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Thursday, March 22, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Box stores aid economizers
By JUDY WOODBURN
Staff Reporter
Jim Wallace and Jeff Gerlan are roommates who bag their own groceries and do without bingo games or sweepstakes they, say, it helps them save food dollars.
Wallace, Great Bend junior, and gereman, Gerland, Tarown, M., freshman, shop at Way-Lo Warehouse Foods, 846 New Conventional supermarkets.
Warehouse stores such as Way-Lo, called box stores, can offer lower prices by eliminating frills which are baggers and heavy equipment that slows down on building and maintenance costs.
Gerlieman said low meat prices had attracted them to the box store.
"We walked in and saw the steaks and that was it." he said.
Chuck Waymire, owner of Way-Lo, said yesterday that box stores were already popular in California and New York and were rapidly gaining acceptance in Kansas.
"It's like self-service gas stations," he said. "More and more people are pumping their own gas to save a few cents, and more and more box stores as a good way to cut food bills."
ALBURG SAID the store also would introduce a computerized checkout system that would eliminate the need to price individual items, thereby cutting down the cost.
Alburg said other Food 4 Less stores in Kansas operated by Failley's had cut building costs by leaving walls unpainted or by eliminating finished ceilings.
the elimination of some sizes of merchandise, he said.
"The buildings just aren't as fancy," he said.
Jack Leatherman, manager of the Lawrence Falley's, said that the new store would be to cater to students especially, but that future students would be more attractive to students.
WAYMEY SAID that warehouse stores also saved customers money by being able to take advantage of manufacturers' special price discounts, or allowances more often.
Because the stores might carry only one name brand of each product at a time, Waymire said they could switch brands and buy the cheapest one at the time.
WAY-LO IS the only commercial warehouse store in the Lawrence. Until last August, Way-Lo had been a conventional market, known as Waynire's Butcher Block.
"Except for about 10 years each year, we'll be able to host the whole building with the existing equipment."
"The average shopper doesn't care what kind of corn he's getting, as long as it is plain."
Other changes are to include the discontinuation of the carry-out service and
But another supermarket in Lawrence soon will join the ranks of warehouse stores. Ed Alburg, regional manager of Falley's Discount Foods, said Falley's store at 2525 North Broadway was restored and would be converted to a Food 4 less store sometime between June and August.
Alburg, said the store would undergo several changes to make price cuts possible. One, he said, would be the introduction of a special heating system that used the heat produced as a by-product of the store's refrigeration system.
He also said box stores eliminated most of their advertising costs by depending on the online presence.
temporary, Chuck Sprinkle, vice president of Dillon Stores Company in Hutchinson, said although the warehouse store idea was popular, it would eventually decline in popularity.
But officials of some area supermarket chains think the box store concept is only
SPRINKLE SAID he thought shopers at box stores might sacrifice some quality, variety and service for the lower prices. He hoped that we would be back to what they were familiar with.
Overloaded?
Students, he said, are conscientious
shoppers and do not consider only prices
that are available.
Christ Johnson, Kansas City, Kan, special student, said there was a disadvantage to being a child at the University.
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But Wallace and Gerlerman said they thought they were not sacrificing quality for low prices.
"Sometimes they'll have what I want, but it's still in an unopened carton. I can just see opening it myself and spilling it all over," he said.
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"But I don't mind going somewhere else to buy those things," she said. "It's worth it to do that."
But Valentine said box stores would not necessarily attract a larger proportion of customers.
Jennie Hainn, Overland Park senior, said she had trouble finding some items at Way- Lo that she used regularly, such as dietary foods.
Mike Valentine, manager of the Safeway store at 190 W. 23rd St., said customers both love and need the quantity. They do not have the employees to maintain a wide selection of meats and poultry.
"Some students don't care where they go as long as it's close," he said.
He said students were not large volume shoppers, but tended to buy small quantities frequently. For that reason, he said, students attracted to stores close to their homes.
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Johnson said he would like to shop at a box store more often but he lived too far away
"Basically, she shop for one," he said, "and the sheer convenience of going somewhere else."
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