including the first and only location in California, in the city of Redding. These were ShopKo's larger stores. Here's a rendering of that store design that I made with Microsoft Paint and uploaded to Flickr:
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Here's a single entrance variant of the vestibule in Brigham City, Utah, courtesy of Google street view:
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A closeup of the same store:
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Here's the store that inspired the picture above, this one located on Green Bay's east side, located between East Town Mall and ALDI:
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Here's what the stores used to look like in the 1980s (the Eugene, Oregon store, and this unknown store with orange trim, stands in as examples) when they opened:
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Here's what most of them will look like in the future (this store in Missoula, Montana is an example):
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Grafton still had the old red logo at least until 2000 / 2001.
There were three ShopKo locations in Colorado from 1993 until 2005. They were located in Fort Collins, Longmont, and Loveland. The Longmont and Fort Collins ShopKo locations became JCPenney locations. The Loveland location remains largely vacant, although the building has been divided into smaller storefronts and still retains the much of the "ShopKo" style.
Here's what they all looked like (this River Falls, Wisconsin location stands in as an example) when they were all ShopKo stores:
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The JCPenney in Longmont, Colorado still has much of its ShopKo architecture intact, although it has been painted over with earth tones:
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From what I've heard, the original Neenah, WI location is now a Goodwill Store.
From Photobucket user, StoreWest, the person behind the Meridian, Idaho store photos (http://www.amesfanclub.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2589), are photos for ShopKo's only California store, located in the city of Redding on 55 Lake Boulevard. This store opened in 1990, was remodeled in circa. 1995, 1999, and 2003, and has gotten its third sign to reflect their new logo, which takes emphasis off of "Ko." The building design used here is one of the most common designs, featuring two entrances, used by the chain from 1986 to 1990. Here are the pictures:
Exterior:
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Interior:
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I do see a future for ShopKo, if they become an "upscale niche discounter," rather than the conventional "big box" store like Walmart or Target. I hope for them to expand into new regions in the future and to buy out some ailing regional discounters along the way. It would be even better if they decided to buy out or merge with the Meijer hypermarkets or the Costco membership warehouses, but remain separate divisions of the larger company like Arby's and Wendy's or Kmart and Sears when they joined forces, and share products and ideas.
I think we should split Shopko/Shopko Express Rx and the Pamida Stores into separate topics and close this one, since Shopko and Pamida became separate companies. Who's with me?
Here's a few existing Shopko locations built in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, that have adopted the new SHOPKO logo:
Redding, California:
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Manitowoc, Wisconsin:
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Missoula, Montana:
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Mankato, Minnesota:
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Eugene, Oregon:
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Billings, Montana:
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Escanaba, Michigan - Delta Plaza Mall (mall entrance):
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Ashwaubenon (Green Bay), Wisconsin - Bay Park Square Mall:
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Logan, Utah:
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Why hasn't anyone commented on this yet?! It's a nice store.
It is a VERY nice store. It looks like a SteinMart (if you don't know what that is, think really nice TJ Maxx) combined with a bigg's (very nice grocery store).
I was here six years ago and it sure looks a lot better (last time I was here it still had the old orange pre-1992 logo)
The one big thing that is not available to this location is an optical center, this location is pharmacy only, unlike the rest of the chain. The large Springfield, Illinois location is the exact opposite, having only an optical center.
~#~
I hope ShopKo opens up more stores in California in the future. If you haven't seen them in person, their stores are like the cross between a Target, Sears and a JCPenney, with a hint of golden-age Ames, Zayre, or Bradlees mixed in. Their stores put emphasis on women and families. They have a nice selection of items. I like their toy department, market, and home entertainment departments. A way that ShopKo is not like the old regional discounters, is the fact that they have a larger region to cover. They are more of a "super-regional retailer," since they cover the Upper Midwest, Mountain, Plains, Northern California, and Pacific Northwest states.
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The ShopKo store in Aberdeen, South Dakota. A perfect example of a store built in the late '70s/early '80s, and remodeled in 1991/1992.
001-180: ShopKo Stores
500s: ShopKo Express Rx Pharmacies
997-999: ShopKo Distribution Centers
Optical not available at the Redding, CA store.
Pharmacy not available at the Springfield, IL store on Dirksen Parkway.
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001 - Green Bay, WI - 216 Military Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
002 - Ashwaubenon, WI - 301 Bay Park Square (Bay Park Square Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
003 - Manitowoc, WI - 3415 Calumet Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
004 - Green Bay, WI - 2430 E Mason St. (East Town Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
005 - De Pere, WI - 230 N Wisconsin St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
007 - LaCrosse, WI - 4344 Mormon Coulee Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
008 - Rothschild, WI - 1105 E Grand Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
009 - Marshfield, WI - 1306 N Central Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
010 - Marquette, MI - 1150 W Washington St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
011 - Kingsford, MI - 500 S Carpenter Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
012 - Wisconsin Rapids, WI - 1100 E Riverview Expressway [Pharmacy/Optical]
014 - Beaver Dam, WI - 822 Park Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
015 - Appleton, WI - 1000 Northland Ave. (Northland Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
016 - Escanaba, MI - 2530 First Ave. N (Delta Plaza Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
017 - St. Cloud, MN - 4161 2nd St. S [Pharmacy/Optical]
018 - West Bend, WI - 1710 S Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
019 - Watertown, WI - 701 S Church St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
020 - LaCrosse, WI - 2400 Rose St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
021 - Mankato, MN - 1850 Madison Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
022 - Mitchell, SD - 1900 N Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
023 - Hutchinson, MN - 125 Main St. N [Pharmacy/Optical]
024 - Eau Claire, WI - 955 Clairemont Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
025 - Marshall, MN - 1200 Susan Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
026 - Beloit, WI - 2761 Prairie Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
027 - Racine, WI - 4801 Washington Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
028 - Kimberly, WI - 800 E Maes St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
029 - Madison, WI - 7401 Mineral Point Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
030 - Janesville, WI - 2500 US Highway 14 [Pharmacy/Optical]
031 - Kenosha, WI - 5300 52nd St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
032 - Madison, WI - 2101 W Broadway [Pharmacy/Optical]
033 - Menasha, WI - 1578 Appleton Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
034 - Madison, WI - 2602 Shopko Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
035 - Rochester, MN - 2820 Highway 63 South [Pharmacy/Optical]
036 - Rochester, MN - 3708 Highway 63 North [Pharmacy/Optical]
037 - Chippewa Falls, WI - 2677 State Highway 53 [Pharmacy/Optical]
038 - Grand Island, NE - 2208 N Webb Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
039 - Lincoln, NE - 4200 S 27th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
040 - Sioux City, IA - 3025 Hamilton Blvd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
041 - Austin, MN - 1209 18th Ave. NW [Pharmacy/Optical]
042 - Oshkosh, WI - 1300 Koeller St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
044 - Omaha, NE - 3020 S 84th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
045 - Bellevue, NE - 601 Galvin Rd. South [Pharmacy/Optical]
046 - Omaha, NE - 5646 N 90th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
047 - Lincoln, NE - 100 S 66th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
048 - Norfolk, NE - 2005 Krenzien St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
049 - Aberdeen, SD - 500 N Highway 281 [Pharmacy/Optical]
050 - Fond Du Lac, WI - 616 W Johnson St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
051 - Fort Atkinson, WI - 1425 Janesville Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
052 - Mason City, IA - 615 S Monroe Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
053 - North Platte, NE - 510 E Philip Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
054 - Watertown, SD - 700 9th Ave. SE [Pharmacy/Optical]
055 - Stevens Point, WI - 1200 Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
056 - Omaha West, NE - 14445 W Center Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
057 - Winona, MN - 405 Cottonwood Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
058 - Worthington, MN - 1755 N Humiston Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
059 - Fairmont, MN - 1001 S Highway 15 [Pharmacy/Optical]
060 - Albert Lea, MN - 2610 Northbridge Ave. (Northbridge Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
061 - St. Cloud, MN - 501 Highway 10 SE [Pharmacy/Optical]
062 - Great Falls, MT - 301 Northwest Bypass [Pharmacy/Optical]
063 - Pocatello, ID - 4215 Yellowstone Highway [Pharmacy/Optical]
064 - Nampa, ID - 2100 Caldwell Blvd [Pharmacy/Optical]
065 - Boise, ID - 8105 Fairview Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
066 - Spokane, WA - 9520 Newport Highway [Pharmacy/Optical]
067 - Twin Falls, ID - 1649 Pole Line Rd. East (Magic Valley Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
068 - Idaho Falls, ID - 800 E 17 St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
069 - Coeur D'Alene, ID - 217 W Ironwood Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
070 - Spokane, WA - 13414 Sprague Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
072 - Lewiston, ID - 2120 Thain Grade [Pharmacy/Optical]
073 - Union Gap, WA - 2530 Rudkin Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
075 - Missoula, MT - 2510 S Reserve St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
076 - Sioux Falls, SD - 1601 W 41st St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
078 - Rapid City, SD - 1845 Haines Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
079 - Wausau, WI - 200 South 18th Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
080 - Madison, WI - 2201 Zeier Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
081 - Yakima, WA - 5801 Summit View Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
082 - Murray, UT - 5959 S State St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
083 - Sandy, UT - 2165 E 9400 South [Pharmacy/Optical]
084 - West Jordan, UT - 1553 W 9000 South [Pharmacy/Optical]
085 - Taylorsville, UT - 5800 S Redwood Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
086 - Provo, UT - 2266 N University Parkway [Pharmacy/Optical]
087 - Ogden, UT - 1818 Washington Blvd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
088 - Layton, UT - 1150 N Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
089 - Walla Walla, WA - 1600 W Rose St. (Blue Mountain Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
090 - Grafton, WI - 1771 Wisconsin Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
091 - Logan, UT - 1341 N Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
092 - Kennewick, WA - 867 N Columbia Center Blvd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
093 - Bend, OR - 60 NE Bend River Mall Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
095 - Boise, ID - 2655 S Broadway Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
096 - Redding, CA - 55 Lake Blvd. [Pharmacy only]
097 - West Valley, UT - 4850 W 3500 South [Pharmacy/Optical]
098 - Eugene, OR - 2815 Chad Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
099 - Onalaska, WI - 9366 State Highway 16 [Pharmacy/Optical]
100 - Neenah, WI - 699 Green Bay Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
101 - Sioux Falls, SD - 4501 E Arrowhead Parkway [Pharmacy/Optical]
102 - Marinette, WI - 2741 Roosevelt Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
104 - Brigham City, UT - 747 S Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
105 - Orem, UT - 125 S State St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
106 - Billings, MT - 905 S 24 West [Pharmacy/Optical]
107 - Bountiful, UT - 190 S 500 West [Pharmacy/Optical]
108 - Spanish Fork, UT - 955 N Main Street [Pharmacy/Optical]
109 - Riverdale, UT - 4060 Riverdale Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
110 - Sugarhouse, UT - 2290 S 1300 East [Pharmacy/Optical]
111 - Salem, OR - 1230 Lancaster Dr. SE [Pharmacy/Optical]
112 - Helena, MT - 3101 Montana Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
113 - Lacey, WA - 5500 Martin Way [Pharmacy/Optical]
114 - Duluth, MN - 801 W Central Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
116 - Sheboygan, WI - 518 S Taylor Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
119 - Dixon, IL - 1350 N Galena Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
120 - Monroe, WI - 405 W 8th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
122 - Wenatchee, WA - 1340 N Wenatchee Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
123 - Houghton, MI - 900 W Memorial Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
125 - Freeport, IL - 555 W South St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
127 - Delavan, WI - 1450 E Geneva St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
128 - Kalispell, MT - 1370 Highway 2 East [Pharmacy/Optical]
129 - Spokane, WA - 4515 S Regal St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
130 - River Falls, WI - 1777 Paulson Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
132 - Rice Lake, WI - 320 Highway O [Pharmacy/Optical]
133 - Belvidere, IL - 1400 Big Thunder Blvd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
134 - Pullman, WA - 1450 Grand Ave [Pharmacy/Optical]
139 - Quincy, IL - 3200 Broadway [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
140 - Jacksonville, IL - 1964 W Morton Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
141 - Burlington, IA - 313 N Roosevelt Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
142 - Fort Madison, IA - 4810 Avenue O [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
145 - Monmouth, IL - 1190 N 6th St. Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
150 - Springfield, IL - 3030 Wabash Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
153 - Springfield, IL - 3001 S Dirksen Parkway [Optical only] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
164 - Dubuque, IA - 255 John F. Kennedy Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Venture store #27>
169 - Meridian, ID - 3499 E Fairview Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
170 - Rhinelander, WI - 2200 Lincoln St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
171 - Plover, WI - 1800 Plover Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
172 - Lincoln, NE - 3400 N 27th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
175 - Lincoln, NE - 6845 S 27th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
177 - Suamico, WI - 2320 Lineville Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
178 - Sussex, WI - N66W25201 County Highway VV [Pharmacy/Optical]
179 - North Branch, MN - 5630 St. Croix Trail [Pharmacy/Optical]
180 - Council Bluffs, IA - 3271 Marketplace Dr. [Pharmcy/Optical]
ShopKo Express Rx
501 - DePere, WI - 3705 Monroe Rd.
502 - Howard, WI - 2585 Lineville Rd.
503 - Port Washington, WI - 1011 N Wisconsin St.
504 - Appleton, WI - W3208 Van Roy Rd.
505 - Appleton, WI - 2101 E Evergreen Dr.
506 - Green Bay, WI - 300 N Broadway {place closed after one short year of operation}
Distribution Centers
997 - Boise, ID - 1001 E Gowen Rd.
998 - Omaha, NE - 10808 S 132nd St.
999 - DePere, WI - 1717 Lawrence Dr.
QuoteOriginally posted by ameskmart1
ShopKo welcome area
Wow! I haven't seen one of those in person before. The map on that would be very useful.
They look like a nice store. They should expand into Connecticut. If they're adaptable in the sizes of their stores they can go into the vacant Shaw's in Bristol, New Britain, Waterbury, and Southington. Otherwise if they're not adaptable in the sizes of their stores there is a vacant Walmart in New Britain and they could also build from the ground up in Southington on Route 229 near the new Target (lots of vacant commercial land available there) or on Route 322 near the 3 year old Home Depot in the Southend of town. They could also build from the Ground Up on vacant land in Plainville across the street from The Plainville Commons. All the businesses moved out years ago. The buildings are in poor shape and the site has been for sale for years.
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ShopKo store #5 - Wisconsin Street, downtown DePere, Wisconsin.
ShopKo's former connection to SuperValu Foods in the 1970s is similar to Bradlees' former connection to Stop & Shop Supermarket at around the same time. Both stores were spun off of their respective supermarket partners to become separate entities later on in the next couple of decades.
QuoteOriginally posted by Marc82
They look like a nice store. They should expand into Connecticut. If they're adaptable in the sizes of their stores they can go into the vacant Shaw's in Bristol, New Britain, Waterbury, and Southington. Otherwise if they're not adaptable in the sizes of their stores there is a vacant Walmart in New Britain and they could also build from the ground up in Southington on Route 229 near the new Target (lots of vacant commercial land available there) or on Route 322 near the 3 year old Home Depot in the Southend of town. They could also build from the Ground Up on vacant land in Plainville across the street from The Plainville Commons. All the businesses moved out years ago. The buildings are in poor shape and the site has been for sale for years.
The stores in my area vary in size from 70,000+ sq. ft. to 123,000+ sq. ft., so yes, ShopKo can be flexible.
These are some trucks I've had saved for probably 7 or 8 years now
QuoteOriginally posted by ameskmart1
These are some trucks I've had saved for probably 7 or 8 years now
I saw some toy semi trucks like that on eBay.
Here's one with the '80s logo:
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Now, here's the real deal:
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QuoteOriginally posted by ShopKoFan
The stores in my area vary in size from 70,000+ sq. ft. to 123,000+ sq. ft., so yes, ShopKo can be flexible.
Cool. Now if only there was a way to convince them to come to Connecticut. Although 70,000 is still to big for any of the former Shaw's Supermarkets (along with the unmentioned former Steve & Barry's at the Brass Mill Mall), it can fit in the old Walmart in New Britain and of course free standing locations can be built any size they want. Some day if I ever get a job and save my money I'm gonna have to take a trip to where they have one and see one in person.
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The sign for ShopKo store #123, Houghton, Michigan. Notice how this location shares land with an EconoFoods supermarket, a bank, and a Shell gas station. All the businesses on the sign are freestanding locations.
How is this store doing in terms of expansion? How many new stores do they open per year?
QuoteOriginally posted by ShopKoFan
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The sign for ShopKo store #123, Houghton, Michigan. Notice how this location shares land with an EconoFoods supermarket, a bank, and a Shell gas station. All the businesses on the sign are freestanding locations.
Speaking of Shell, check this out: www.royaldutchshellplc.com
QuoteOriginally posted by XDeSuEhTX
How is this store doing in terms of expansion? How many new stores do they open per year?
They opened four new ShopKo stores in the Midwest last year as well as three ShopKo Express drug stores. One of the ShopKo Express stores did not do well, and shut down a year later.
With the economy the way it is right now, they only opened a handful of stores. There are plans to open more stores next year.
Stores they opened so far:
Suamico, Wisconsin - ShopKo
Sussex, Wisconsin - ShopKo
North Branch, Minnesota - ShopKo
Council Bluff, Iowa - ShopKo
Appleton, Wisconsin - 2 ShopKo Express Rx locations
Green Bay, Wisconsin - ShopKo Express Rx - opened in November 2008, closed November 2009 due to poor location.
