Krispy Kreme - Santo Domingo

[Bronxboy]

Is there really any other reason for a completely healthy male to visit a Mall? Let me know when you find one! I'm interested to find out my underlying "true" motives as well!:laugh:

For the doughnuts!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Criss Colon]

'ikea',is empty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It doesn't matter that many malls,stores,fast food franchises,apt.buildings go empty or not,they are built with drug money,and then used to launder more drug of the same!
Without drug money,and 'REMISAS', the DR would be HAITI111
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[PICHARDO]

It doesn't matter that many malls,stores,fast food franchises,apt.buildings go empty or not,they are built with drug money,and then used to launder more drug of the same!
Without drug money,and 'REMISAS', the DR would be HAITI111
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Boy! You do have the DR 100% figured out!

Good jobs Chris!

Sorry! I got to cut short here, my niece is getting her backpack ready for school tomorrow and I need to stuff some kilos for her scheduled delivery in the morning run! Arghhh! I also got to get the sacks of cash ready to make the deposit in the 15 bank accounts and financieras, you know! To lavar los chelitos!

I wonder if I'm going to have to hit the beach this weekend, you know to pick some "drop offs" from the coast... Nah! They might send it with the next door DNCD captain right to my garage! What was I thinking!

You the man Chris! Yup!

 

[Criss Colon]

"Spoken",Like a REAL DOMINICAN!!!!!!!

There is no school tomorrow!
The DR has a "Death Wish"!
You used to only transship the drugs,now you have developed your own drug culture!
You need to watch some TV news,not just "Novelas" from Mexico and Venezuela!
"Oh!",and read a newspaper from time-to-time!
You can even read the DR1 news.
You might learn something about your own country!
You do not change the facts about the DR,just by always disclaiming those facts!
You can't see the FOREST,for the TREES man!
Cris Colon
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[Berzin]

JD-So what happened? Is there no more Dunkin' Donuts in the DR? Did they go out of business, and do you think Krispey Kreme is headed in the same direction?

 

[windeguy]

After just returning from Cape Cod and the NY/NJ area where there is literally a Dunkin' Donuts on every corner it is hard to believe the bustling center of the Latin American universe capital of the DR cannot support even one donut shop. Things must really be super bueno.

I bet dollars to donuts they are not.

 

[mkberg]

I am from CA and was honestly excited to hear about the Krispy Kreme in the DR. I had to confirm. According to Krispy Kreme.com and an email to corporate, there is no Krispy Kreme store in the DR. However, because it is a US corp, they are subject to errors. I do hope there is indeed a Krispy Kreme in DR, as I will surely make the trip.

 

[PICHARDO]

Well, since this thread was originally about Krispy Kreme, I'm gonna yank it back to it's roots.

I stop in Krispy Kreme on weekend mornings, on the way to work. Ain't nobody enjoying donuts but me on most mornings now.

Sad to say, they are going the same route as Dunkin Donuts did. No more freshly made doughuts; now it's the norm to get a doughnut that is easily one or two days old, if not more.

One can easily tell when a product like that isn't fresh, and some of the doughnuts I've got(including this morning) had the texture of old bread. Most of us know what that's like.

Worse, they have stopped producing some of their classic doughnuts, such as the kruller and the strawberry jam filled white powder covered one. The capucchino filled doughnut ain't bad either.

I'm sure we'll hear from somebody that they are "rotating" their most popular doughnuts, because they can't offer all of them at once.

Some of us old timers here in SD will remember how popular Dunkin Donuts was when they first opened. Once they stopped selling fresh donuts, it went downhill very fast.

I hope the same isn't true for them.

The store does not keep day before donuts on the shelves, not possible! The fact is that you got used to eating donuts that were less than minutes or 2 hours out of the frying line to your mouth for far too long. This was a given as there was more demand than supply time available when the store opened and the time after that. Now as demand is more or less adjusted to a normal pace, you're eating Donuts that have been in the shelves far longer than 2 hours and possibly half a day, that compared to before, tastes like how you described...

It doesn't matter if you go early in the morning or night, as the pace of sales and production dropped significantly unlike the early times.

About rotation? Nope! They simply offered their full line on the early stages, but concentrated on the popular and fast moving ones as of late. They will cycle them as they'll offer special deals from time to time, until they get a steady demand that warrants the shelve space and shelf time to sale on a regular basis.

KK is a biz model where micromanaging on inventory and stocks is the norm rather than the exception...

 

[PICHARDO]

You'll see a lot of promotions come and go from KK...

