date:Jun 30, 2014
t attention, and for a store that doesnt have a future, management attention was not being put to its proper use. Closing those stores will allow us to focus attention on stores with more potential.
The strategic assessment also impacted Sobeys real estate plans, Poulin added, since after an acquisition such as Safeway, we had to design a totally new and different real estate strategy because there are stores that we acquired that obviously fitted very well in our overall portfolio and therefor