Retail Watchers

Phoenix is interesting, but here's the list: The big 5 "traditional": 1.) Walmart (Neighborhood Market + Supercenter). 2.) Fry's (Food & Drug, Marketplace, Signature) 3.) Safeway 4.) Bashas 5.) Albertsons The others: - Fresh and Easy - Trader Joe's - Whole Foods Market - Sprouts - WinC...

I was listening to 92.3 FM in Phoenix, AZ yesterday and I heard a radio ad for Rite Aid. I was pretty stunned because, as far as I can tell, there are no Rite Aids in the Phoenix, AZ market. Why would a retailer advertise for a store in a market that they don't serve? Is this a sign of things to come?

In an interesting twist of fate, the former Albertsons Express fuel station at 75th Ave / Cactus in Peoria, AZ has signs that it will soon become a Fry's Fuel Center. Albertsons closed the store there in 2007 and it appears that Cerberus sold the fuel center to a Shell franchisee when the store clos...

I like the Self Checkout machines at my local Sam's club. They're fast and kind of fun as they consist of a price "gun" scanner as opposed to simply setting the items on a scanner.

Is there a rhyme or reason to Safeway's "lifestyle" renovations? In my casual observations, the vast majority of Safeway's Arizona stores have been renovated to the "lifestyle" format. However, Safeway has at least 3 stores that I know of that have not: 67th Ave / Peoria, 51st Av...

storewanderer wrote:I believe they were looking at distribution somewhere in New Mexico. Just something I heard, not something I ever saw released.

They're opening up a distribution center in Phoenix.

Don't think a DC in Phoenix would work for DFW though.