Shopko

[jmcnamara96]

Hey ShopKoFan do you have any pictures of the zayre venture shopko

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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.

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Music I usually hear at Shopko:

"Kiss 'n Tell" by Bryan Ferry - 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
"These Dreams" by Heart - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CcLml7ikn8
"The Reason" by Hoobastank - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGs8vtjDxxY
"Alone" by The Bee Gees - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FuKWoczxyA
"Stars" by Simply Red - 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
"That's All" by Genesis - 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
"Your Wildest Dreams" by The Moody Blues - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddmJzwm6NYI
"If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" by Sting - 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

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

ShopKo ads from November 1991. The first time we see this logo which was discontinued in 2007:


A ShopKo ad featuring Nintendo Entertainment System games.


ShopKo Music & Movies ad featuring audiotapes and videocassettes:


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:


Look for more pictures at my ShopKo Pool.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/820865@N25/pool/

[Marc82]

It looks like they stole the shopping carts from Linens & Things. I remember they had tan colored carts like that.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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.

[Zayre88]

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

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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
"Everything's gone right through me!"

"Gown":
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.

[CTAmeshopper]

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.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

Store #116 - Sheboygan, Wisconsin

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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:





Twin Valu holiday commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oULOUWVhdiM

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

ShopKo grand opening sale, Spokane, Washington, 1987:

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The Store Locator at Shopko.com:
http://www.shopko.com/locator

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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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[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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.

[standa]

Very good photos.  Shopko looks like a cross between Walmart and Kohl's.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

Shopko Hometown - Oconto, Wisconsin
(formerly Pamida)





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z4RY2bZW-Q

[videogamer75]

A ShopKo ad featuring Nintendo Entertainment System games.

That's a pretty good deal!

[ynkeesfn82]

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.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

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

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

Pictures of Shopko Hometown in Kewaunee, WI:




(BTW, Kewaunee is pronounced "key-WAH-nee")

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Shopko's official Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/shopko

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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.

[Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill)]

A Tour of Shopko store #001 (Green Bay, Wisconsin) in Photographs:



Front exterior shots:


Back exterior shots:


Interior shots:


(Comments and discussions are welcome.)