Retail Watchers

Some of the quotes in that article are highly disingenuous. A large store on a large lot in urban San Francisco is expensive real estate. Simply from the perspective of earning a return on that asset, Safeway would want to be open whenever there is enough demand. There's no way that they want to hav...

Hamilton aggressively fought off Walmart a while back. That little store fills a niche in that town. At least it would if properly merchandised ... OK, who in NJ knows Eddie? That Avenel store has to be the strangest choice to remain as one of the last 6 in the country - in a plaza with a defunct Pa...

Our local Rite Aid has shortened their pharmacy hours. The Fred Meyer has done the same. I saw a line for prescription drop off that was probably about 30 minutes long at a Safeway on the Oregon Coast a few weeks ago. I saw a line for drop off in a Fred Meyer that was probably 20-25 minutes long yes...

I am struggling to understand why this wasn't handled better. Initially, all prescriptions were going to be transferred to the nearest Walgreen's, with Walgreen's opening in Bi-Mart if there wasn't a store nearby. Then they started transferring prescriptions to a Walgreen's that is 15-20 minutes awa...

Bi-Mart has announced the transfer of pharmacy files from four stores so far: Roseburg, Sutherlin, Emmett and Star. The Sutherlin files were transferred to a Walgreens that is 17 minutes away in Roseburg, and the Star files were transferred to a Walgreens that is 16 minutes away in Meridian. A quick...

Don't forget that these companies have been much more profitable than usual over the past 18 months. Probably none of us know what Raley's balance sheet looks like, but there is a decent chance that they have reduced debt or built a bunch of cash over the past 18 months. Or they could have paid a ni...

Just for the record, inflation is a highly complex issue and absolutely cannot be explained using one single factor. This is exacerbated by covid. I'm not breaking any news to say that there is a combination of factors that are probably affecting prices, including but not limited to * Overseas produ...

Calitalian, do tell what advanced education do you have, and what research have you done, that allows you to boil down something as complex as the US economy into one single factor, stated so definitively? Please post your sources. Even Dollar Tree, the last holdout of true dollar stores, is throwin...

And, probably like everywhere else, these Rite Aids are hit and miss. More than a few are in tired strip malls. Our local store looks great and has a very busy pharmacy, but has a lot of empty shelves throughout the store (which is not an oversized former PayLess -- this was a replacement store buil...

Also Corvallis, which has two Bi-Marts with pharmacies (both stores seem to do reasonably well from what I can tell - the only chain discount store competition in town is a small Fred Meyer, and both stores are in good locations) and no Walgreen's stores (almost certainly one of the largest towns in...