Stores planned for 2010:
Oshkosh, Wisconsin - relocation of existing ShopKo location to a new 50,000 sq. ft. building
The layout of this store is similar to the other locations in Suamico, Wisconsin (store #177), Sussex, Wisconsin (store #178), and North Branch, Minnesota (store #179). This is the upscale Shopko prototype that was designed by Chute Gerdeman Retail in 2007.
Photos courtesy of fourstarcashiernathan.
Store entrance:
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When you enter the store, this is the picture that you see on the wall to the right, showing some historical Shopko photos:
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The Family Entertainment department:
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Cosmetics and Payless ShoeSource:
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Cell phone selection in the Family Entertainment department:
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Looking towards the Housewares department from the Family Entertainment department:
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I hope you enjoyed these photos.
QuoteOriginally posted by ShopKoFan
The layout of this store is similar to the other locations in Suamico, Wisconsin (store #177), Sussex, Wisconsin (store #178), and North Branch, Minnesota (store #179). This is the upscale Shopko prototype that was designed by Chute Gerdeman Retail in 2007.
Photos courtesy of fourstarcashiernathan.
Store entrance:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2730/4163409691_46b9511a89.jpg)
When you enter the store, this is the picture that you see on the wall to the right, showing some historical Shopko photos:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2745/4164172324_3672caa85f.jpg)
The Family Entertainment department:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2788/4163410821_b90c2faeb7.jpg)
Cosmetics and Payless ShoeSource:
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Cell phone selection in the Family Entertainment department:
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Looking towards the Housewares department from the Family Entertainment department:
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I hope you enjoyed these photos.
The photos are awesome!! I can't wait to see the new 2007 store prototype in person.
Do they have the same lighting as Target?
QuoteOriginally posted by nims57
Do they have the same lighting as Target?
This type of lighting is common in most modern retailers that have acoustic ceilings. It is similar to the lights used at Target.
QuoteOriginally posted by ShopKoFan
QuoteOriginally posted by nims57
Do they have the same lighting as Target?
This type of lighting is common in most modern retailers that have acoustic ceilings. It is similar to the lights used at Target.
Excuse me, but what is an acoustic ceiling?
QuoteOriginally posted by nims57
QuoteOriginally posted by ShopKoFan
QuoteOriginally posted by nims57
Do they have the same lighting as Target?
This type of lighting is common in most modern retailers that have acoustic ceilings. It is similar to the lights used at Target.
Excuse me, but what is an acoustic ceiling?
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They look like this and have removable ceiling tiles. Some contain rectangular ceiling tiles, and some contain square ceiling tiles. The ones at Shopko and Target are rectangular and have recessed light fixtures.
Built in 1987, this particular store design is caught between the 1995 "Vision 2000" prototype remodel and the 1999 prototype remodel. They haven't updated the checkouts, and the walls still have the gray/blue/red "checkered design" with battleship gray background on them. The mixed gray/white floor tiles have since been replaced with just white tiles outlined with blue tiles.
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ShopKoFan, your avatar store looks kind of like a former SAFEWAY!
Those pics above remind me a little bit of Target.
QuoteOriginally posted by nims57
ShopKoFan, your avatar store looks kind of like a former SAFEWAY!
That ShopKo store never was a Safeway, since Safeway never had stores in Green Bay. The ShopKo was always a ShopKo since it opened in 1988. It was remodeled twice since its opening. This store is late '80s/early '90s prototype with a large layout and two entrances.
Here's a similar store with the old 1975-1991 logo:
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Here's a similar store with the 1991-2007 "Crillee" logo and 1999 update:
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Here's a similar store with the new logo (the store in my signature looks like this on the outside now):
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Shopko grand opening, April 11, 1962, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
*Some of these pictures have duplicates, due to the fact that some parts of the microfilm had dark, illegible portions of text.
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The SHOPKO shopping spree in Suamico, Wisconsin 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSqHJ4v316A
Source: WLUK-TV "Fox 11" Green Bay, WI
North Spokane, Washington store found with Google 3-D
Take a look at this:
*Shopko store #5, De Pere, Wisconsin*
Entrance:
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Interior:
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Hey ShopKoFan do you have any pictures of the zayre venture shopko
Quote from: jmcnamara96 on February 23, 2010, 11:43:49 PM
Hey ShopKoFan do you have any pictures of the zayre venture shopko
Unfortunately not. I live in the Green Bay area. Maybe I could ask Flickr user "fourstarcashiernathan" if he can get some snapshots of that store.
Music I usually hear at Shopko:
"Kiss 'n Tell" by Bryan Ferry - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3kChhbRqjQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3kChhbRqjQ) - one of my favorites!
"I Call it Love" by Lionel Richie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdHnuidUD0k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdHnuidUD0k)
"These Dreams" by Heart - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CcLml7ikn8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CcLml7ikn8)
"The Reason" by Hoobastank - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGs8vtjDxxY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGs8vtjDxxY)
"Alone" by The Bee Gees - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FuKWoczxyA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FuKWoczxyA)
"Stars" by Simply Red - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0nbJsJyh9k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0nbJsJyh9k)
"What's Love Got to do With it?" by Tina Turner - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCBttS_y7lE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCBttS_y7lE)
"That's All" by Genesis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR-ixnPtxU8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR-ixnPtxU8)
"Just the Two of Us" by Grover Washington, Jr./Bill Withers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwgacFujrRI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwgacFujrRI)
"Your Wildest Dreams" by The Moody Blues - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddmJzwm6NYI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddmJzwm6NYI)
"If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" by Sting - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcY12CkEz70 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcY12CkEz70)
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNy29Tp2X3A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNy29Tp2X3A)
i predict that when Kmart and Sears pull out of more small towns in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Upper Michigan, that ShopKo will open locations in those small towns, quite possibly converting some Kmart and Sears locations. Wisconsin will still continue to have more ShopKo stores per capita in the not-too-distant future. Wisconsin has approximately 60 ShopKo stores and counting.
ShopKo ads from November 1991. The first time we see this logo which was discontinued in 2007:
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A ShopKo ad featuring Nintendo Entertainment System games.
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ShopKo Music & Movies ad featuring audiotapes and videocassettes:
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ShopKo advertisement for the grand opening of the Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin store at Bay Park Square Mall. This store has been remodeled and re-merchandised according to ShopKo's Vision 2000 strategy:
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Look for more pictures at my ShopKo Pool.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/820865@N25/pool/ (http://www.flickr.com/groups/820865@N25/pool/)
It looks like they stole the shopping carts from Linens & Things. I remember they had tan colored carts like that.
Quote from: Marc B on March 24, 2010, 08:32:26 PM
It looks like they stole the shopping carts from Linens & Things. I remember they had tan colored carts like that.
These carts my be similar to the old Linens & Things or Kmart carts, but these carts are different in the fact that they have black metal frames, and are designed in a similar fashion to the old blue carts found at their older stores. The logo is painted on.
ShopKo is testing a new store prototype for smaller communities in Wisconsin, called Shopko Hometown. The first two locations will open in Oconto and Kewaunee, inside converted Pamida locations.
I don't know Shopko, but I like these pictures!
What is their secret to survive with Walmart, Target and Kohl's?
So many smaller discount store cghain failed, but not Shopko
Quote from: Zayre88 on June 27, 2010, 07:45:56 PM
I don't know Shopko, but I like these pictures!
What is their secret to survive with Walmart, Target and Kohl's?
So many smaller discount store cghain failed, but not Shopko
Shopko is real well known here in Wisconsin, where theres over 50 Shopko stores, 6 Shopko Express Rx drug stores, and the two upcoming Shopko Hometown stores.
I'm guessing their secret to survival is in providing their customer base (women and families) with deals not fond anywhere else, keeping their store appearance neat and tidy, filling a niche in communities that have a competing Walmart, Kmart or Target. Shopko also has locations that anchor shopping malls. Another secret to their success: closing store in bad locations, and instead focusing on the stores in good locations.
The Shopko website:
http://www.shopko.com/
The Shopko Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/shopko
You guys got to see these hilarious ShopKo commercials.
Two ShopKo commercials from the '00s "Neat Stuff. Neat Store." ad campaign:
"Shameless People":
http://stephanpytel.com/reel/shopko/shopko_shameless_pytel.html (http://stephanpytel.com/reel/shopko/shopko_shameless_pytel.html)
"Everything's gone right through me!"
"Gown":
http://stephanpytel.com/reel/shopko/shopko_gown_pytel.html (http://stephanpytel.com/reel/shopko/shopko_gown_pytel.html)
"ShopKo's pharmacy has a helpful, caring attitude that makes you feel less like a customer, and more like a patient."
*You must have Quicktime enabled to view the these videos.
Looks like a nice store wouldn't mind them expanding over here. It could be the replacement for the hole Caldor,Stars,Ames Bradlee's,Jamesway used to fill.
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Store #116 - Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Twin Valu
Twin Valu was the hypermarket division of ShopKo, in which ShopKo itself was the discount store division of SuperValu Foods of Eden Prairie, Minnesota from 1971 to 1997. Twin Valu only had two locations in Ohio, one being located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, the other being in Euclid, Ohio. Their stores were were open 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The stores were 180,000 square feet and boasted 52 checkout lanes, a full bakery, deli, meat department, smoke house, food court, floral department, jewelry department, electronics department, photo department, vision center, and pharmacy, in addition to groceries, clothing, housewares, and general merchandise. Twin Valu also had branch of Star Bank.
Two smaller grocery-only operations with no clothing or general merchandise were found in Maple Heights, Ohio and Belden Village, Ohio.
The chain lasted from 1989 to 1995.
The original location on Howe Avenue in Cuyahoga Falls has been converted to a Target store and Best Buy.
Pictures:
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Twin Valu holiday commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oULOUWVhdiM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oULOUWVhdiM)
ShopKo grand opening sale, Spokane, Washington, 1987:
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The Store Locator at Shopko.com:
http://www.shopko.com/locator
Shopko Store #40, Sioux City, Iowa
Photos by Nathan Bush
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Shopko Store #40, Sioux City, Iowa
Photos by Nathan Bush
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Shopko Store #40, Sioux City, Iowa
Photos by Nathan Bush
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I really hope you enjoyed these photos, even if they belonged to someone else.
Very good photos. Shopko looks like a cross between Walmart and Kohl's.
Shopko Hometown - Oconto, Wisconsin
(formerly Pamida)
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Quote from: ShopKoFan on March 06, 2010, 02:55:16 PM
A ShopKo ad featuring Nintendo Entertainment System games.
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That's a pretty good deal!
Shopko was mentioned in the book "Dewey The Library Cat". The Spencer, Iowa Shopko had a pet photo contest and Dewey beat out the competition big time. The Spencer, Iowa Shopko closed it's doors after Walmart Supercenter opened in town.
Shopko woos smaller markets
New Hometown stores are scaled-down versions of big-box venues (part 1)
By Doris Hajewski of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Kewaunee â€" A scaled-down Shopko store here represents the newest look for the discount chain, as the Green Bay-based company makes plans to grow in small communities.
Shopko's expansion plan is based on the premise that smaller can be better when you're looking for a competitive niche. They call the stores Shopko Hometown, and the retail chain hopes to be in as many as a dozen Wisconsin towns with this downsized version in the near future.
"In these small communities, people are influenced by the same things as people in Chicago and New York. They see the same movies, use the Internet and see the same fashions, but it's just not available in small communities," said Shopko chief executive Paul Jones.
He's not saying that the first two Shopko Hometowns - in Oconto and Kewaunee - are the rural equivalent of Saks Fifth Avenue. But the stores offer national brands not previously sold in tiny towns, and Shopko is betting it can take some market share from Walmart and Target by allowing small-town residents the chance to buy that merchandise without driving 30 miles to the larger stores.
The Shopko Hometowns opened this summer in 35,000-square-foot buildings that formerly housed Pamida general merchandise stores.
For about six years prior to 2005, Pamida was a division of Shopko. The chains were split up when Shopko, then a publicly traded company, was sold to Sun Capital Partners of Boca Raton, Fla. Sun Capital continues to own both chains, operating them separately.
"Our strategy isn't to take over Pamida," Jones said in an interview in the Kewaunee Shopko Hometown store.
Shopko woos smaller markets
New Hometown stores are scaled-down versions of big-box venues (part 2)
Profitability criteria
The next Hometown store will be built this year from the ground up in Seymour, a town west of Green Bay. Beyond that, Shopko's real estate staff is finding many opportunities for new stores in rural Wisconsin, Jones said.
Locations must fit Shopko's criteria for profitability for the smaller Hometown concept: a market area of 5,000 to 20,000 households within a 13-minute drive from the store; no Walmart or Target store in the market area; and "retail leakage," meaning that money is being spent outside the community for items that Shopko offers. There also must be an existing pharmacy prescription file that Shopko can buy and transfer to the new Hometown store.
Shopko's strategy with the Hometown concept is to meet those needs, so that residents make fewer trips out of town to shop and spend more of their budgets with Shopko instead of at the Walmart or Target a half-hour away.
Some local residents like that idea.
"With gas at $3 a gallon, it's nice to have a store like this nearby," said Joan Mitchell of Algoma, who was making her first visit to the Shopko Hometown in Kewaunee a few days before Christmas. Mitchell had shopped in the Pamida store before it closed, but also drives to Sturgeon Bay and Green Bay to shop.
"It's much nicer" than the Pamida, Mitchell said. "It's cleaner."
Pamida operates 15 stores in Wisconsin after closing locations last year in Hayward, Oconto and Kewaunee. The stores offer basics: nonperishable foods, clothing, toys, candy, small appliances, hardware, housewares and other items.
Shopko has all of that, but with a better selection of national brands as well as Shopko's private labels.
The Shopko Hometown stores offer about 70% of what is available in a full-size Shopko store, including brands such as Wall Flower Jeans; Keurig, Paula Deen and George Foreman in housewares; and Paper Jamz, Nerf and Lego in toys.
The Hometown stores have a selection of the furniture, window treatments and bed-and-bath collections that are sold at larger Shopko stores, and they include Payless shoe departments with brands such as Nike and Reebok.
Shopko woos smaller markets
New Hometown stores are scaled-down versions of big-box venues (part 3)
Retailers think small
The Hometowns also market specifically to local needs - offering, for example, fishing and hunting licenses and more outdoor gear than large Shopkos in more urban locations.
Paul Berkowitz of Kewaunee was at the new Hometown store buying office supplies that he uses to keep track of his finances.
"I haven't been here a lot," Berkowitz said. "But it's a lot handier and more convenient. I'd be in Green Bay otherwise. That takes a half-hour each way, and the roads aren't so good in the winter."
Shoppers in Green Bay have many choices, including more than one Shopko store. Jones acknowledges that there has been some cannibalization in Kewaunee from those large stores, but not a lot.
"The trend in retailing in general is small," said Neil Stern, a senior partner at McMillan/Doolittle, a Chicago retail consulting firm. Target and Walmart have rolled out smaller formats recently, mostly aimed at fitting into less-spacious urban sites, Stern noted.
But the other piece of the quest for untapped markets is what Shopko is doing, looking at small communities, Stern said.
Dollar General and Family Dollar have gone after those towns in a big way and have realized strong profit margins in the 30% range as a result, Stern said.
Neither Dollar General nor Family Dollar is focused on selling things for a dollar. Instead, they have turned to a general-merchandise convenience store format, offering cleaning products, health-and-beauty items, nonperishable foods and other items at a variety of prices.
For now, Jones considers those chains to be his biggest competition in the small communities. But he's confident that he can win by selling not only those basics but a lot more that can't be had anywhere else in town.
ABOUT SHOPKO
Annual sales: $2 billion, about even in 2010 with the previous year
Stores: 143 Shopko stores, five Shopko Express Rx and two Shopko Hometowns in 13 states, from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest
Owner: Shopko Stores Operating Co. is owned by Sun Capital Partners Inc., a private-equity firm in Boca Raton, Fla.
History: First Shopko store was opened in Green Bay in 1962 by founder James Ruben
Pictures of Shopko Hometown in Kewaunee, WI:
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(BTW, Kewaunee is pronounced "key-WAH-nee")
Shopko's official Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/shopko (http://www.youtube.com/user/shopko)
Shopko opened up its Bay Park Square Mall store in Ashwaubenon following the Packers' Super Bowl XLV victory against the Steelers tonight. Packers memorabilia, such as jerseys, hats, and t-shirts had been selling left and right.
Shopko has been a sponsor of the Green Bay Packers since day one.
A Tour of Shopko store #001 (Green Bay, Wisconsin) in Photographs:
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I really like the new modern Shopko sign and the stores interior design package.
The store looks neat and well layed out with impressive signage thru-out it's store.
Shopko store #001 still has some work to do when it comes to interior renovations. Right now, the interior is a mixed bag of styles from 1991 and 1999 to the present. The Payless ShoeSource sign also need to be updated, even if the logo looks ugly to some people.
A ShopKo commercial from the 1990s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wob3x-up5nE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wob3x-up5nE)
Shopko focuses on rural consumers with new merger
January 4, 2012 | By Marianne Wilson
GREEN BAY, Wis. â€" Shopko Stores Operating Co. said Wednesday that Shopko and Pamida will merge to create one of the largest U.S. retailers focused on serving smaller and rural communities. The combined entity will have nearly 350 locations in 22 states and plans to accelerate new store growth in the second half of 2012 and beyond.
Financial details of the merger, expected to close in mid-February, were not disclosed. Both companies are owned by affilates of the private equity firm Sun Capital Partners.