Just like these:

 

[the gorgon]

The store does not keep day before donuts on the shelves, not possible! The fact is that you got used to eating donuts that were less than minutes or 2 hours out of the frying line to your mouth for far too long. This was a given as there was more demand than supply time available when the store opened and the time after that. Now as demand is more or less adjusted to a normal pace, you're eating Donuts that have been in the shelves far longer than 2 hours and possibly half a day, that compared to before, tastes like how you described...

It doesn't matter if you go early in the morning or night, as the pace of sales and production dropped significantly unlike the early times.

About rotation? Nope! They simply offered their full line on the early stages, but concentrated on the popular and fast moving ones as of late. They will cycle them as they'll offer special deals from time to time, until they get a steady demand that warrants the shelve space and shelf time to sale on a regular basis.

KK is a biz model where micromanaging on inventory and stocks is the norm rather than the exception...

what exactly do you mean by ?adjusted to a normal pace?? what is a normal pace? how do i know that the original pace was not normal, and that the new pace does not represent a fallback in demand?

 

[PICHARDO]

what exactly do you mean by ?adjusted to a normal pace?? what is a normal pace? how do i know that the original pace was not normal, and that the new pace does not represent a fallback in demand?

Normal pace means after all the hoopla and ballyhoo it created for their grand opening in Santo Domingo (and the DR), the demand of goods will match that of what's to be expected from a normal client base. The first days and weeks the excitement was out of the charts, even months after the effect to "newness" was present for quite a long time. Nowadays the effects are gone and the real "pace" of the store's customer base is settled, save for the occasional brisk promotions.

How I know the original pace was not "normal" and it was just a "fallback" on demand? Common sense, biz common sense, life experience, been-there-seen-that, etc...

On grand open:
First Apple store in Pudong, Shanghai

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Later:

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And that's in country where people are more than the usual for any place in the world...


That's the effect of pre and post, going to normal...


But again... If you had to ask...

 

[the gorgon]

actually, PICHARDO, there are stores which attract huge crowds at opening, because of the novelty factor. after it wears off, people stop going there, because they have been there, and done that. traffic to the store becomes virtually nonexistent. i guess that could be considered, by your analysis, to be a normal pace.

 

[PICHARDO]

Biz has been sooooooooo, but soooooooooooooooooooooooo bad at Krispy Kreme first store in SD that they decided to open a new store at Caceres corner with Palmer...

 

[NotLurking]

Bad isn't the word.

I NEVER see more than....oh.......12-13 cars at their drive up window.

And there's never more than 10 or 12 people in line inside, unless you go first thing in the morning when they open.

Yep.... bad indeed.

But I'm going to boycott them until they start making cruellers again, those funny looking light donuts with ribs.

I always go after 6pm and the place ALWAYS has people waiting on line, yap bad biz. I wish that biz be mine....hehehe I'll have all the free butt and gut enhancer err doughnuts I could handle. Do you guys always get a free doughnut when in the line? I almost always get one, nice touch.

NotLurking

 

[PICHARDO]

Bad isn't the word.


But I'm going to boycott them until they start making cruellers again, those funny looking light donuts with ribs.

You can start a petition drive at their facebook page and have others like-minded vote for the funny looking donuts!

As for biz? Tangible facts speak louder than blah, blah, blah! LOL!!

 

[PICHARDO]

 

[Mauricio]

Reading this thread right now for the first time and meanwhile my wife comes home with a box of fresh Krispy Kreme donuts, how great is that!

 

[PICHARDO]

I just wish they'd make Crullers.

It's interesting..... I have them on my Facebook page, so I get all of their updates. On every single update, I make a comment about how great it would be if they had Crullers, and how many I would buy.

(That's why National has A & W Root beer, Dr. Pepper, and Mountain Dew now, because I asked for them, every day, for about 2 years)

You'd think(at least I would), that if a potential customer was so emphatic about buying Crullers if they made them, that at least they'd make them as a special offering once or twice.

Nope.


Every time I go in the store and ask for Crullers, they just say, "We don't make those"

That's the kind of attitude that makes you lose customers.

Pich, why don't you say something to the owners, if you know them.

I will drop them a BB...

 

[Mauricio]

isn't Corripio the owner of KK in DR? In my experience (lately) one of the better dominican companies in customer attention. I had a problem with my fridge last month, bought 2 years ago. I didn't even have to say my name, based on caller id (i suppose) they opened my file, saw when and where I bought which brand and the next day a mechanic came, knowing what fridge he had to repair, and in the meantime he repaired two Flojet water pumps (bought a new one after the first one died, now both work) and the stove.

A week later I called them again because the fridge was behaving weird, they came right away, didn't have to pay a dime, and actually the problem there was not the fridge but the inverter. I was pleasantly surprised