{"id":12946,"date":"2017-06-14T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12946"},"modified":"2017-06-14T00:03:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T04:03:16","slug":"save-a-lot-817-saint-andrews-road-22-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12946","title":{"rendered":"Save a Lot, 817 Saint Andrews Road: 22 June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420536.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420536_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420536_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420536_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420534.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420534_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420534_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420534_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420535.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420535_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420535_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420535_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420538.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420538_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420538_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420538_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420539.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420539_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420539_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420539_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420540_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420540_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420540_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I'll admit that when this came up in <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=12360\">Have Your Say<\/a>, I couldn't even remember that there was a <i>Save a Lot<\/i> on Saint Andrews Road.  In point of fact it hasn't been there that long, replacing the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5686\">Kroger<\/a> some time in 2015.  That seems curious to me, as though they badly misread the market or something changed.  The <i>KJ's<\/i> down the road might be direct competition, but that was planned before this store went in, and despite the <i>Bi-Lo<\/i> to <i>Harvey's<\/i> change at the top of the hill, I still don't see that location as direct competition to a discounter like <i>Sav a Lot<\/i>.  Commenter Andrew references the new <i>Wal Mart Neighboorhood Market<\/i>, but that seems a good way from here..<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, it appears the store will close on 22 June.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Sidney).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'll admit that when this came up in Have Your Say, I couldn't even remember that there was a Save a Lot on Saint Andrews Road. In point of fact it hasn't been there that long, replacing the Kroger some time in 2015. That seems curious to me, as though they badly misread the market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1687,143,177,4],"class_list":["post-12946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-817-saint-andrews-road","tag-groceries","tag-saint-andrews-road","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}