The combined company will be based in Shopko’s home base of Green Bay, Wis., and will use the Shopko name. It will be led by Shopko president, chairman and CEO W. Paul Jones. Pamida president and CEO John Harlow will serve on the leadership team and help direct the integration process.
There will be no change to Shopko's stores, and approximately $80 million will be invested over the next 12 months in the conversion of most of Pamida's locations to the Shopko Hometown store concept and brand. Developed over the past three years, the Hometown format combines pharmacy services with general merchandise categories ranging from apparel to toys to electronics in s smaller-sized footprint that ranges from 15,000 to 35,000 sq. ft.
"Merging Pamida and Shopko is a great move for our businesses and our customers given our complementary strengths, store networks and consumer-centric retail models," said Jones. "The Shopko Hometown store format, featuring our unique merchandising strategy and improved store design, is an ideal fit for the smaller communities that Pamida serves with its exceptional service and community-minded approach. We intend to be the leader in this category by combining the best of Shopko and Pamida in our aggressive new store growth plans."
With annual revenues of $2 billion, Shopko operates 149 stores in 13 states located throughout the Midwest, Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions. Omaha, Neb.-based Pamida operates 193 stores in 17 states, primarily in the Mountain, North Central and Midwest regions, and has revenues of approximately $1 billion.
Deja vu: Pamida was part of ShopKo for several years and now will be again, although this time the Pamida banner will disappear. Pamida will shutter its Omaha HQ as part of the (re)merger, and an undetermined number of Pamida stores will close:
http://www.omaha.com/article/20120105/MONEY/701059943#omaha-loses-pamida-hq-in-shopko-merger
Monmouth, Illinois before remodel:
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Monmouth, Illinois after remodel:
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Burlington, Iowa:
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Fort Madison, Iowa:
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These locations were originally home to Jack's Discount Stores until Shopko bought them out in 1997.
I still wish they would come to Connecticut. There are still some good places they can go:
1. 655 Farmington Avenue New Britain, CT a former Walmart store around 80,000 Square Feet
2. 566 West Main Street Meriden, CT a former Railroad Salvage Store around 70,000 Square Feet in Centennial Plaza with a small 46,500 Square Foot Stop & Shop Supermarket
3. 1201 East Main Street Meriden, CT a former Lowe's Store with around 125,000 Square Feet in the Meriden Parkade.
4. New Britain Avenue Plainville, CT across from Lowe's Plaza (Plainville Commons) next to Big Y Plaza. (9 Acre Vacant Parcel of Land).
5. Webster Square Plaza Berlin/Kensington, CT. There is an vacant A&P Foodmart (that's being squated on by Stop & Shop) plus a Harbor Freight Tools location along with a big hole where they never rebuilt the plaza after a massive fire in 1996. They can knock all that down and build there. Pretty much any size they want.
*Fantasy Location* 1235 Farmington Ave Bristol, CT. If there was a way to convince Sears Hardware & Appliance Store along with The Salvation Army Thrift Store and Aaron's Furniture & Rental to move across town to the former 54,000 Square Foot Shaw's Supermarkt they could combine those 3 spaces plus the vacant Marshall's and get around 82,000 Square Feet for a store.
I just discovered a YouTube channel, known as "Shopkoislife" (a.k.a. "The Shopko Parody Connection"), devoted to Shopko-themed hip-hop songs by DJ Plano. Here's a link to the channel, if you want to check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Shopkoislife/videos
That old ShopKo street sign reminds me of how common it was back then for retailers to resort to Scottish stereotyping to adobt a frugal brand image. Safeway had a discount line of products called "Scotch Buy" that even extended to beer and cigarettes!
It's also interesting how many chains got their start in 1962. In addition to ShopKo, there was Crate & Barrel, Kmart, Kohl's, Michaels, Motel 6, Rich's Department Stores, Rite Aid, Taco Bell, Target, Walmart, Woolco, and undoubtedly others that skipped my mind.
Shopko Celebrates 50 Years of Service;
Retailer Continues to Evolve with Expansions, Acquisitions
by Nathan Phelps
Green Bay Press-Gazette
When Dale Kramer joined Shopko to launch its in-store pharmacy program in 1971, the retailer was battling with other larger stores for market share.
Ultimately it prevailed and Shopko is now celebrating 50 years in business as current leadership expands retail operations further into its core market of decades past â€" small communities.
"We were a small regional (retailer) fighting big regional (retailers) and chains," Kramer said about joining the company in the early 1970s. "(Founder) Jim Rueben's strategy was to enter small and mid-sized markets, recognizing the big chains would not get there."
Kramer, who is retired and living in Florida, spent more than three decades with the company, including serving as Shopko's president from 1991 to 1999.
Shopko turns 50 as it continues to evolve, including the acquisition of Pamida stores, a deal that closed March 1. That move adds more than 185 stores to Shopko's portfolio and is expected to add 130 jobs to the Ashwaubenon headquarters.
Plans call for Shopko to convert Pamida locations to the Shopko Hometown store format at a cost of about $80 million.
Once the Pamida conversions are complete, the company said it will also look to add new Shopko Hometown stores later this year and into 2013.
Shopko is owned by Sun Capital Partners Inc.
Hometown
Mike Bettiga, a 35-year veteran of Shopko who started as staff pharmacist and is now its chief operating officer, said the market has changed quite a bit in the last three decades.
"There was us and a Kmart and a lot of independent retailers," he said. "That's been the most dramatic change over this time frame, the rise of the big-box retailers into all these markets … and the proliferation of chain drugstores. Just all the competition that has come in over all these years."
The merger with Pamida and expansion of the Hometown stores are aimed at growing the company into smaller communities and areas where Shopko doesn't have a presence.
"The types of markets we've been in historically, the opportunities for retail growth are limited as we go forward. There are Kmarts, Targets, Walmarts, Penneys and Sears. Throw in some chain drugstores and those markets are pretty saturated," Bettiga said. "In Hometown-type markets there is an opportunity to create a destination store within that market and give those customers a reason to stay right there and shop."
Hometown stores, which are smaller than main stores, carry a mix of consumer goods and electronics, convenience items, foods and pharmacy services.
In essence, Shopko created a smaller version of its stores and took it to smaller communities not served by competitors.
The first stores â€" converted Pamida locations â€" opened in the summer of 2010 and were followed by more that fared well. That led to the idea of merging with Pamida.
"Our whole future growth strategy is going to be around finding the hundreds and hundreds of communities across the states we compete in to find a financially viable way to add one of these small stores," said W. Paul Jones, Shopko chairman, president and CEO. "This is a business model that really doesn't exist out there. … This is the future."
He said the merger and expansion of Hometown stores doesn't change the company or brand.
"We're simply taking it to markets where they don't have access to our brand," he said. "I would describe it as an evolution. We continue to adapt to the market conditions and to the needs and voids in the marketplace."
Through the Years
Shopko â€" named Shopco in initial discussions â€" hit headlines in March 1961 when founder James Ruben and a group of investors announced plans to open a $1 million department store at 216 S. Military Ave., Green Bay.
That idea became a reality in April 1962 when the store opened. By the early 1970s, Shopko built its headquarters building in Ashwaubenon and announced plans to put pharmacies in its stores. It added optical in 1978.
By 1977, Shopko had 21 stores and in 1981 it opened its 30th store. It had expanded to 87 stores in 1988 and the company's sales were in excess of $1 billion.
Among the changes the store has undergone was the 1991 decision to change up its product mix to appeal to a female customer base. The stores dropped some items, like bulk paint and large automotive and hardware offerings, for things like fashion, home, health and everyday basics and seasonal products.
Kramer said the company took some knocks over those changes, but it's a move that paid off.
"We found a way to differentiate ourselves from the bigger chains, and that was a major move for us," he said. "By giving up some of those male-orientated categories, it hurt us and we took a pretty good beating for a couple of years … but it was the right decision because ultimately we focused on the woman and it worked."
Long Odds
In the last four years Shopko has opened four new locations â€" including one in Suamico â€" and established its smaller Hometown concept stores in communities like Oconto, Seymour and Kewaunee.
With finalization of the Pamida merger, Shopko has about 350 locations in 22 states, and more than 20,000 employees, the company said earlier this month. It has anuual revenues of about $3 billion.
Kramer said he's not surprised by the growth of Shopko over the decades â€" due in large part to the vision of Rueben, the strategy of management and the dedication of the company's employees.
"Back in the '70s, all the magazines that covered the discounters had given regional discounters very little chance of survival," he said. "I think we were given like 6-to-1 odds of being around another five years.
"The fact Shopko is here today is a tribute to all the members of Shopko … because we were the only regional discounter that survived the influx of Walmarts and Targets," Kramer said. "There were a lot of strategies put into place that helped Shopko grow and to compete favorably, and profitably, against the giants."
Jones agrees.
"There's no reason we should be here with the kind of competition we have … if it weren't for the extraordinary commitment and contributions of the teammates we have," he said. "There's no rational way to explain it."
Shopko in Dubuque, Iowa (former Zayre/Venture location):
Exterior:
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Close-up:
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After exterior renovation:
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Interior (the light fixtures are a bit different, but it still has the typical Shopko layout):
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How many of you are waiting for the the expansion of Shopko?
Here's a link to a map of where the Shopko and Shopko Hometown Stores are located so far:
http://www.shopko.com/locator (http://www.shopko.com/locator)
I was in SPringfield IL and I saw the Shopkos GONE! I saw a pamada in Ohio say coming soon shopko hometown sttore
Quote from: ShopKoFan on July 02, 2012, 06:44:29 PM
How many of you are waiting for the the expansion of Shopko?
Here's a link to a map of where the Shopko and Shopko Hometown Stores are located so far:
http://www.shopko.com/locator (http://www.shopko.com/locator)
North Dakota doesn't have a ShopKo?? I wonder when it'll come to CT?
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Shopko buys naming rights for Lambeau Field's south gate
South gate to open in 2013
Updated: Monday, 23 Jul 2012, 6:21 PM CDT
Published : Monday, 23 Jul 2012, 10:55 AM CDT
GREEN BAY - Ashwaubenon-based retailer Shopko will sponsor the new south gate at Lambeau Field.
The Green Bay Packers announced the naming rights deal Monday.
The Shopko Gate will be part of what the Packers are calling a “south end†neighborhood of Lambeau Field, which includes concession stands, escalators and restrooms to serve the 7,000 fans that will be added to the area when the current $143 million project is completed.
The Shopko Gate is expected to open in 2013.
Source: WLUK-TV "FOX 11"/fox11online.com
http://host.madison.com/wsj/business/shopko-uses-a-new-approach-to-serve-smaller-communities/article_a8911aea-0fe1-11e2-8046-0019bb2963f4.html
Quote from: d_fife on July 03, 2012, 09:54:50 AM
I was in SPringfield IL and I saw the Shopkos GONE! I saw a pamada in Ohio say coming soon shopko hometown sttore
The Shopko stores in Springfield did not perform well lately.
My latest discovery: layouts of select Shopko discount department stores are being mapped out by Google maps, right down to the little details, such as the checkouts, restrooms and in-store Payless ShoeSource departments.
Here's a list of all the Shopko stores (excluding Shopko Express Rx and Hometown stores) that have their layout mapped out by Google Maps. If there is no mention of the mapping by the location mentioned, that means Google hasn't gotten around to mapping that location yet.
001 - Green Bay, WI - 216 Military Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
002 - Ashwaubenon, WI - 301 Bay Park Square (Bay Park Square Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical] (Store layout mapped out on Google Maps alongside the neighboring Bay Park Square Mall directory)
003 - Manitowoc, WI - 3415 Calumet Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
004 - Green Bay, WI - 2430 E Mason St. (East Town Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical] (Store layout mapped out on Google Maps)
005 - De Pere, WI - 230 N Wisconsin St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
007 - LaCrosse, WI - 4344 Mormon Coulee Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
008 - Rothschild, WI - 1105 E Grand Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
009 - Marshfield, WI - 1306 N Central Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical] (Store layout mapped out on Google Maps)
010 - Marquette, MI - 1150 W Washington St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
011 - Kingsford, MI - 500 S Carpenter Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
012 - Wisconsin Rapids, WI - 1100 E Riverview Expressway [Pharmacy/Optical] (Store layout mapped out on Google Maps)
014 - Beaver Dam, WI - 822 Park Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
015 - Appleton, WI - 1000 Northland Ave. (Northland Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical] (Store layout mapped out on Google Maps; the neighboring Northland Mall not yet mapped)
016 - Escanaba, MI - 2530 First Ave. N (Delta Plaza Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
017 - St. Cloud, MN - 4161 2nd St. S [Pharmacy/Optical] (Store layout mapped out on Google Maps)
018 - West Bend, WI - 1710 S Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
019 - Watertown, WI - 701 S Church St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
020 - LaCrosse, WI - 2400 Rose St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
021 - Mankato, MN - 1850 Madison Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
022 - Mitchell, SD - 1900 N Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
023 - Hutchinson, MN - 125 Main St. N [Pharmacy/Optical]
024 - Eau Claire, WI - 955 Clairemont Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical] (Store layout mapped out on Google Maps)
025 - Marshall, MN - 1200 Susan Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
026 - Beloit, WI - 2761 Prairie Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
027 - Racine, WI - 4801 Washington Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
028 - Kimberly, WI - 800 E Maes St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
029 - Madison, WI - 7401 Mineral Point Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical] (Store layout mapped out on Google Maps)
030 - Janesville, WI - 2500 US Highway 14 [Pharmacy/Optical]
031 - Kenosha, WI - 5300 52nd St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
032 - Madison, WI - 2101 W Broadway [Pharmacy/Optical]
033 - Menasha, WI - 1578 Appleton Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
034 - Madison, WI - 2602 Shopko Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
035 - Rochester, MN - 2820 Highway 63 South [Pharmacy/Optical]
036 - Rochester, MN - 3708 Highway 63 North [Pharmacy/Optical]
037 - Chippewa Falls, WI - 2677 State Highway 53 [Pharmacy/Optical]
038 - Grand Island, NE - 2208 N Webb Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
039 - Lincoln, NE - 4200 S 27th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
040 - Sioux City, IA - 3025 Hamilton Blvd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
041 - Austin, MN - 1209 18th Ave. NW [Pharmacy/Optical]
042 - Oshkosh, WI - 1300 Koeller St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
044 - Omaha, NE - 3020 S 84th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
045 - Bellevue, NE - 601 Galvin Rd. South [Pharmacy/Optical]
046 - Omaha, NE - 5646 N 90th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
047 - Lincoln, NE - 100 S 66th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
048 - Norfolk, NE - 2005 Krenzien St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
049 - Aberdeen, SD - 500 N Highway 281 [Pharmacy/Optical]
050 - Fond Du Lac, WI - 616 W Johnson St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
051 - Fort Atkinson, WI - 1425 Janesville Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
052 - Mason City, IA - 615 S Monroe Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
053 - North Platte, NE - 510 E Philip Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
054 - Watertown, SD - 700 9th Ave. SE [Pharmacy/Optical]
055 - Stevens Point, WI - 1200 Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
056 - Omaha West, NE - 14445 W Center Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
057 - Winona, MN - 405 Cottonwood Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
058 - Worthington, MN - 1755 N Humiston Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
059 - Fairmont, MN - 1001 S Highway 15 [Pharmacy/Optical]
060 - Albert Lea, MN - 2610 Northbridge Ave. (Northbridge Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
061 - St. Cloud, MN - 501 Highway 10 SE [Pharmacy/Optical]
062 - Great Falls, MT - 301 Northwest Bypass [Pharmacy/Optical]
063 - Pocatello, ID - 4215 Yellowstone Highway (Pine Ridge Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
064 - Nampa, ID - 2100 Caldwell Blvd [Pharmacy/Optical]
065 - Boise, ID - 8105 Fairview Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
066 - Spokane, WA - 9520 Newport Highway [Pharmacy/Optical]
067 - Twin Falls, ID - 1649 Pole Line Rd. East (Magic Valley Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
068 - Idaho Falls, ID - 800 E 17 St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
069 - Coeur D'Alene, ID - 217 W Ironwood Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
070 - Spokane, WA - 13414 Sprague Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
072 - Lewiston, ID - 2120 Thain Grade [Pharmacy/Optical]
073 - Union Gap, WA - 2530 Rudkin Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
075 - Missoula, MT - 2510 S Reserve St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
076 - Sioux Falls, SD - 1601 W 41st St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
078 - Rapid City, SD - 1845 Haines Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
079 - Wausau, WI - 200 South 18th Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical] (Store layout mapped out on Google Maps)
080 - Madison, WI - 2201 Zeier Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
081 - Yakima, WA - 5801 Summit View Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
082 - Murray, UT - 5959 S State St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
083 - Sandy, UT - 2165 E 9400 South [Pharmacy/Optical]
084 - West Jordan, UT - 1553 W 9000 South [Pharmacy/Optical] (Store layout mapped out on Google Maps)
085 - Taylorsville, UT - 5800 S Redwood Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
086 - Provo, UT - 2266 N University Parkway [Pharmacy/Optical]
087 - Ogden, UT - 1818 Washington Blvd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
088 - Layton, UT - 1150 N Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
089 - Walla Walla, WA - 1600 W Rose St. (Blue Mountain Mall) [Pharmacy/Optical]
090 - Grafton, WI - 1771 Wisconsin Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
091 - Logan, UT - 1341 N Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
092 - Kennewick, WA - 867 N Columbia Center Blvd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
093 - Bend, OR - 60 NE Bend River Mall Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
095 - Boise, ID - 2655 S Broadway Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
096 - Redding, CA - 55 Lake Blvd. [Pharmacy only]
097 - West Valley, UT - 4850 W 3500 South [Pharmacy/Optical]
098 - Eugene, OR - 2815 Chad Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
099 - Onalaska, WI - 9366 State Highway 16 [Pharmacy/Optical] (Store layout mapped out on Google Maps)
100 - Neenah, WI - 699 Green Bay Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
101 - Sioux Falls, SD - 4501 E Arrowhead Parkway [Pharmacy/Optical]
102 - Marinette, WI - 2741 Roosevelt Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
104 - Brigham City, UT - 747 S Main St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
105 - Orem, UT - 125 S State St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
106 - Billings, MT - 905 S 24 West [Pharmacy/Optical]
107 - Bountiful, UT - 190 S 500 West [Pharmacy/Optical]
108 - Spanish Fork, UT - 955 N Main Street [Pharmacy/Optical]
109 - Riverdale, UT - 4060 Riverdale Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
110 - Sugarhouse, UT - 2290 S 1300 East [Pharmacy/Optical]
111 - Salem, OR - 1230 Lancaster Dr. SE [Pharmacy/Optical]
112 - Helena, MT - 3101 Montana Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
113 - Lacey, WA - 5500 Martin Way [Pharmacy/Optical]
114 - Duluth, MN - 801 W Central Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
116 - Sheboygan, WI - 518 S Taylor Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
119 - Dixon, IL - 1350 N Galena Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
120 - Monroe, WI - 405 W 8th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
122 - Wenatchee, WA - 1340 N Wenatchee Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
123 - Houghton, MI - 900 W Memorial Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
125 - Freeport, IL - 555 W South St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
127 - Delavan, WI - 1450 E Geneva St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
128 - Kalispell, MT - 1370 Highway 2 East [Pharmacy/Optical]
129 - Spokane, WA - 4515 S Regal St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
130 - River Falls, WI - 1777 Paulson Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
132 - Rice Lake, WI - 320 Highway O [Pharmacy/Optical]
133 - Belvidere, IL - 1400 Big Thunder Blvd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
134 - Pullman, WA - 1450 Grand Ave [Pharmacy/Optical]
139 - Quincy, IL - 3200 Broadway [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
140 - Jacksonville, IL - 1964 W Morton Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
141 - Burlington, IA - 313 N Roosevelt Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
142 - Fort Madison, IA - 4810 Avenue O [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
145 - Monmouth, IL - 1190 N 6th St. Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Jacks Discount Store location>
164 - Dubuque, IA - 255 John F. Kennedy Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical] <former Venture store #27>
169 - Meridian, ID - 3499 E Fairview Ave. [Pharmacy/Optical]
170 - Rhinelander, WI - 2200 Lincoln St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
171 - Plover, WI - 1800 Plover Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
172 - Lincoln, NE - 3400 N 27th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
175 - Lincoln, NE - 6845 S 27th St. [Pharmacy/Optical]
177 - Suamico, WI - 2320 Lineville Rd. [Pharmacy/Optical]
178 - Sussex, WI - N66W25201 County Highway VV [Pharmacy/Optical]
179 - North Branch, MN - 5630 St. Croix Trail [Pharmacy/Optical]
180 - Council Bluffs, IA - 3271 Marketplace Dr. [Pharmacy/Optical]
As you can see here, Google Maps has gotten around to mapping a handful of Shopko stores. Other places Google has mapped layouts of, include big box retailers like Best Buy and The Home Depot, shopping malls (including the Mall of America), some supermarket chains, and some restaurants.
