S888Wheel said:

They don't pay union wages, do they. And they only sell packaged
goods, which require less labor to display. No meat to cut, no produce
to uncrate and place in neat piles.

No, they sell fresh produce and many things that you can't get at the major
supermarkets.

The ones in Maryland don't sell fresh produce. Except for *packaged*
foods. Nor do they have anything not in the supermarkets. They have
more choices of some stuff, particularly frozen fish.

I guess they tailored the east coast stores to what they thought would
sell here.