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jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 07:04 PM Oct 2013

How not to design a grocery ad

We got a preprint from IGA to insert in a weekly paper.

On the right side: free 46 ounce bottle Crisco Oil, all varieties, price up to $2.99, if you buy flour, white and brown sugars and chocolate chips at the same time.

On the left side: 46 ounce bottle Crisco Oil, all varieties, price $3.49.

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How not to design a grocery ad (Original Post) jmowreader Oct 2013 OP
WOW Goalie49009 Oct 2013 #1
They still have IGA's? Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #2
In small towns, they do jmowreader Oct 2013 #4
Was that store in eastern Kentucky? In_The_Wind Oct 2013 #3
This one was in Idaho. He's doing REALLY well. jmowreader Oct 2013 #5

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
2. They still have IGA's?
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 04:20 AM
Oct 2013

There were two of them in my hometown at one time (one was next to the original Wal-Mart Discount City store). One kind of fell on hard times when Wal-Mart moved to a different location, the other hung on for a couple of decades after that before giving up the ghost. I had no idea they were still around.

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
4. In small towns, they do
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 03:10 PM
Oct 2013

IGA is to grocery what Ace is to hardware: a buying alliance for independently-owned stores. They do okay in places you can't see from Bentonville, like Florence, Mont., or Grandview, Wash.

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
3. Was that store in eastern Kentucky?
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 07:06 AM
Oct 2013

I found Meta there. Twelve miles north of Pikeville.

I also shopped in an IGA near the KY Dam on the western end of the srate.

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