Shopko plans two more Hometown stores
Dec 13, 2013, 10:45am CST
Updated: Dec 16, 2013, 2:07pm CST
By David Schuyler,
The Business JournalQuoteShopko Stores Operating Co. LLC of Ashwaubenon said Thursday it will open two more Shopko Hometown stores in May 2014, including one in Mayville.
In addition to the Mayville location, Shopko will open a store in Valentine, Neb., in an expansion of the company's Hometown retail format, which largely includes former Pamida stores. Shopko and Pamida merged in March 2012.
Shopko Hometown stores focus on smaller rural communities and offer products in apparel, home furnishings and consumer electronics, among other areas. There will be more than 180 Hometown locations when the new stores open.
I'm sorry ShopKoFan but I really, really doubt ShopKo will expand significantly outside the west anytime soon, if ever. This isn't saying new people wouldn't like ShopKo if given the opportunity to experience it, but Walmart is such a vicious competitor, and even then Kmart still has a monopoly in some areas due to no land availability for a new Walmart or Target. And Target has already entered 49 states (Vermont being the only exception so far), not to mention they are very similar to ShopKo in every way, if not slightly more upscale. If that weren't bad enough for new players in this industry, the Christmas Tree Shops chain owned by Bed Bath & Beyond seems to be imitating Target in every way, except with much smaller stores, similar in size to the Woolworth and Kresge stores of the past. Also it seems Meijer has no interest in growing outside their core region, though they have used at least a few former Kmart store sites, which might be a model to grow upon as Kmart continues to shrink. Now if Kmart/Sears ever does go out of business, that might open the country up for ShopKo/Meijer expansion, but as it is, Kmart/Sears will do anything to stay in existence, even if it means stores are closing one by one.
Quote from: Stork of The Weak on March 24, 2014, 05:28:33 PM
I'm sorry ShopKoFan but I really, really doubt ShopKo will expand significantly outside the west anytime soon, if ever. This isn't saying new people wouldn't like ShopKo if given the opportunity to experience it, but Walmart is such a vicious competitor, and even then Kmart still has a monopoly in some areas due to no land availability for a new Walmart or Target. And Target has already entered 49 states (Vermont being the only exception so far), not to mention they are very similar to ShopKo in every way, if not slightly more upscale. If that weren't bad enough for new players in this industry, the Christmas Tree Shops chain owned by Bed Bath & Beyond seems to be imitating Target in every way, except with much smaller stores, similar in size to the Woolworth and Kresge stores of the past. Also it seems Meijer has no interest in growing outside their core region, though they have used at least a few former Kmart store sites, which might be a model to grow upon as Kmart continues to shrink. Now if Kmart/Sears ever does go out of business, that might open the country up for ShopKo/Meijer expansion, but as it is, Kmart/Sears will do anything to stay in existence, even if it means stores are closing one by one.
I agree with all of this. I've been keeping up with the local news outlets (ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX) and the local newspapers, and here is some of the info I've gathered:
Shopko:
* Staying focused on expanding their "Hometown" store format (a majority of which were former Pamida stores) instead of competing directly with Walmart or Target, in the store's home state of Wisconsin as well as the states surrounding it.
Meijer:
* Meijer is currently expanding into Wisconsin, with stores in the area surrounding Milwaukee, set to open in 2014. Meijer is planning to open three locations in the Green Bay area. Only one of those planned areas was leaked to the public via our local FOX affiliate. Meijer is also currently expanding in Illinois and Indiana.
Shopko does not carry everything Walmart or Target or Kmart carries, like Spanish or other foreign language DVDs, like Televisa's El Chavo del 8 and its animated spinoff, El Chavo Animado, for example.
will Shopko expand? And how come its not in Chicago, SEattle, Portland, Minneapolis but has stores in those states?
Quote from: d_fife on April 14, 2014, 10:27:50 AM
will Shopko expand? And how come its not in Chicago, SEattle, Portland, Minneapolis but has stores in those states?
ShopKo, like Ames, seems to prefer rural and small-town locations.
They would have to make some big adjustments in order to succeed in those markets.
Zayre in particular had some
big problems with their urban stores in Chicago, which
Ames inherited after the merger. ShopKo may prefer to grow the company by expanding
their current format to more similar markets, rather than making the adjustment needed to
break into the big cities.
What's up with Payless ShoeSource having a partnership with ShopKo? I think of Payless as bottom of the barrel and seedy, but ShopKo seems so much higher quality. But I must say it almost makes me respect Payless more if ShopKo decided to team up with them, enough for the money from shoe sales at ShopKo to instead go to the Payless owners.
Is that perhaps some type of a leased department deal?
Like the arrangement Ames used to have with J. Baker Shoes?
Quote from: Stork of The Weak on April 14, 2014, 09:12:04 PM
What's up with Payless ShoeSource having a partnership with ShopKo? I think of Payless as bottom of the barrel and seedy, but ShopKo seems so much higher quality. But I must say it almost makes me respect Payless more if ShopKo decided to team up with them, enough for the money from shoe sales at ShopKo to instead go to the Payless owners.
I can't think of one discount chain with decent shoes. Kmart (used to?) lease out their shoe departments. The shoes at Walmart and Target are about the same level as Payless quality and price-wise.
Quote from: TheFugitive on April 14, 2014, 10:46:21 AM
Quote from: d_fife on April 14, 2014, 10:27:50 AM
will Shopko expand? And how come its not in Chicago, SEattle, Portland, Minneapolis but has stores in those states?
ShopKo, like Ames, seems to prefer rural and small-town locations.
They would have to make some big adjustments in order to succeed in those markets.
Zayre in particular had some big problems with their urban stores in Chicago, which
Ames inherited after the merger. ShopKo may prefer to grow the company by expanding
their current format to more similar markets, rather than making the adjustment needed to
break into the big cities.
Shopko has locations in Salt Lake City, Utah, which happens to be their largest market.
Shopko also has a location in Boise, Idaho, and Shopko used to have a few stores in Peoria and Springfield, Illinois, before they pulled the plug on those markets due low attendance and sales figures.
Boise ain't Chicago. That was my point.
Shopko was planning to merge with Phar-Mor back in 1996, but Shopko decided to call off the merger, because of irreconcilable differences.
Shopko was once owned by SuperValu, similar to how Bradlees was once owned by Stop & Shop.
Shopko has only one store in California, in the city of Redding, California on 55 Lake Boulevard.
Shopko was the first discount store to add pharmacy and optical centers, doing so in the 1970s.
Shopko has three distribution centers: one in DePere, Wisconsin, one in Omaha, Nebraska, and one in Boise, Idaho.
Shopko's first location is located on Military Avenue in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Most Shopko stores are located in mid-sized cities or suburbs of larger cities.
Quote from: Stork of The Weak on April 14, 2014, 09:12:04 PM
What's up with Payless ShoeSource having a partnership with ShopKo? I think of Payless as bottom of the barrel and seedy, but ShopKo seems so much higher quality. But I must say it almost makes me respect Payless more if ShopKo decided to team up with them, enough for the money from shoe sales at ShopKo to instead go to the Payless owners.
Shopko has two shoe departments:
One for athletic shoes (Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Fila, etc.), and another for Payless ShoeSource, which functions like a store within a store.
There is a musical group from the UP of Michigan called Da Yoopers.
They recorded a Christmas album with a parody version of Jingle Bells
(told from a Yooper's perspective, of course)
Oh, rust and smoke, the heater's broke, the door just blew away.
I light a match to see the dash and then I start to pray-ay.
The frame is bent, the muffler went, the radio's okay.
Oh, what fun it is to drive this rusty Chevrolet!
The song goes on to immortalize ShopKo.
I've got to get to ShopKo
To pick up the layaway
Quote from: ShopKoFan on May 10, 2014, 09:36:26 PM
Quote from: Stork of The Weak on April 14, 2014, 09:12:04 PM
What's up with Payless ShoeSource having a partnership with ShopKo? I think of Payless as bottom of the barrel and seedy, but ShopKo seems so much higher quality. But I must say it almost makes me respect Payless more if ShopKo decided to team up with them, enough for the money from shoe sales at ShopKo to instead go to the Payless owners.
Shopko has two shoe departments:
One for athletic shoes (Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Fila, etc.), and another for Payless ShoeSource, which functions like a store within a store.
There are two Payless ShoeSource stores at Bay Park Square in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin.
One is the traditional in-line Payless ShoeSource store, located in the Kohl's wing, a few stores down from GameStop. The other Payless is located inside Shopko.
There's nothing much happening in the news lately about Shopko, except that they're focusing on opening more Shopko Hometown stores. Shopko is still based in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and is not going anywhere. As you guys may have noticed, some of Shopko's stores aren't much to look at. They sell all the basics (general merchandise and a limited amount of dry groceries) under one roof, yet they want to be viewed as a competitor to their closest Midwest competitor, Target. Their selection of general merchandise is limited compared to Walmart, Kmart, and Target, because, like I said, their stores only cover the basics (they only have English DVDs and CDs, so if you want to buy a Spanish DVD or CD, try Walmart, or another store that sells foreign DVDs), and to make up for the fact that their store has such a basic selection, Shopko has such services as a pharmacy and optical center to serve people who need prescription medicine, contact lenses, or eyeglasses. I doubt Shopko or any of its related stores will expand out east, if at all. People on this website keep asking, but they'll get the same answer.
Quote from: ShopKoFan on July 11, 2014, 11:31:26 PM
There's nothing much happening in the news lately about Shopko, except that they're focusing on opening more Shopko Hometown stores. Shopko is still based in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and is not going anywhere. As you guys may have noticed, some of Shopko's stores aren't much to look at. They sell all the basics (general merchandise and a limited amount of dry groceries) under one roof, yet they want to be viewed as a competitor to their closest Midwest competitor, Target. Their selection of general merchandise is limited compared to Walmart, Kmart, and Target, because, like I said, their stores only cover the basics (they only have English DVDs and CDs, so if you want to buy a Spanish DVD or CD, try Walmart, or another store that sells foreign DVDs), and to make up for the fact that their store has such a basic selection, Shopko has such services as a pharmacy and optical center to serve people who need prescription medicine, contact lenses, or eyeglasses. I doubt Shopko or any of its related stores will expand out east, if at all. People on this website keep asking, but they'll get the same answer.
What I meant to say is that, yes, Shopko is not as grand as Walmart or Target, but it is still still upscale enough to compete with Target. The store's target customer always has been the mother of the family.
The Shopko store on 2602 Shopko Drive on Madison's east side in Madison, Wisconsin is closing due to deteriorating sales; will cut 66 jobs, name of the street will not change for the time being:
*ShopKo will close Madison store (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/business/261161831.html (http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/business/261161831.html)
*Shopko plans to close one of four Madison-area stores (Wisconsin State Journal) http://host.madison.com/business/shopko-plans-to-close-one-of-four-madison-area-stores/article_ae038637-83e3-5f56-a185-c41b912ba021.html (http://host.madison.com/business/shopko-plans-to-close-one-of-four-madison-area-stores/article_ae038637-83e3-5f56-a185-c41b912ba021.html)
*ShopKo to close Madison store (WISC Channel 3, CBS, Madison, "Channel 3000") http://www.channel3000.com/money/shopko-to-close-madison-store/26243280 (http://www.channel3000.com/money/shopko-to-close-madison-store/26243280)
*One Madison Shopko location closing (WKOW Channel 27, ABC, Madison) http://www.wkow.com/story/25645982/2014/05/29/one-madison-shopko-location-closing (http://www.wkow.com/story/25645982/2014/05/29/one-madison-shopko-location-closing)
*Shopko announces layoffs, closing at Madison store (Milwaukee Business Journal) http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2014/05/30/shopko-announces-layoffs-closing-at-madison-store.html (http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2014/05/30/shopko-announces-layoffs-closing-at-madison-store.html)
*UPDATED: ShopKo to close Madison store (WMTV NBC15, Madison) http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/ShopKo-to-close-Madison-store-261231351.html (http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/ShopKo-to-close-Madison-store-261231351.html)
*Local Shopko closing (IB Madison) http://www.ibmadison.com/In-Business-Madison/May-2014/Local-Shopko-closing/ (http://www.ibmadison.com/In-Business-Madison/May-2014/Local-Shopko-closing/)
This Shopko store closing came to me as a surprise during a time when Kmart and Sears are closing most of their stores for similar reasons. Aside from this store closing, the rest of the Shopko and Shopko Hometown stores are doing well.
Shopko to unveil partial store remodeling project
September 17, 2014 | By Vivian Lee
Shopko plans to unveil the results of a partial store remodeling project in all of its 133 Shopko stores Sept. 18.
The remodel includes the removal of the stores' large glass jewelry cabinets to make shopping in the jewelry department more convenient and accessible to consumers. Customers will no longer have to wait for a store associate to unlock and remove jewelry items, but will be able to easily see, touch and try on jewelry pieces.
The removal of the jewelry cabinets allows for more floor space to expand the assortment of fashion jewelry. Shopko is also expanding its selection of misses and plus size active wear and outerwear and swimwear assortments â€" categories that have seen significant growth over the past few years.
"We are confident our customers are going to love this change to our stores," said Jill Soltau, Shopko president and chief merchandising officer. "Our jewelry selection will be much easier to browse and experiment with; and with jewelry playing a key role in individualizing and completing your look, that convenience and access, combined with a new expanded selection of on-trend pieces, will be a big plus for our customers."
As part of the expansion of its active apparel, Shopko will be significantly expanding its exclusive offering of its Energy Zone active wear. The expansion features technical performance workout tops, tees, hoodies, bras, hosiery as well as an October relaunch of its Energy Zone active bottoms program.
"The athleisure trend is changing the way American women are dressing, making it necessary to expand our product assortment to ensure we are providing a wide array of options for consumers," added Soltau. "Our expansion will allow us to increase our bottoms collection and key item tops that are important to them as part of their active lifestyle. Our expanded assortment will feature something for everyone."
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Mall lands deal to bring in Shopko
The Mountain Mall is planning a remodel of its exterior with the hopes of bringing in a Shopko Hometown store as a tenant.
Whitefish Pilot, Whitefish, Montana
A Shopko Hometown store will soon occupy a large chunk of the Mountain Mall’s retail space.
