WHY DO SOME SUPERMARKETS NOT CREATE CONVENIENCE ZONES?
While most major supermarkets do create convenience zones, the Department may for one or more of the following reasons, not recognize some supermarkets as convenience zones based on PRC 14526.5 • The supermarket was not identified in Progressive Grocer Marketing Guidebook. • The Department furnishes a form “Declaration of Less than Two-Million Gross Annual Sales” to an owner, manager or corporate entity. If the owner, manager, or corporate entity can demonstrate an annual gross sales average of less than $2 million, that convenience zone may be de-activated. • Supermarket missed cut-off date in the fall of a given year for activation in January. Typically, such supermarkets are activated as convenience zones the following January. WHAT HAPPENS IF THE SUPERMARKET THAT CREATES A CONVENIENCE ZONE CLOSES, AND CAN A DE-ACTIVATED CONVENIENCE ZONE BECOME RE-ACTIVATED ? The Department will de-activate a convenience zone if the supermarket creating the convenience zone closes. The Department ma
