Retail Watchers

Focus is on the app and that it apparently offers "bargains" alongside showing in-store inventory.


Creative seems to sound a little different, I am thinking they have a new ad agency.

I'll probably add this to the national thread as well, but G.O. is pushing that they now offer an "app" and that it can search your store's inventory, so you know if they will or won't have something in stock.

It's not as clear from the desktop website, but MoC has updated their logo and font families to reflect some of their new movements in "local" food and branding. They definitely are branding the "Oregon-ness" so clearly not moving into SW Washington state (or elsewhere) soon. Fro...

Latest decor and appearance of New Seasons Markets, open in Milwaukie, Oregon. 10830 SE Oak St This is the former Albertsons that was briefly a Haggen. Report puts it at 35,000 square feet. It always felt comfortably large to me in the former ownership. New Seasons opens its newest in Milwaukie I co...

Oregon is one of the least religious states in the country, and this email came from a political party message. I think it is similar to agreeing with what the other poster stated. It’s Easter - a day of celebration for many, whether secular or religious; a good day for contemplation of what good we...

ClownLoach wrote: ↑March 27th, 2024, 4:54 pm Did anyone notice they opened one on the strip in Las Vegas?

Yep, right before the Super Bowl.

I haven't been in a Canadian mall for about a decade, but the last time I was in one in B.C., they continue to be more like our malls used to be - stores that sold a variety of things and would attract a variety of people to them. The Bay was kind of snoozy like Macy's but not terrible, (at that tim...

Unfortunately the links are broken. Yeah sorry about that, I posted that from my phone and now I can't seem to fix it so here you go. Picture Store Tour Hi Market Report Blog, as you seem to be on the other side of the country, here is a link to a LARGE Kroger-owned store built from the ground up w...

They seem to be moving toward larger, more standard sized stores---the new in downtown Bethesda replaced a very tiny store (even more crowded that GWU because of a more awkward floorplan) and seems to be the same size as the new one near Union Market and both are similar to the newish one (a replac...