Shopko has signed a lease with mall owners Carrington Co., for an approximately 37,000-square-foot space in the center of the mall.
Last month, city council approved using $200,000 in tax-increment funds to assist with a remodel of the mall. Shopko’s lease agreement with the mall was contingent upon the mall getting an exterior facelift.
The mall renovation to accommodate Shopko is estimated at $3.7 million. The facade remodel will include replacing the original block with natural stone and stucco to complement the recently remodeled Sportsman & Ski Haus.
Shopko will employ about 25 to 30 people.
“We’re very excited. This is a big deal for the mall. Shopko is a big business and will be a third anchor for the mall,†said Tom Kraus, the property manager and lease director of the mall. “It will fill a need for Whitefish and we think it will be a very good thing,â€
The department store will displace about eight businesses in the mall. Two of the impacted businesses have already or are in the process of moving out.
Whitefish Dance Studio relocated to Windmill Business Park on Highway 2. The Flying Fish Kids’ Gym moved its equipment to the Flathead Gymnastic Academy. Nature Baby Outfitter will relocate to East Second Street in Whitefish at the space previously occupied by the Cigarette Depot across from the middle school.
Feelings were mixed about the arrival of Shopko among business owners and residents.
Jade Carpenter the owner of Nature Baby Outfitter and the Flying Fish Kids’ Gym didn’t think Shopko was going to be an asset to her business.
“I liked the whole community feel of the mall and how they had family events,†she said. “I don’t see how that’s going to happen with Shopko running down the middle of it.â€
Carpenter said she no longer felt the mall was a good fit for her business, and that the new space the mall was offering was more expensive than her original lease.
Sarah Wellemeyer, an owner of Taco Del Sol, thinks that Shopko coming to Whitefish will be good for the city and the mall. Taco Del Sol is currently in negotiations to relocate to another space within the mall.
Stu Saye, owner of Montana Olive Oil Inc. and Sensayetional Golf also plans to keep his businesses at the mall.
Club Bed Tanning, Bonsai Brewing Project and Ben Franklin will also be impacted.
A Facebook page “Whitefish Shopko? No thank you†was created in May as a public forum to share opinions on the store coming to the mall.
Michelle Shaffer commented on the page that there are not many affordable options in Whitefish for small business owners to rent.
“Big business takes the heart out of what makes this community thrive,†she commented. “Not to mention a 10 minute drive can get you to Target, Walmart, Home Depot ect.â€
Dennis Wright commented that Shopko will bring good jobs to town.
“Bet you anything that Shopko will employ more people with the ability to grant better benefits such as health insurance that mom and pop [stores] couldn’t offer.â€
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http://www.mtnmall.com/index.php - official website for Mountain Mall in Whitefish, Montana.
Quote from: dmx10101 on September 18, 2014, 01:38:22 AM
The remodel includes the removal of the stores' large glass jewelry cabinets to make shopping in the jewelry department more convenient and accessible to consumers. Customers will no longer have to wait for a store associate to unlock and remove jewelry items, but will be able to easily see, touch and try on jewelry pieces.
The removal of the jewelry cabinets allows for more floor space to expand the assortment of fashion jewelry.
I suspect the Target store near me will do this as well.
Currently their jewelry cases are all lined with paper and jewelry sits on spinning racks atop the counter.
The jewelry department is no longer manned.
Ahhh.....retail execs lying awake at night thinking of new ways to eliminate one more
minimum-wage position. Nice to see the business has not changed since I left it. ::)
Shopko Hometown acquires 20 former ALCO stores including this location in Bowman, North Dakota:
(http://www.bowmanextra.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_20150304_125941407-1024x577.jpg)
Shopko is also converting other former ALCO store locations in Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Texas to the Shopko Hometown brand.
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An ALCO store in Moose Lake, Minnesota, during store closing, one of many stores that became a Shopko Hometown store (note that the store's façade is the same as the Bowman store, pictured above).
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Former ALCO locations that are now Shopko Hometown locations:
•Burlington, CO
•DeMotte, IN
•Abilene, KS
•Beloit, KS
•Ulysses, KS
•Mahnomen, MN
•Moose Lake, MN
•Wolf Point, MT
•Bowman, ND
•New Town, ND
•Oakes, ND
•Rolla, ND
•Tioga, ND
•Mobridge, SD
•Andrews, TX
•Dalhart, TX
•Kermit, TX
•Monahans, TX
•Perryton, TX
•Moab, UT
Shopko has changed their slogan once again:
Shopko drops "My Life, My Style, My Store." for "The Stuff That Counts."
A vintage Shopko commercial:
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Former ShopKo store, Hastings, Nebraska (Now Big G Ace Hardware)
Shopko's new commercial for 2015 (The stuff that counts):
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QuoteThere are people in this world who devote their lives to the pursuit of stuff.
People who confuse the shiny objects they chase with the object of life.
Here's a radical thought: what if it's not more stuff we need?
What if it's about having just enough of the right stuff, to live a great life?
We come from a place where less is more.
Where peoples' priorities are just a little bit straighter.
It's not the outfit. It's the comment you get when you wear it.
It's not the chips and the soda. It's the family picnic you enjoy them at.
At Shopko, we're not a big box. We're a better box.
Our stores are simple, clean, and welcoming. Not overwhelming.
Just the essentials you need, from the brands you trust, at a fair price.
Because at the end of the day, it really isn't about the stuff. It's about the life you live with it.
Shopko. The stuff that counts.
Shopko is currently renovating all of their stores. This time, they are leaving no stone unturned by having all of their big box and Hometown stores renovated from top to bottom, interior and exterior. Stores will be open during construction. The stores will have a new lime green color scheme, reminiscent of the Kmart prototype stores of 2002. As you all may have heard, "The Stuff That Counts." replaces "My Life, My Style, My Store." as their slogan.
Former Shopko/Shopko Express Rx/Twin Valu Locations by State
Colorado (Shopko)
*Fort Collins, Colorado - 135 Bockman Drive - now a JCPenney.
*Longmont, Colorado - 955 S Hover Street - now a JCPenney.
*Loveland, Colorado - 950 E Eisenhower Boulevard - divided between Jax Outdoor Gear and Gold's Gym.
Illinois (Shopko)
*East Peoria, Illinois - 105 North Main Street (former Walmart) - VACANT.
*Galesburg, Illinois - 888 South Lake Storey Road (former Jacks) - VACANT.
*Macomb, Illinois - 1620 East Jackson (former Jacks) - now Farm King.
*Moline, Illinois - 2000 36th Avenue (former Venture #61) - VACANT.
*Pekin, Illinois - 3465 Court Street (former Jacks) - now Big R.
*Peoria, Illinois - 2323 W. Pioneer Parkway - VACANT. (1999 prototype store)
*Rockford, Illinois - 5880 E. State Street (former Venture #???) - building converted to 'strip mall' use. The largest anchor tenant, Old Time Pottery uses the main entrance that was used by Venture, and later by Shopko.
*Springfield, Illinois - 3001 S. Dirksen Parkway (former Zayre) - VACANT.
*Springfield, Illinois - 3030 Wabash Avenue (former Jacks) - now a Farm & Home Supply store.
Indiana (Shopko)
*Evansville, Indiana - 101 N. Green River Road (former Hills) - divided between Cici's Pizza and Burlington Coat Factory.
*Evansville, Indiana - 2500 North 1st Ave. (former Hills) - DEMOLISHED.
Iowa (Shopko)
*Bettendorf, Iowa - 1431 Kimberly Road (former Target/Jacks) - now Burlington Coat Factory.
*Cedar Rapids, Iowa - 5001 1st Avenue (former Jacks) - now The MAC, Infinity Contract, and Carpetland USA.
*Cedar Rapids, Iowa - 3111 16th Avenue SW (former Jacks) - now Thiesen's.
*Clinton, Iowa - 1905 Lincoln Highway (former Jacks) - now Big River Packaging.
*Coralville, Iowa - 2050 8th Street (former Jacks) - now Hobby Lobby.
*Keokuk, Iowa - 2323 Main St. (former Jacks) - now Faith Family Church.
*Muscatine, Iowa - 501 West Bypass 61 (former Jacks) - now Calvary Church.
*Spencer, Iowa - 901 11th Street Southwest (former Jacks) - now forms part of the South Park Mall.
Kansas (Shopko)
*Wichita, Kansas - 350 S. Tracy Street (former Venture #???) - VACANT.
*Wichita, Kansas - 2057 N. Rock Road - divided between Gordman's, Dick's Sporting Goods, GameStop, and SuperCuts. (1999 prototype store)
Kentucky (Shopko)
*Paducah, Kentucky - 5101 Hinkleville Road (former Venture #125) - now Dick's Sporting Goods.
Missouri (Shopko)
*Cape Girardeau, Missouri - 300 West Park Mall (former Venture #128) - VACANT.
*Hannibal, Missouri - 4417 McMasters Avenue (former Jacks) - now Sutherlands.
*Joplin, Missouri - 101 N. Rangeline Road (Northpark Mall) (former Venture #???) - this was the temporary home to Joplin High School after a tornado destroyed their original building.
Nebraska (Shopko)
*Hastings, Nebraska - 3202 Osborne Drive West - now Big G Ace Hardware.
*Omaha, Nebraska - 7402 North 30 Street - divided between No Frills Supermarket and Dollar Tree (Dollar Tree uses Shopko's former entrance.).
Nevada (Shopko)
*Reno, Nevada - 5150 Mae Anne Avenue - now Kohl's.
*Reno, Nevada - 6139 South Virginia Street - divided between Whole Foods Market and Sierra Trading Post.
*Sparks, Nevada - 2260 Oddie Boulevard - DEMOLISHED.
Ohio (Twin Valu hypermarkets)
*Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio - 449 Howe Avenue - now Target and Best Buy.
*Euclid, Ohio - 1200 Babbitt Road - later a Super Kmart, then an exposition hall, now VACANT.
Ohio (Twin Valu supermarkets)
*Belden Village, Ohio - 4790 Everhard Road NW - now Burlington Coat Factory and TJ Maxx.
*Maple Heights, Ohio - 5321 Warrensville Center Road - now Giant Eagle.
Oregon (Shopko)
*Eugene, Oregon - 955 Bailey Hill Road - torn down for Lowe's.
Utah (Shopko)
*Provo, Utah - 2266 N University Parkway - VACANT.
*West Bountiful, Utah - 190 S 500 W - VACANT.
Wisconsin (Shopko)
*Green Bay, Wisconsin - 1819 Main Street (co-located with Sure Way and a local pharmacy) - later a Copps Food Center, DEMOLISHED for a Planet Fitness (this store was Shopko's original 2nd location, built in 1966, Shopko moved into a new store next to East Town Mall in 1988.)
*Madison, Wisconsin - 2602 Shopko Drive - VACANT.
*Menasha, Wisconsin - 1800 Appleton Road (co-located with a Copps Food Center) - now a Goodwill Store and training center.
*West Bend, Wisconsin - 1629 Main Street - DEMOLISHED with mall, replaced by Pick 'n Save, new store built across the street with strip mall.
Wisconsin (Shopko Express Rx)
*Green Bay, Wisconsin - 300 N. Broadway Street - now offices.
Shopko's new look introduced late last year to the Green Bay Area:
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Quote from: ShopKoFan on January 12, 2016, 12:21:26 AM
Shopko's new look introduced late last year to the Green Bay Area:
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Is it just me, or do those signs look an awful lot like a green version of a Target sign?
The Eyecare center, jewelry ones are what I mean.
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This former ALCO store in Clarinda, Iowa will soon be home to another Shopko Hometown store.
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This former ALCO store in Clarinda, Iowa will soon be home to another Shopko Hometown store.
Hopefully they repaint the front of that store, since the white sign doesn't show up very well on that white/pink combination (I assume the white squares were for the letters in ALCO).
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This former ALCO store in Clarinda, Iowa will soon be home to another Shopko Hometown store.
Hopefully they repaint the front of that store, since the white sign doesn't show up very well on that white/pink combination (I assume the white squares were for the letters in ALCO).
My guess, that the front will be painted green. That's not pink, but red you're seeing in the picture. After ALCO changed their logo, they also changed their color scheme from purple to red, as well as relocate their corporate HQ from Kansas to Texas. Things went from bad to worse when ALCO filed for bankruptcy in 2014, with their final store closing for good in 2015.
Quote from: ShopKoFan on March 06, 2016, 08:20:18 AM
Quote from: BillyGr on March 05, 2016, 01:47:28 PM
Hopefully they repaint the front of that store, since the white sign doesn't show up very well on that white/pink combination (I assume the white squares were for the letters in ALCO).
My guess, that the front will be painted green. That's not pink, but red you're seeing in the picture. After ALCO changed their logo, they also changed their color scheme from purple to red, as well as relocate their corporate HQ from Kansas to Texas. Things went from bad to worse when ALCO filed for bankruptcy in 2014, with their final store closing for good in 2015.
It probably was red but has since faded (look at the small section in the corner to the left of the doors and you can see the difference, also a tiny bit around the white blocks is darker as well).
The former Venture/Shopko location will be converted back to big box store use, now that a new Joplin High School location has been built as of 2014.
March 18, 2016
Shopko Expands by Targeting Rural Markets With Smaller Format
By Arthur Zaczkiewicz, "WWD"
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Shopko's Hometown smaller format stores are opening in more rural markets.
As larger retail chains reexamine their store base and close units, Green Bay, Wis.-based Shopko is adding stores. And the retailer is doing it by finding opportunities in rural areas and by opening a smaller-format unit, the Shopko Hometown store.
In 2015, the company opened 53 stores. And year-to-date, it opened an additional 12. Chief executive officer Peter McMahon told WWD the target for 2016 is about 30 stores, “and we may go higher,†he said. The company operates 363 stores in 24 states, which includes 131 Shopko stores, five Shopko Express Rx stores, five Shopko Pharmacy locations and 222 Shopko Hometown stores.
McMahon said the rural population “is grossly underserved by retailers, so we’re eager to bring Shopko Hometown to more communities.â€
“We’ve received overwhelmingly positive feedback from customers in our current hometown communities who tell us they appreciate the improved shopping experience and access to a broader, differentiated selection of merchandise, including products and brands previously not available in their community,†the ceo added.
McMahon told WWD that the company eyes markets where there are perhaps 5,000 or 6,000 residents who often travel 30 or more miles to shop. The ceo said Shopko Hometown offers them high-quality private-label and national brands, which include Puma, Adidas, Lee, Hanes, Free Country, Dickies, RealTree, NorthCrest and Nevados.
In regard to online shopping, McMahon said “we’re in the same race†as other retailers. But the ceo quickly noted that even as online is a “key strategy†for the company, physical stores and e-commerce “have to play together. You have to have both.â€
McMahon said the company has seen online sales soar more than 20 percent. “But 50 percent of our customers go to our Web site to shop for products, and then go into the store to purchase it.†The ceo said with the smaller-format Hometown stores, shoppers can have items not available in the unit delivered to the store. The company said the Hometown stores “provide a broad and dynamic offering of strong national brands and high-value private-label brands of apparel, home furnishings, toys, consumer electronics, seasonal items, groceries and lawn and garden products â€" all in an attractive, easy-to-shop store that ranges from 15,000 to 35,000 square feet.â€
The ceo said today’s consumers have experienced a shift due to the Great Recession â€" “especially Millennials.â€
“I think she [the customer] has learned to be more frugal, and even though the economy has improved for the better, she remains frugal,†McMahon said. “There’s no need for her to change.â€
Seems like a lot of this sounds like it would have been a good strategy for Ames about 15 years ago (I particularly think of the many locations they had in Northern NY where there is very little else around, but it's likely the same existed in other states they were in).
Quote from: ShopKoFan on March 18, 2016, 10:08:13 PM
McMahon said the rural population “is grossly underserved by retailers, so we’re eager to bring Shopko Hometown to more communities.â€
“We’ve received overwhelmingly positive feedback from customers in our current hometown communities who tell us they appreciate the improved shopping experience and access to a broader, differentiated selection of merchandise, including products and brands previously not available in their community,†the ceo added.
McMahon told WWD that the company eyes markets where there are perhaps 5,000 or 6,000 residents who often travel 30 or more miles to shop. The ceo said Shopko Hometown offers them high-quality private-label and national brands, which include Puma, Adidas, Lee, Hanes, Free Country, Dickies, RealTree, NorthCrest and Nevados.
In regard to online shopping, McMahon said “we’re in the same race†as other retailers. But the ceo quickly noted that even as online is a “key strategy†for the company, physical stores and e-commerce “have to play together. You have to have both.â€
McMahon said the company has seen online sales soar more than 20 percent. “But 50 percent of our customers go to our Web site to shop for products, and then go into the store to purchase it.†The ceo said with the smaller-format Hometown stores, shoppers can have items not available in the unit delivered to the store. The company said the Hometown stores “provide a broad and dynamic offering of strong national brands and high-value private-label brands of apparel, home furnishings, toys, consumer electronics, seasonal items, groceries and lawn and garden products â€" all in an attractive, easy-to-shop store that ranges from 15,000 to 35,000 square feet.â€
The ceo said today’s consumers have experienced a shift due to the Great Recession â€" “especially Millennials.â€
“I think she [the customer] has learned to be more frugal, and even though the economy has improved for the better, she remains frugal,†McMahon said. “There’s no need for her to change.â€
Clarinda Shopko cuts Chamber ribbon
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ïƒ (Clarinda) -- After months of planning and negotiations, Shopko held it's official Grand Opening at its newest store in Clarinda this morning.
