Retail Watchers

Pharmacies can be very profitable, but it requires pharmacies to say "no." If insurances don't cover a certain medication, you have say make a tough decision. Why order a medication and give it away at a loss? CVS and Walgreens will do this. Sorry, we don't have Ozempic in stock. Of cours...

Sam Walton didn't curate a damned thing at Sam's Club. He literally stole the entire concept from Sol Price and was proud of it. He met with Sol Price and picked his brain about his Price Club membership warehouses then studied the stores out West and made his own version starting in the South. Thi...

Great story about the collapse of the Red Lobster empire.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/03/food ... bankruptcy

How are the two Staples store performing in the Reno area?? Are they performing better than the Office Depot stores? What is the best performing Office Depot store in Reno/Sparks?? How is the OfficeMax in Elko doing, being in a small market of only 47,000 people in its entire area?? LOW RENT. That ...

Walgreens realized that those clinics were losing money and shut them down. Originally Walgreens thought that doctor's offices like those would bring in tons of prescriptions to Walgreens. That is not the case as many customers hate Walgreens. Walgreens is so understaffed that it is difficult to ev...

I rarely eat there, but when I do I find that the quality is solid. Fries always perfectly cooked, hot, crispy, just the right amount of salt. Hard to beat their plain fries. Hot dog with grilled onions that taste very fresh and not overdone. Bun perfectly toasted on a flat top. I guess the chain do...

Some Roark owned concepts that might fit (I didn't realize how many of these they owned); Auntie Anne's, Carvel, Cinnabon, Jamba, McAlister’s, Schlotzsky's, Seattle's Best Coffee (when did SBUX give that up?), Baskin Robbins, Dunkin Donuts, Jimmy John's. I think any of these would be an upgrade fro...

jamcool wrote: ↑Today, 7:56 am Another beautiful day in the OAK.

Wait till the rats start robbing the customers. I can see it now... Rats steal their food off the table, then they leave and go find thieves stole their car. Par for the course.

That is the simple answer to the question. Any other kind of answer would leave both chains up to antitrust prosecution, since you cannot prevent competition like that. How would you enforce that though? Order Sheetz to immediately build and open locations in Wawa territory and vice versa? Probably...

Remember that 90% of abandoned sites never emerge from retailer-landlord NDA agreements. I know so many just from my last company but I would never reveal them because NDA. Lease negotiations are always under NDA. The only time you ever will find out is when they make it to the altar and then someo...