Retail Watchers

Chick-fil-a seems to be opening more non-drive-thru restaurants. I drove by a recently opened Chick-fil-a in Pleasanton, California that had no drive-thru. It was built just down the street from an existing drive-thru Chick-fil-a. Literally it is a block away. Another Chick-fil-a with no drive-thru...

No purchase required was a great deal. The nuggets seem to have shrunk in size and are not as thick as they used to be. They were also weirdly shaped, not oval or round as they used to be. The 3.29 asking price for 6 pieces is too much. I can still go to Wendys and get a 4 for 4 meal that has 4 nug...

Update: The "remodel" was only two new or refurbished refregeration cases, that's it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The whole side western parking lot was roped off for 2 months for THIS? Tiny tiny tiny parking lot to begin with :x Not even paint in or out...............................GEESH! I'm seeing the...

Based on my observations, no. The remaining stores are nowhere near "overwhelmed with customers". They are barely getting a trickle, and some of the customers are under the impression that the store is also going to close. Rite Aid doesn't sell anything unique, and I don't think they have...

JCPenney is spending $1 Billion on store refreshes and remodels to improve their shopping experience according to Brookfield. I doubt any department store chain has made a comparable investment in years. Also doubt it will be enough to address all the deferred repairs. Nordstrom just remodeled its ...

Despite the "we're working past the department stores" talk, there's a lot of things wrong with malls still. Most of the department store replacements aren't real replacements (often not connecting into the mall), unique specialty stores are almost extinct, and despite hopes that some mal...

I wonder how that will work given how little parking most of their sites have. I guess you get to sit in your car in a line that starts out in the street (hope you don't get hit idling in the street) and create exhaust for 20 minutes to claim your mobile order. But they're creaming Starbucks and th...

Grocery outlet has always been a treasure hunt store for me. You never know what you will find. I really enjoy walking through there and seeing all the failed products end up on the shelves there and shaking my head how those products made it past multiple rounds of review in each company. They have...

Never see any traffic in their Sephora shops. Of course I am perhaps blind and am missing out on the big crowds that supposedly exist. The busiest area at Kohls is the Amazon counter. Second is Sephora. Now having said that, the Sephora's I have seen usually have 3-4 customers, about equal to the n...

The reality is that their store real estate strategy changes after opening stores in the Northwest and California. Their original plan was to go into any mall that could support them. When they decided to go national, they changed their strategy to open only one or two large stores per market. That...