Clarinda Shopko Manager Tara Umbarger says the new store, which occupies the space vacated when Alco left town, offers lots of variety.
"We are a 25K based store. We are a hometown store, so we offer a little bit of everything. We have groceries, home goods, hardware, cleaning supplies and a little bit of home improvement too. We try to offer a variety of a little bit of everything."
Umbarger says the new store employs nearly 30 people.
"Right now we have 28 employees, including myself and my assistant. And we are continuing to grow that and we are looking for new employees all the time."
Clarinda Mayor Gordon Kokenge welcomed Shopko to Clarinda prior to the official ribbon cutting. Shopko in turn donated $2,500 to the Clarinda Schools. The check was presented to High School Principal Teresa Nook and Student Body President Taylor Stansbury.
Umbarger says the store is open 7 days a week and she along with her employees are very excited to serve the community.
"I just want to thank everybody for the support in getting us here. I know that was a big thing. The Clarinda community wanted a Shopko here and they worked really hard to get it here. So we are very excited about that. We are anxious to show everybody what we have to offer."
Nearly 100 people lined up to enter the store following the ribbon cutting.
Target exit may have deterred Shopko Retail chain had plans for store in EloyQuote
Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 8:49 am
By KEVIN REAGAN Staff Writer, Casa Grande Dispatch
ELOY â€" News of Target closing its doors in Casa Grande last year reportedly spooked away a large retail chain from building a store in Eloy.
Shopko, a Wisconsin-based company with over 360 stores, was seriously considering Eloy as the site to build its first location in Arizona, according to former Arizona Access Executive Director Jim Dinkle.
The company reached out to Dinkle, who resigned from Access Arizona this year, last summer and began “active negotiations†with an Eloy property owner to construct a store on Sunshine Boulevard that would sell a variety of mixed goods including home appliances, pharmaceuticals and clothing.
The plot of land picked by Shopko was already “shovel-ready†for retail development, Dinkle added, and the city attempted to expedite the permitting process to get the project streamlined.
Then Target, which operated a location at The Promenade at Casa Grande, announced in November it would be closing that store, along with several others across the country, at the start of 2016.
Target spokeswoman Kristy Welker had stated in November the decision to close a store is typically the result of decreasing profitability over several years.
Shortly after Target made the announcement, Dinkle said Shopko decided to discontinue the project in Eloy. Target’s inability to stay open in Casa Grande created fears for Shopko, he said, that the market was not strong enough to sustain a new store.
Shopko has since switched to Springerville, a town situated near the White Mountains, to build its first Arizona store. Opening last month, the store occupied an empty building where an ALCO retail store once operated.
A Shopko spokeswoman was not able to comment on the company’s consideration of Eloy for a new store or why it ended up picking Springerville.
After merging with Pamida Stores in 2012, Shopko has focused on targeting rural communities for its new stores. At least 20 Shopko locations opened last year in mostly small towns in Texas, Minnesota and North Dakota.
The decision to not build in Eloy was disappointing to City Manager Harvey Krauss, as he thinks the city still has a healthy market for such a store.
Eloy, which currently doesn’t have a big retail store such as Wal-Mart, would have benefited from Shopko’s “hometown†store format that caters to serving small communities, Krauss added.
He said the city has prioritized recruiting big industrial companies to Eloy in recent years, but he plans to become more “aggressive†in marketing to more retail chains in the future. Retail can be tough to attract, he added, since those companies depend heavily on population numbers and future housing development.
Dinkle said he attempted to follow-up with Shopko after it withdrew plans for Eloy but did not receive a response. He does not know of any other potential business projects in Casa Grande or Eloy that have been dissuaded by Target’s closure.
Quote from: BillyGr on March 19, 2016, 06:18:22 PM
Seems like a lot of this sounds like it would have been a good strategy for Ames about 15 years ago (I particularly think of the many locations they had in Northern NY where there is very little else around, but it's likely the same existed in other states they were in).
Quote from: ShopKoFan on March 18, 2016, 10:08:13 PM
McMahon said the rural population “is grossly underserved by retailers, so we’re eager to bring Shopko Hometown to more communities.â€
“We’ve received overwhelmingly positive feedback from customers in our current hometown communities who tell us they appreciate the improved shopping experience and access to a broader, differentiated selection of merchandise, including products and brands previously not available in their community,†the ceo added.
McMahon told WWD that the company eyes markets where there are perhaps 5,000 or 6,000 residents who often travel 30 or more miles to shop. The ceo said Shopko Hometown offers them high-quality private-label and national brands, which include Puma, Adidas, Lee, Hanes, Free Country, Dickies, RealTree, NorthCrest and Nevados.
In regard to online shopping, McMahon said “we’re in the same race†as other retailers. But the ceo quickly noted that even as online is a “key strategy†for the company, physical stores and e-commerce “have to play together. You have to have both.â€
McMahon said the company has seen online sales soar more than 20 percent. “But 50 percent of our customers go to our Web site to shop for products, and then go into the store to purchase it.†The ceo said with the smaller-format Hometown stores, shoppers can have items not available in the unit delivered to the store. The company said the Hometown stores “provide a broad and dynamic offering of strong national brands and high-value private-label brands of apparel, home furnishings, toys, consumer electronics, seasonal items, groceries and lawn and garden products â€" all in an attractive, easy-to-shop store that ranges from 15,000 to 35,000 square feet.â€
The ceo said today’s consumers have experienced a shift due to the Great Recession â€" “especially Millennials.â€
“I think she [the customer] has learned to be more frugal, and even though the economy has improved for the better, she remains frugal,†McMahon said. “There’s no need for her to change.â€
I wonder if Ames would've survive if they stayed focused on smaller towns. If they did, I bet Ames would be the Northeast's Shopko. I wonder if the Ames name can be bought. That and 'Barker's' I'd love to buy the rights, too.
Quote from: JimSawhill on May 06, 2016, 02:21:09 PM
I wonder if Ames would've survive if they stayed focused on smaller towns. If they did, I bet Ames would be the Northeast's Shopko. I wonder if the Ames name can be bought.
Somebody in Sedan, Kansas now has the rights to the Ames brand name for e-commerce purposes. Instead of acquiring the lapsed trademark of a fallen retailer, why not come up with one of your own? Something more original?
Shopko outsourced Wisconsin jobs after taking money from WEDC
MADISON (WKOW) -- Another company that has received millions of dollars in tax credits from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) has since outsourced Wisconsin jobs overseas.
Since 2012, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has awarded $2 million to Specialty Retail Shops Holding Corporation, a subsidiary of Sun Capital that serves as the parent company to Shopko, which is headquartered in Green Bay. $1 million of that award was for job creation tax credits.
To date, WEDC records show Shopko has created 94 of a planned 129 new jobs since the award was originally handed out.
But a 27 News investigation found Shopko has also outsourced jobs to southeast Asia since receiving the award.
On May 6, the U.S. Department of Labor awarded Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) benefits to seven former employees whose data entry jobs were outsourced from the company's corporate headquarters to India in late 2014.
This is just the latest example of a company outsourcing Wisconsin jobs after receiving taxpayer dollars from WEDC.
In July 2012, Plexus Corp. announced it was laying off 116 workers from its Neenah facility. The USDOL ruled those employees were eligible to receive federal Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) benefits because the work they were doing was moved to an overseas location.
Plexus Corp. did not identify where it relocated those jobs to in 2012, but also has offices and interests in the United Kingdom, China, Germany, Romania, Malaysia and Thailand.
WEDC records show Plexus has created 74 out of a planned 350 new jobs to date, but has received $8.9 million in state tax credits since 2011 - $5.1 million for capital investments.
A 27 News investigation from July 2014 found that Eaton Corp. had received over $190,000 in WEDC tax credits despite laying off 163 employees at its Cooper Power Systems plant in Pewaukee in April 2013. The company moved those jobs to Mexico.
In April 2015 Eaton Corp. announced it was permanently discontinuing the manufacture of printed circuit boards at its facility in Watertown and sending that work to Mexico as well, which resulted in the elimination of 93 employees there.
Since 2012, the agency has awarded Eaton Corp. with $369,307 of a possible $1 million in job creation tax credits. During that time, Eaton has retained 154 jobs in Wisconsin while adding 23 new jobs.
And last month, 27 News found five employees of W.W. Grainger in Janesville lost their jobs when the multinational business supply corporation outsourced their work to Panama, even though the company was awarded $50,000 in WEDC tax credits. Those tax credits were ultimately revoked and WEDC has instructed Grainger to pay back the $50,000.
After Thursday's revelations about Shopko, WEDC Board member and State Representative Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) told 27 News it troubles him that the same pattern continues.
"Our goal was to put the onus on the company to make us informed when they are outsourcing jobs and I'm not clear that that's going on now," said Rep. Barca. "But I think that we do need to tighten our systems."
A WEDC spokesperson told 27 News that the current contract for Specialty Retail Stores Holding Corp. expires in October and if the company fails to meet the deliverables of their contract, including not maintaining jobs in Wisconsin, the agency will recover funds through the penalty provisions contained in the agreement.
wouldn't it have been cool if Phar-Mor was merged with Shopko like had been planned.. I could see walmart having some serious competition
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wouldn't it have been cool if Phar-Mor was merged with Shopko like had been planned.. I could see walmart having some serious competition
Having them work with Phar-Mor would have been a double-edged sword, knowing how bad Phar-Mor's reputation got after their founder, Mickey Monus, embezzled from the company for his own financial gain and to start his own basketball league.
Shopko Hometown will be opening more stores this fall, including a store in Ely, Nevada (formerly True Value Hardware/V&S Variety Store).
Shopko is holding a grand opening of its Emmetsburg, Iowa Hometown store:
http://emmetsburgnews.com/page/content.detail/id/526600/SHOPKO-Opens-Its-Doors.html?nav=5001
Here's a recent Shopko store listing:
1-180: Regular Shopko big box stores.
200-213 and 510-799: Shopko Hometown & Shopko Pharmacy stores.
501-505: Shopko Express Rx Pharmacy stores.
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The COPS episode 2918 "One Headlight", which aired Oct. 29, 2016, features a woman getting caught shoplifting jewelry (by concealing it in her shorts) from Shopko store #001 in Green Bay, Wisconsin by the GBPD.
You can watch a preview of the episode here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOWkcjsMZUA
(This COPS episode is the first to be filmed in Wisconsin)
Quote from: ShopKoFan on October 09, 2016, 01:14:31 PM
Here's a recent Shopko store listing
Are all the "opening soon" sites former Alco/Duckwall stores?
Quote from: retailisking on October 30, 2016, 04:12:42 AM
Quote from: ShopKoFan on October 09, 2016, 01:14:31 PM
Here's a recent Shopko store listing:
1-180: Regular Shopko big box stores.
200-213 and 510-799: Shopko Hometown & Shopko Pharmacy stores.
501-505: Shopko Express Rx Pharmacy stores.
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Are all the "opening soon" sites former Alco/Duckwall stores?
A majority of the stores are former ALCO locations. Some of them were built by Shopko themselves. The Ely, Nevada location is a former True Value Hardware/V&S Variety Store.
You can watch the full episode of the latest Cops episode, featuring my current hometown of Green Bay, Wisconsin on the second half here:
http://projectwatchseries.com/videos/cops-s29-e18/408653.html
In this episode, a shoplifter gets caught trying to steal some jewelry while shopping at Shopko discount department store. The GBPD and the Shopko Loss Prevention team catch her in the act. Off camera, she is sent to the police department for photos and fingerprints.
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The remodeled Shopko store in the Madison suburb of Monona, Wisconsin.
http://www.omaha.com/money/two-metro-area-shopkos-to-close-at-the-end-of/article_0edeaab1-8c7f-5d6d-adee-7e9f7a201549.html is closing one in Omaha and Council Bluffs (that opened in 2009), OKKK EVEN shopko is doing this tooooo.
Quote from: danfifepsu on November 15, 2016, 09:58:33 PM
http://www.omaha.com/money/two-metro-area-shopkos-to-close-at-the-end-of/article_0edeaab1-8c7f-5d6d-adee-7e9f7a201549.html is closing one in Omaha and Council Bluffs (that opened in 2009), OKKK EVEN shopko is doing this tooooo.
The Meridian, Idaho store is closing too. Bummer. :'(
https://boisedev.com/news/2016/11/13/shopko-to-shut-down-meridian-store
Unlike the Kmart and Sears closings, this handful of store closings will give Shopko a "black eye".
Even if a handful Shopko/Shopko Hometown locations aren't doing well financially, the other 300+ stores still are.
List of stores closing:
* Shopko Meridian - Meridian, Idaho; 1999 store prototype.
* Shopko Omaha Northwest - Omaha, Nebraska
* Shopko Council Bluffs - Council Bluffs, Iowa; 2008 store prototype.
* Shopko Hometown Hoopeston - Hoopeston, Illinois
Quote from: ShopKoFan on November 18, 2016, 04:34:09 PM
Quote from: danfifepsu on November 15, 2016, 09:58:33 PM
http://www.omaha.com/money/two-metro-area-shopkos-to-close-at-the-end-of/article_0edeaab1-8c7f-5d6d-adee-7e9f7a201549.html is closing one in Omaha and Council Bluffs (that opened in 2009), OKKK EVEN shopko is doing this tooooo.
The Meridian, Idaho store is closing too. Bummer. :'(
https://boisedev.com/news/2016/11/13/shopko-to-shut-down-meridian-store
Unlike the Kmart and Sears closings, this handful of store closings will give Shopko a "black eye".
Even if a handful Shopko/Shopko Hometown locations aren't doing well financially, the other 300+ stores still are.
List of stores closing:
* Shopko Meridian - Meridian, Idaho; 1999 store prototype.
* Shopko Omaha Northwest - Omaha, Nebraska
* Shopko Council Bluffs - Council Bluffs, Iowa; 2008 store prototype.
* Shopko Hometown Hoopeston - Hoopeston, Illinois
is shopko in trouble
Quote from: danfifepsu on November 18, 2016, 11:38:30 PM
Quote from: ShopKoFan on November 18, 2016, 04:34:09 PM
Quote from: danfifepsu on November 15, 2016, 09:58:33 PM
http://www.omaha.com/money/two-metro-area-shopkos-to-close-at-the-end-of/article_0edeaab1-8c7f-5d6d-adee-7e9f7a201549.html is closing one in Omaha and Council Bluffs (that opened in 2009), OKKK EVEN shopko is doing this tooooo.
The Meridian, Idaho store is closing too. Bummer. :'(
https://boisedev.com/news/2016/11/13/shopko-to-shut-down-meridian-store
Unlike the Kmart and Sears closings, this handful of store closings will give Shopko a "black eye".
Even if a handful Shopko/Shopko Hometown locations aren't doing well financially, the other 300+ stores still are.
List of stores closing:
* Shopko Meridian - Meridian, Idaho; 1999 store prototype.
* Shopko Omaha Northwest - Omaha, Nebraska
* Shopko Council Bluffs - Council Bluffs, Iowa; 2008 store prototype.
* Shopko Hometown Hoopeston - Hoopeston, Illinois
is shopko in trouble
Shopko is not in as much trouble as Sears or Kmart. Shopko just has to close a few under-performing stores. Shopko's performance at these four stores was sluggish.
Quote from: ShopKoFan on November 19, 2016, 11:24:16 AM
Quote from: danfifepsu on November 18, 2016, 11:38:30 PM
Quote from: ShopKoFan on November 18, 2016, 04:34:09 PM
Quote from: danfifepsu on November 15, 2016, 09:58:33 PM
http://www.omaha.com/money/two-metro-area-shopkos-to-close-at-the-end-of/article_0edeaab1-8c7f-5d6d-adee-7e9f7a201549.html is closing one in Omaha and Council Bluffs (that opened in 2009), OKKK EVEN shopko is doing this tooooo.
The Meridian, Idaho store is closing too. Bummer. :'(
https://boisedev.com/news/2016/11/13/shopko-to-shut-down-meridian-store
Unlike the Kmart and Sears closings, this handful of store closings will give Shopko a "black eye".
Even if a handful Shopko/Shopko Hometown locations aren't doing well financially, the other 300+ stores still are.
List of stores closing:
* Shopko Meridian - Meridian, Idaho; 1999 store prototype.
* Shopko Omaha Northwest - Omaha, Nebraska
* Shopko Council Bluffs - Council Bluffs, Iowa; 2008 store prototype.
* Shopko Hometown Hoopeston - Hoopeston, Illinois
is shopko in trouble
Shopko is not in as much trouble as Sears or Kmart. Shopko just has to close a few under-performing stores. Shopko's performance at these four stores was sluggish.
does that mean tehy wont expand again or pull out of markets? I feel if Kmart goes out soon I hope Shopko can buy many and grow, they have half as many stores as Kmart will reach after this round. but yet sometimes just sometimes a chain needs to go on a diet.
No one should really worry about any chain (with a fair number of stores) closing just a few like this.
If they continued to have closings every year (like a certain chain(s) have been doing), if they start closing big chunks of stores or if a chain with only 5 or 10 stores starts closing them, then there could be more of an issue.
Seems like many stores do this (probably lots that don't even get mentioned) as no matter what process they use to decide where to build stores, there is always the chance that one here & there will be badly sited or just don't catch on with the local population for whatever reason.
At least a couple of these closures can be attributed to encroachment from Walmart, which as we all know is a fierce competitor.
In general, I think most retail chains are realizing the 'big box' model simply isn't working anymore. ShopKo seems to do fine with the smaller sized stores, which require less staff and less merchandise to fill. Even Target has cut back....it's growth is small stores in more Urban areas. They only opened/in the process of opening one new 'Regular' Target in 2016. Even smaller 'big boxes' like Staples and Best Buy have reduced the size of their latest stores.
