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Once Irvine got the two Ranch 99 markets within 10 minutes of each other, it has never looked back. Ranch 99 is very conservative, so unless they have the numbers to sustain two stores, they would not have made their move. With the new Balboa store and them keeping the old Clairemont Mesa store open, the floodgate now opens…[/quote]
There’s a reason why they did this. Someone in my circle knows the people that run the place in San Diego.
The two stores exist and the do sort of cannibalize each other’s sales. The reason why they did this was if they didn’t there was going to be someone else that was going to do it (IE a korean supermarket). And then that would have impacted their sales. So, the thought was to have two locations to minimize another competitor.[/quote]
A bit too late, they already lost a big chunk of 4S/RB/SR business to H-Mart when they took over the Ralphs over at east end of Mira Mesa.