Quote from: store215 on November 19, 2016, 08:13:06 PM
In general, I think most retail chains are realizing the 'big box' model simply isn't working anymore. ShopKo seems to do fine with the smaller sized stores, which require less staff and less merchandise to fill. Even Target has cut back....it's growth is small stores in more Urban areas. They only opened/in the process of opening one new 'Regular' Target in 2016. Even smaller 'big boxes' like Staples and Best Buy have reduced the size of their latest stores.
In some parts of Shopko's region, the regular-sized big box stores are doing well while in other regions, the Hometown stores are doing great, and some big box locations close due to poor sales figures.
The Shopko stores are testing out a larger grocery and candy department (complete with milk coolers full of milk, juices, deli meats, and cheeses) in most of their big box and Hometown locations in the Green Bay area. Soon, most Shopko stores will stock beer in their grocery department.
Shopko adding beer to some stores
Barry Adams
Wisconsin State Journal
Dec 13, 2015
In an effort to create more of a one-stop shopping experience, Ashwaubenon-based retailer Shopko is adding beer to its large format stores.
The company has applied with the city of Madison for licenses to sell beer at its stores at 2201 Zeier Road and 7401 Mineral Point Road. It also notified the city of Monona last week that it planned to submit an application for the Shopko store at South Towne Mall, said Joan Andrusz, Monona’s city clerk.
information about whether Shopko has applied for a license to sell beer in Beaver Dam was not available Sunday.
Under the proposals, no coolers would be installed. Instead, room-temperature beer would be sold on pallets.
“We’re doing this because our customers have asked for it,†said Michelle Hansen, a company spokeswoman. “We’re trying to do it in as many locations as possible.â€
Shopko has 360 stores in 24 states. They include 131 large-format Shopko stores that range in size from about 80,000 to 100,000 square feet and 219 Shopko Hometown stores that are typically about 35,000 square feet and located in smaller communities like Waupun, Reedsburg and Columbus. In Wisconsin, Shopko has 51 big box stores and 24 Hometown locations.
Hansen said most Hometown stores, a concept launched in 2012, applied and received licenses to sell beer, liquor and wine when they were proposed, while most of Pamida’s 193 stores in 17 states had sold alcohol before being purchased by Shopko in 2012. The large format stores, however, will sell only beer.
“It’s just something we realized customers were looking for when they come in and do their shopping,†Hansen said.
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A revised edition of the Shopko store listing:
http://www.shopko-vendors.com/docs/Shopko_Store_Listing_112816.pdf
New Shopko pictures:
Store #001 - Green Bay, Wisconsin (Shopko Green Bay West)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/644/31874180585_f4733f63d4_c.jpg)
Store #177 - Suamico, Wisconsin (Shopko Suamico)
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5611/31874185475_ceb424100e_b.jpg)
Shopko launches grocery departmentNate Beck , USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin 6:02 a.m. CT Feb. 7, 2017
QuoteShopko recently rolled out grocery departments in about a third of its stores across the country, including in Fond du Lac and Oshkosh.
Fond du Lac’s Shopko, 616 W. Johnson St., was among 127 stores in the network to delve into groceries, adding these services last fall. Oshkosh's Shopko, 1300 S. Koeller St., launched its grocery department about a week ago.
Here, customers can pick up a host of dry goods â€" mainly, cake mixes, canned goods and the like. The Oshkosh and Fond du Lac stores also are equipped with a small cooler for frozen pizzas, though other stores have more expanded cooler sections carrying milk and other foods.
Shopko has 380 stores in 26 states and is headquartered in Green Bay.
“In our effort to deliver the ultimate convenience to our loyal customers, Shopko continues to add to its growing and diverse line of products across all of its stores,†said Greg Doran, senior vice president of Shopko Stores. “As a proud member of the communities we are privileged to serve, we are continually striving to find ways to make our customers’ lives easier, and this grocery expansion is one more means for us to achieve that objective.â€
Quote from: ShopKoFan on February 08, 2017, 02:05:09 AM
Shopko launches grocery department
Nate Beck , USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin 6:02 a.m. CT Feb. 7, 2017
QuoteShopko recently rolled out grocery departments in about a third of its stores across the country, including in Fond du Lac and Oshkosh.
Fond du Lac’s Shopko, 616 W. Johnson St., was among 127 stores in the network to delve into groceries, adding these services last fall. Oshkosh's Shopko, 1300 S. Koeller St., launched its grocery department about a week ago.
Here, customers can pick up a host of dry goods â€" mainly, cake mixes, canned goods and the like. The Oshkosh and Fond du Lac stores also are equipped with a small cooler for frozen pizzas, though other stores have more expanded cooler sections carrying milk and other foods.
Shopko has 380 stores in 26 states and is headquartered in Green Bay.
“In our effort to deliver the ultimate convenience to our loyal customers, Shopko continues to add to its growing and diverse line of products across all of its stores,†said Greg Doran, senior vice president of Shopko Stores. “As a proud member of the communities we are privileged to serve, we are continually striving to find ways to make our customers’ lives easier, and this grocery expansion is one more means for us to achieve that objective.â€
Wow...welcome to 20 years ago when every other store started it.
Quote from: store215 on February 09, 2017, 01:04:17 AM
Quote from: ShopKoFan on February 08, 2017, 02:05:09 AM
Shopko launches grocery department
Nate Beck , USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin 6:02 a.m. CT Feb. 7, 2017
QuoteShopko recently rolled out grocery departments in about a third of its stores across the country, including in Fond du Lac and Oshkosh.
Fond du Lac’s Shopko, 616 W. Johnson St., was among 127 stores in the network to delve into groceries, adding these services last fall. Oshkosh's Shopko, 1300 S. Koeller St., launched its grocery department about a week ago.
Here, customers can pick up a host of dry goods â€" mainly, cake mixes, canned goods and the like. The Oshkosh and Fond du Lac stores also are equipped with a small cooler for frozen pizzas, though other stores have more expanded cooler sections carrying milk and other foods.
Shopko has 380 stores in 26 states and is headquartered in Green Bay.
“In our effort to deliver the ultimate convenience to our loyal customers, Shopko continues to add to its growing and diverse line of products across all of its stores,†said Greg Doran, senior vice president of Shopko Stores. “As a proud member of the communities we are privileged to serve, we are continually striving to find ways to make our customers’ lives easier, and this grocery expansion is one more means for us to achieve that objective.â€
Wow...welcome to 20 years ago when every other store started it.
And Shopko Express Rx Pharmacies had groceries since their beginning in 2003, and their larger stores (80,000-100,000+ square feet) had large candy/grocery departments. They are expanding their grocery departments to include coolers and more grocery items (mostly non-perishable food items). This is quite similar to what Big Kmart included in most of their stores in the late 1990s.
Shopko's grocery departments were smaller ten years ago, limited to pet food, soda, snacks, candy and carried only a limited amount of dry goods (the department ws larger in some of their larger locations, and carried mostly candy, soda, and dry goods).
Shopko is also going to carry beer in their stores, as well.
Ok will Shopko buy the remaining SEars and Kmarts or will they fear of being another Target in Canada doing that.
Quote from: danfifepsu on February 09, 2017, 10:26:14 AM
Ok will Shopko buy the remaining SEars and Kmarts or will they fear of being another Target in Canada doing that.
I don't know if such a thing were to happen.
But I do know that unlike in Target Canada's case, the supply chain distribution would not be a problem.
Quote from: ShopKoFan on February 09, 2017, 02:30:55 PM
Quote from: danfifepsu on February 09, 2017, 10:26:14 AM
Ok will Shopko buy the remaining SEars and Kmarts or will they fear of being another Target in Canada doing that.
I don't know if such a thing were to happen.
But I do know that unlike in Target Canada's case, the supply chain distribution would not be a problem.
IT should and how iS Shopko doing better than Kmart. Kmart is just falling apart and will prob go in a year or two.
Quote from: danfifepsu on February 09, 2017, 04:34:38 PM
IT should and how iS Shopko doing better than Kmart.
Shopko has much nicer, better organized stores.
Shopko has yet to remodel their stores in areas where the stores still have the previous brown logo. The newest renovations have a white version of that logo against a green background with the name of the location placed underneath it. The store looks somewhat like a green Target, but with lots of differences.
Right now, Shopko is not opening regular big box stores. They're focused on remodeling the stores they have right now, plus they're opening new Shopko Hometown stores with the new look.
Besides the big box and Hometown Stores, Shopko also operates four drug stores under the name Shopko Express, a format designed to compete with Walgreens and CVS Pharmacy.
The former Shopko discount store in Meridian, Idaho is set to become the future home of an Albertson's supermarket.
http://www.mymeridianpress.com/news/documents-show-albertsons-interest-in-former-shopko-location/article_31d6141f-b11f-525b-8c2f-3cb0290e0878.html
Shopko is on a list of 34 retailers that might close. OMG! I hope not!
Quote from: ShopKoFan on June 04, 2017, 04:46:45 AM
Shopko is on a list of 34 retailers that might close. OMG! I hope not!
Its prob a lie.
Quote from: danfifepsu on June 04, 2017, 06:03:39 AM
Quote from: ShopKoFan on June 04, 2017, 04:46:45 AM
Shopko is on a list of 34 retailers that might close. OMG! I hope not!
Its prob a lie.
(http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/592743b2621e6c8a008b4dd6-1366/vulnerable%20store%20count.png)
http://www.businessinsider.com/retailers-at-risk-of-closing-stores-2017-5
The former Shopko store in Meridian, Idaho will become an Albertson's supermarket.
The former Shopko store in Council Bluffs, Iowa will become an At Home store.
The Shopko Hometown (former ALCO store) in Tioga, North Dakota will close due to a lack of profitability.
The Shopko Hometown (former Pamida store) in Whitehall Township, Michigan will close, also due to a lack of profitability.
The Shopko Hometown (former Pamida store) in Palmyra, Missouri closed February 10, 2018.
The Shopko store near 84th Street and Center Road in Omaha, Nebraska closed late 2017.
The Shopko store in Provo, Utah closed in late 2017.
The Shopko store in the Sugarhouse neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah closed and the land has been sold to a developer.
The former Shopko store on Shopko Drive in Madison, Wisconsin has been sold to a retail investment group.
Shopko has begun to remove any under-performing pharmacy locations from some of their stores, including Shopko Lincoln, Nebraska-Northwest:
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1812/44031298582_a1911991d8_c.jpg)
...they then started to seal it off in a Kmart-esque manner and fill the space with all kinds of random merchandise.
They also removed the pharmacy in the Dubuque, Iowa location.
https://www.retaildive.com/news/debtwire-shopko-explores-restructuring/543527
Quote from: retailisking on December 04, 2018, 11:28:56 AM
https://www.retaildive.com/news/debtwire-shopko-explores-restructuring/543527
will that be the end of ShopKO?
Quote from: danfifepsu on December 04, 2018, 02:26:34 PM
Quote from: retailisking on December 04, 2018, 11:28:56 AM
https://www.retaildive.com/news/debtwire-shopko-explores-restructuring/543527
will that be the end of ShopKO?
They better do something soon, or else Walmart, Target or Meijer will be the only discounters left in my area. I currently live in Green Bay. Shopko was born there!
Shopko is getting out of the pharmacy business
https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2018/12/11/kroger-buying-shopko-pharmacy-business/2265296002/?fbclid=IwAR0LN9rFmj0W8lIHqZpON74eJNzx7suo69RvAel-L-rpzer7Xpkk8KBwYzE
Selling the prescription files. That's the coveted thing in a pharmacy acquisition.
My grandfather was a pharmacist. He died in the 1950's.
Did not live long enough to cash-in on all of the wheeling and dealing.
My uncle's friend who is a pharmacist sold his business (files basically)
to CVS for a healthy six-figure sum, AND took a part-time job with
them filling prescriptions at $70K per year.
Nice work if you can get it.
I wonder what will happen to Shopko Express Rx, the free-standing pharmacy stores that were designed to compete with Walgreens and CVS...
I hate it when one retailer steals another's thunder!
Hy-Vee is taking over a number of Shopko pharmacy files
http://www.startribune.com/hy-vee-acquires-some-shopko-pharmacies-in-minnesota-nearby-states/502791032
Shopko is BANKRUPT AND CLOSING THESE STORES:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shopko-filing-for-bankruptcy-green-bay-wisconsin-based-retail-chain-closing-more-than-100-stores/
They're liquidating the first location, located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It will close in April 2019. I can't blame them for wanting to close that location. It was built in 1962, and now it is starting to show its age. It is run-down, there's traces amounts of asbestos in the vacant supermarket attached to the building.
I'm now in the same boat as anyone on this forum who lost Ames, Zayre, Bradlees or Caldor.
Luckily, while the chain is busy reorganizing during their Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection proceedings to become a stronger retailer, I still have four other Shopko locations in my area to visit, including a large Shopko store attached to a shopping mall located across from Shopko corporate headquarters and not too far from Lambeau Field.
Shopko's very first store, 1962.
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The store had a liquor store appended to the bottom left corner. The Sure Way (later Jubilee Foods) supermarket took up the other half of the building.
Quote from: ShopKoFan on January 24, 2019, 07:06:38 PM
Shopko's very first store, 1962.
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The store had a liquor store appended to the bottom left corner. The Sure Way (later Jubilee Foods) supermarket took up the other half of the building.
I saw on Google maps what the building looks like now, and it appears very different (L-shaped). Where was the supermarket located? I can't figure it out.
Quote from: standa on January 25, 2019, 07:06:29 PM
Quote from: ShopKoFan on January 24, 2019, 07:06:38 PM
Shopko's very first store, 1962.
(https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50196234_2015840642046539_1657904011010899968_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=c745930e7fcbed8ab365e4951d7eaa11&oe=5CFB1655)
The store had a liquor store appended to the bottom left corner. The Sure Way (later Jubilee Foods) supermarket took up the other half of the building.
I saw on Google maps what the building looks like now, and it appears very different (L-shaped). Where was the supermarket located? I can't figure it out.
On the right side of this map:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/269/31827215890_e4be30c1b9_b.jpg)
The papered-up automatic doorways in this photo on the right side once lead to Sure Way (which later became Jubilee Foods):
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1786/41500190620_ec0d3d4312_b.jpg)
Other auction winners include CVS and Rite Aid
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2019/01/27/walgreens-cvs-and-rite-aid-among-winners-at-shopko-pharmacy-auction/#7218b8591524
Another one bites the dust!
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/money/2019/03/18/shopko-store-closings-bankrupty-plan-now-calls-all-stores-close/3203147002/
Goodbye to a good buy: former ShopKo spokesperson Karen McDiarmid looks back at her career from 1976 to 1996:
https://www.wbay.com/content/news/Goodbye-to-a-good-buy-Shopko-Lady-looks-back--507532271.html?cid=facebook_WBAY_TV-2
In a few days, the Shopko, Shopko Hometown and Shopko Express stores will be joining the likes of Ames, Bradlees, Zayre and Caldor as defunct stores. Shopko's Optical Centers will soon operate out of smaller locations immediately following their parent company's shutdown. With Shopko gone, that leaves Kohl's, Menards, Stein Garden & Home, Kwik Trip/Kwik Star, Fleet Farm and Blain's Farm & Fleet as the only Wisconsin-based retailers left...
does that mean when all Shopko stores permanently close the optical is going to remain open?
Quote from: a_person_96 on April 20, 2019, 08:54:25 PM
does that mean when all Shopko stores permanently close the optical is going to remain open?
Yes:
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/money/2019/04/18/shopko-bankruptcy-5-things-consumers-should-know-optical-sale/3497805002/
...and here's one of those locations:
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Shopko just closed their first store for one final time today in Green Bay, just as liquidation of the entire chain continues. The entire chain closes this summer.
While the rest of the Shopko chain goes under, two smaller parts of Shopko will survive:
* Shopko Optical
* FastCare Clinic
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/money/2019/06/23/shopko-bankruptcy-shopper-search-deals-companys-last-day/1352370001/
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Shopko's last day: Stores shut down amidst empty shelves, sadnessJeff Bollier, Sarah Razner, Megan Stringer, Lydia Slattery and Caitlin Shuda, Green Bay Press-Gazette Published 11:11 a.m. CT June 23, 2019 | Updated 8:30 p.m. CT June 23, 2019
QuoteGREEN BAY - Shoppers flooded to Wisconsin's remaining Shopko stores Sunday, looking for deals and reminiscing about what had once been a major retailer in their communities.
Fifty-seven years after pharmacist James Ruben and a group of investors opened a $1 million department store on Green Bay's Military Avenue, the company's 11 remaining Wisconsin stores opened the for the last time at 9 a.m. Sunday morning.
Under overcast skies, shoppers began forming lines outside the Fond du Lac store's entrance more than a half an hour before opening, the only brightness coming from the yellow signs that read "last day."
Customers came slow at first, taking carts and leaning against them while they counted down. As the clock edged closer to the final opening of the doors at 9 a.m., however, cars came in packs and lines stretched past both entrances in a scene that reminded shoppers of Black Friday.
Jodi Burant was on her way back to Stevens Point when she decided to stop at the Fond du Lac store and see what she could find. A lifetime Shopko shopper, Burant liked the chain because it reminded her of Walmart, prior to its change into a superstore.
As she waited to get inside the store, a cart at the ready, she hoped to possibly find jeans, Fourth of July decor or, if she was very lucky, a grill.
"You just have to take the chance," she said.
When doors opened, more than 30 customers rushed through the doors. Almost immediately, Burant found the decorations she was seeking, while others pushed down aisles, picking up clothing, dishware, blankets and whatever was left of the Wisconsin department store.
Many of the once full shelving and aisles were nearly bare, others were stocked with a mishmash of items. Yellow tape cordoned off some areas of the store, creating a maze-like feel. Only a few chairs, a desk and a coffee table remained in the furniture department. In some places, discarded items sat on the floor, while employees tried to clean and organize as best they could.
Ginger and Patrick Schommer, of Fond du Lac, came to the store for years to shop its variety of items, and brands that could not be found anywhere else, said Ginger Schommer. Throughout their time, they enjoyed the in-store experience.
"There's a lot of people who like to go to a store and look around, and not just online," she said.
Tammy Miller reiterated that sentiment, stating it was a place where she could come and actually try on items. Although not a frequent Shopko shopper, she came for the sales, as the prices, she believed, were too high from the start, she said. On Sunday, she continued to look for good deals but was taking her time doing so, picking up items and considering them as she went.
"I'm not going to race for them," she said as others rushed about.
In the midst of the shopping frenzy, there was a feeling of sadness. Jerrae DeLap, of Fond du Lac, had gone to the store since it opened and in the 1980s. It was where she purchased clothing for her children. After her children were grown, she returned for its products and garden center and came to know employees by name.
Standing beside some of the last racks of clothing, she said she was going to miss the store as it took another shopping option from the city that has already lost many in recent years. She now will turn to Target, or out-of-town and online shopping to fill the void.
"I'm watching Fond du Lac lose these wonderful stores, and it's making me very sad. It's scary to find out all these stores are closing," she said.
One of the employees who shoppers said goodbye to was Connie Burnet. An employee of Shopko for 20 years, Burnet described the closure as a "death in the family."
"It feels like a bad dream you just can't wake up from," she said. "Today, it will all be over."
One of the aspects she enjoyed most about the job was the people â€" both those she worked with and those who shopped there. During the last week, her frequent customers shopped in to say goodbye, although she hopes it's not the end to see them again wherever she ends up.
She doesn't know where she will work next, but she may go back to school to find a career in computers, she said.
In her sadness, she feels anger, as well, toward Sun Capital Partners, the company's private equity owner.
"They did a lot of damage for a lot of good working people," she said.
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QuoteA long decline
The Ashwaubenon-based company succumbed after years of financial trouble. Strategies to turn the company around floundered even as its private equity owner, Sun Capital Partners, continued to collect dividends and consulting.
Shopko found itself beset on all sides by competitors just as shopper expectations began to evolve. It proved unable to keep up.
And so the company sought bankruptcy protection from creditors in Nebraska on Jan. 16, declaring it had less than $1 billion in assets and more than $1 billion in debt.
There was originally hope, though: Shopko executives laid out a plan to close unprofitable stores, exit the pharmacy business and find a buyer to keep the retailer going. When no buyer emerged, Shopko announced in March it would close all stores, sell its optical business and wind-down, putting about 15,000 employees out of work.
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QuoteIn Wausau, a frenzy amidst largely empty shelves
At the Wausau Shopko store on 18th Avenue, the empty shelves and dollar deals were a familiar sight for Kelly Dehnel. The morning of the store's final day was her fifth time there this week hunting for bargains.
The discounts have grown better since the retailer first started winding down, she said. On Sunday she filled her cart with a $10 dutch oven, $1 T-shirts and other clothing, rugs, bedding, sandals and more.
Dehnel, who owns a dairy farm off County K northwest of Wausau, said the $1 T-shirts will be great to throw on and wear around the farm.
She used to stop in at Shopko regularly, once every couple of weeks. Now that it's closing, it's "just another hole in Wausau," she said. She called Shopko the best discount retail option on her side of town. After its closure, she'll have to head to the stores near Rib Mountain instead.
When Shopko empties out its shelves for good and the store goes dark, Dehnel hopes to see a similar retailer take over the space.
Melissa Eades suspects that she'll be spending more time shopping in Rib Mountain now, too, at Walmart or Kohl's. Much like the other shoppers scattered around the emptying aisles on Sunday, Eades will miss Shopko's presence in Wausau.
Unlike Dehnel, Eades hadn't been to any of the sales at Shopko since the retailer announced it would be winding down. So she knew she had to be there on the final day.
"I'm surprised by the sheer chaos," she said, as her daughter ran around with a new hair bow to take home.
That chaos remained mostly in the front section of the store where clothing and some shoes were displayed. Employees worked to contain everything and push merchandise to the front as they stacked leftover chocolate bunnies and ceramic mugs.
As some shoppers explored the back of the store, the frenzy was replaced by barren shelves amid pink flyers advertising 90% off. Roaming the aisles they passed entire deserted sections: home decor, sporting goods, luggage, school and office, pet supplies.
Back in the fevered clothing sections, the brown-red carpet was littered with the leftovers of shoppers on the trail of a good bargain. Hangers, sale tags, flakes of trash and even some orange slime speckled the ground.
Checkout lines wound around the dollar sections where people continued to browse, hearing whispers from others who had already been in line for an hour and a half.
Dehnel sighed at the thought of another retailer closing its doors in Wausau.
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QuoteOshkosh employees say good bye to the store
Eric Rathsack worked at 7 different Shopko locations over 32 years. He worked his way up to manager of the Oshkosh store. On Sunday he was running around the store trying to help customers and staff through crowds of people.
“I’m just overall sad,†Rathsack said about the store closing. “I going to miss the customers. I’m going to miss the teammates.â€
Only the front third of the store had merchandise on the shelves. They were sporadically stocked with with $5 lawn decorations and mugs. Empty aisles were marked off with caution tape. People strolled through the aisles looking for a hidden deal that hadn't been taken yet.
Trucks and trailers lined the front of the store as people carried out actual shelves.
Two weeks ago the store had been completely stocked with merchandise, Rathsack said. The liquidation process was hectic as people came to get the best deals, he said.
Rathsack expects that everything in the store will be gone by the end of the day.
While Shopko closed to the public at 6 p.m. Sunday, Rathsack will work through Tuesday cleaning the building. He’ll also have to build a wall around the Shopko Optical, which will stay open at 1300 S. Koeller St. for six weeks before it moves to 1210 S. Koeller St., he said.
Shopko employee Micah Kopecky said the past two weeks have been surreal.
Kopecky, 18, came to Shopko throughout his entire life with his family, and he didn’t see any changes until customers started buying everything during the liquidation sale. He’s sad to see the store close, but he’s looking to the future as he plans to head to college in Minnesota this fall.
Kopecky plans to volunteer his time cleaning up the store with Rathsack. The company won’t pay more than two employees in addition to Rathsack to clean the store, but he knows it will be a lot of work.
Gail Nooyen, a loyal Shopko customer, did one last walk through the store Sunday.
“I love this store. It’s my store,†Nooyen said.
Before she was a customer, Nooyen was a Shopko employee for 18 years. She was hired when the Oshkosh location opened in 1984.
She was chatting with employees as she shopped for mugs. Nooyen loves the employees and is sad to see the store close. She won’t shop at Target or Walmart since Shopko was her place.
As the saying goes, when one door closes, another opens. However, in this case that saying is literal as Shopko prepares to shut down forever, a Home Goods store opened just a few stores down that was just as packed as Shopko.
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QuoteAppleton store led company in sales
In Appleton, bargain hunters streamed in and out of the Shopko store on Northland Avenue all day Sunday, in what employees said felt a lot like Black Friday.
But by early afternoon Sunday, shoppers found little left to buy.
Two-thirds of the store was empty and taped off with yellow caution tape. Shelves were bare.
Random items were consolidated at the front of the store â€" 15 cent plastic Easter pails, eggs and grass; size 5XL floral shorts; $2.49 satchel handbags; makeup in dark colors like java and mocha, Fourth of July placemats and 2019 calendars for 40 cents.
Someone must have wanted the rack of Clay Matthews and Randall Cobb jerseys because they were gone, perhaps proving that if it’s cheap enough and has a Packers connection, it will sell.
Kids clothes were gone, as were the bedspreads, smiley face beach towels and lamps, which were there just a week ago.
Shopper Jim Winsted of Appleton came in Sunday for a lamp for his daughter. “I should have bought it when I saw it a week ago,†he said. “They really did sell everything. It’s pretty cleared out.â€
Appleton’s Shopko was the last branch standing in the Fox Cities, closing after sister branches in Kimberly, Neenah and Menasha were already gone.
Many regulars came in one last time even if they didn’t see anything to buy. They word each used to express the day was “sad.â€
“I had to say my goodbyes,†said longtime shopper Jean Harper from Appleton who knew employees by name.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about this store closing. It’s not a surprise with everyone going to the net. I’m not a net shopper, so I don’t know where I’m going to go,†she said. “I bought everything here. Prescriptions, purses, clothes, household items. Things for my grandkids. I have to find another store, but I’m not happy with Meijer and I’m not happy with Walmart.â€
Appleton’s Shopko was the 15th built in the chain and operated for just a few years shy of half a century.
“We were No. 1 in total volume when you combine optical, pharmacy and the main store,†said store manager Mark Grasmick.
Those who were working said they were there because they wanted to stay to the end.
Many had other jobs lined up, and some had even been recruited by other companies right at the registers.
“I still have my core group,†said Grasmick. “Everyone put their hearts and souls into what they do. There’s a lot of pride that kept them here to the end. “
Employee Pam Bartell, who wore a shirt that read “Shopko Strong until the very end,†helped close Menasha, then Kimberly and now Appleton. Her eyes grew red and teary when talking about her employer for 40 years.
“I feel there’s nothing I can do to be able to keep the store open,†she said. “It’s like a death. You have to mourn it, when you lose a job you absolutely love."
“I did my crying when the pharmacy ended,†said pharmacy employee Kelly Voss, who came back to help close the main store. “They said ‘can you help?’ and I said, ‘Sure. It’s my family.’â€
Employees planned to gather for a group picture after the store closed late Sunday afternoon.
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QuoteWisconsin Rapids: ‘Shopko is not a building, it’s the people.’
Dozens of people walked the carpeted and tiled floor of Shopko at noon Sunday in Wisconsin Rapids. They shopped quietly as the sound of cart and clothing rack wheels filled the silence. Soft music echoed in the back of the store behind caution tape that noted there was nothing left for customers beyond its barrier. A lone vacuum hummed in the back, and the self-check-outs’ computerized voices reminded the last-day customers to take their bags and receipts before they left. A certain finality hovered in the air.
Manager Curt Brozik said he did everything he could to ease the sadness and boost the morale of his employees. They took a group photo in front of the store Sunday morning, reiterating and memorializing the family feel that has been cultivated over the decades within the employees.
“Shopko is not a building, it’s the people,†Brozik said. “Shopko will never die as long as these people are around. We will always be family.â€
Brozik said he tried to make a bad situation as tolerable as possible for that family for the last few months. They’ve worked with other businesses in the area to try to find jobs for Shopko employees once the store closed. Many of those businesses were willing to hold off on training their new employees until after the Shopko closure was final.
As shoppers strolled along the store looking at the remains of inventory, some commented on the sadness and finality of the day. One shopper told a USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin reporter he and his wife were thinking of moving because of the various store closures, including Shopko.
Ramiro Ysquierdo, 60, said he was sad to see Shopko close in Wisconsin Rapids.
“It’s one less place I have to compare prices at,†Ysquierdo said. “I’m sad to see it go. It’s a nice store, and I’m a long-time shopper.â€
He said he’ll be restricted to shopping at Walmart for what he needs, now.
While the store closure will leave many people like Ysquierdo with limited shopping options, there’s also the matter of filling an empty building.
Brozik said Shopko’s optical department will remain open in the Shopko building at 1100 E. Riverview Expressway until the new owners find a place to continue operating the business.
Mellissa Shilts, 28, said that was her biggest worry. She said she and her family travel a lot to shop, so the store’s closure wouldn’t affect her a lot, but she wants to see something happen quickly with the building.
“It’s crazy it’s gone,†Shilts said, and hopes the building will be filled again soon.
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QuoteGreen Bay loses two stores
Melissa Salm just wanted to do something nice for the employees at her neighborhood Shopko. She made her fourth visit of the weekend to the East Town Mall Sunday afternoon not to shop, but to deliver cookies, bottled water and McDonald's gift cards for the employees.
"They've been working their butts (Saturday and Sunday)," Salm said. "It's really sad. it's the end of an era."
Vicky, the East Town Shopko store manager who asked her last name not be used, accepted the gifts and gave Salm a big hug and thank you. She teared up as she talked about the dedication the store employees showed to stay around until the last day. She also said the community has shown great support for the staff.
"They wanted to work open to close. It's a remarkable, remarkable staff here," the store manager said. "We're like family here. The community has been unbelievable, too."
The East Town store was busy Sunday afternoon as fixtures sold for $1 each and the last boxes of cosmetics, seasonal holiday merchandise, Green Bay Packers t-shirts and Shopko store office supplies went up for sale. Even rolls of red and yellow "clearance" stickers could be bought for 90 percent off.
Kelly Trickey, of Green Bay, and her daughter, Ali, who attends the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, both said they're sad to see their Shopko stores close. Ali Trickey said Shopko was the only general merchandise store in River Falls because of square footage restrictions in that community.
"You have to drive eight miles to get to Walmart or Target in Hudson," Ali Trickey said. "We just gained a Culver's, so we're gaining in food, but not gaining anything else."
Kelly recalled shopping in the original east side Shopkoâ€"the building's now home to a fitness center on Main Street.
"It's sad to see these go by the wayside," Kelly Trickey said. "If all these people were shopping at Shopko all along, it'd still be here."
The Green Bay area lost stores in De Pere, Howard, Bellevue and Green Bay in the last few months. The region's last two stores, at Bay Park Square and East Town Mall, closed Sunday.
The Bay Park Square location didn't even make it to closing time Sunday. Sheldon Svenson, of Pulaski, was its last customer. Svenson bought the remaining inventoryâ€"bags of Easter basket grass, Easter eggs, electronics, some clothes and store fixtures.
Svenson arranged with Gordon Brothers, Shopko's store liquidator, to buyeverything left in the store, leaving it empty before 3 p.m. Sunday. Shoppers still showed up, only to be turned away. Svenson was there all day. He said it was a tough day to watch, but that the opportunity to pick up the inventory has him excited.
"I'm pretty excited," Svenson said. "It opens up an opportunity for me to sell stuff and help them get the store closed. The employees stayed enthusiastic all day and did well with the customers."
Svenson intends to inventory his haul from Shopko and launch an online store.
"They did a very good job selling most of the inventory," Svenson said. "A lot of the employees were probably sad to see it go. A lot would have liked to stay rather than have to find new jobs."
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QuoteBankruptcy case continues
Sunday was Shopko's last day in business, but there are still some significant issues left to watch as the bankruptcy case continues in federal court in Nebraska.
* Employee support fund: Almost 700 current and former employees signed a letter to Sun Capital Partners executives requesting Shopko's private-equity owners establish a fund for employees affected by the bankruptcy.
* Optical transition: Shopko Optical will keep the name alive under new owner Monarch Alternative Capital LP. The firm has a busy summer and fall ahead moving about 80 optical centers out of the big boxes and into stand-alone storefronts.
* Wind down the estate: The U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge has approved the wind-down plan and final budget. Now, the company must execute it.
* McKesson legal claims: Shopko's main pharmaceutical supplier thinks Shopko executives and consultants made false statements to the company in order to keep Shopko pharmacies stocked with medications as long as possible.
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As of yesterday, Shopko is now officially declared a defunct department store.
Quote from: ShopKoFan on June 24, 2019, 09:10:16 PM
As of yesterday, Shopko is now officially declared a defunct department store.
I wonder if it grew to fast in the last few years...they bought Alco, so I guess they did what Ames did...buying Department Stores and didn't look at the bottom line. Grow slowly is my model...
Quote from: JimSawhill on July 07, 2019, 10:16:21 AM
Quote from: ShopKoFan on June 24, 2019, 09:10:16 PM
As of yesterday, Shopko is now officially declared a defunct department store.
I wonder if it grew to fast in the last few years...they bought Alco, so I guess they did what Ames did...buying Department Stores and didn't look at the bottom line. Grow slowly is my model...
I could name a few reasons why they went out of business:
Sun Capital failed to find a buyer for Shopko.
Their patient records were sold to other pharmacies, such as Walgreens, CVS, Hy-Vee and Kroger.
Tough market competition from the likes of Walmart, Target and Meijer.
Here are some shopko videos i got on vhs from the former distribution center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIXeLgUgi5o&t=550s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE_EVUf-v1c&t=14s
Here is a map published by shopko for all the shopko locations in 2004
https://www.flickr.com/photos/182021376@N07/48634537182/in/dateposted-public/
Does anyone know when shopko stopped using the slogan Shopko saves
you money everyday
The death of ShopKo happened because Wall Street profiteers drained them financially, to the point that the stores could not pay back their pharmaceutical suppliers, just like how Toys "R" Us was drained financially one year prior with some of their suppliers (including Crayola) not being paid back by the company because the profiteers gutted them...
The ShopKo Optical division was sold off to Monarch Capital, becoming a separate bricks-and-mortar retailer entirely, selling eyeglasses and lenses...
Vintage Shopko labelscar:
https://retail247.blogspot.com/2022/11/quick-look-former-shopko-escanaba-mi.html