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- Today, 5:39 am
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Kohl's Earnings Surprise Crash and Burn
- Replies: 25
- Views: 807
Re: Kohl's Earnings Surprise Crash and Burn
Dillard's sales continue to slide and their profit margins have taken a beating since COVID when they (and others) were able to sell more full price merchandise. I recently visited two of their stores in Ohio. Neither had any customers and one of them seemed to have literally no staffing in the hom...
- June 1st, 2024, 6:29 am
- Forum: Mid-Atlantic USA
- Topic: ARTICLE: Giant bans customers from carrying large bags in DC stores amid mass shoplifting
- Replies: 11
- Views: 509
Re: ARTICLE: Giant bans customers from carrying large bags in DC stores amid mass shoplifting
Sometimes simple is the best solution. Way back in time no one was allowed to bring in any receptacle that could accommodate store products (at least in the stores I worked in or shopped. If it was a huge purse type thing they were followed around the store. But no one was allowed to "shop&quo...
- June 1st, 2024, 5:47 am
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Kohl's Earnings Surprise Crash and Burn
- Replies: 25
- Views: 807
Re: Kohl's Earnings Surprise Crash and Burn
Yes was just editing my post to clarify. I think technically they started the extra clearance in Q2. Three year stack of negative Q1 comps isn't unlike other nearly dead department store chains that are loaded up with debt and too many leased buildings. Chains like Nordstrom or Dillard's with less ...
- May 28th, 2024, 5:42 am
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Los Angeles' The Last Bookstore
- Replies: 7
- Views: 468
Re: Los Angeles' The Last Bookstore
Indie bookstores are thriving. The idies have survived by emphasizing service and understanding who their customers are. They also have multiple ways to drive traffic---the surviving stores do a lot of author events---DC's Politics and Prose has quite a few of these on C-Span which creates an audie...
- May 28th, 2024, 5:19 am
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Official: Red Lobster files Chapter 11
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1629
Re: Official: Red Lobster files Chapter 11
Tying up contracts has a lot to do with these things, in this case, Red Lobster's majority owner, Thai Shrimp. Thai Union Group is the name of the company. They were an equity partner when Golden Gate owned them and became the sole supplier of shrimp. Their influence on management decisions is bein...
- May 27th, 2024, 6:37 am
- Forum: Shopping Centers
- Topic: The Fall of Third Street Promenade
- Replies: 8
- Views: 537
Re: The Fall of Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade was once a vibrant outdoor mall, but now it is a ghost town. There are many possible causes: homeless people, loss of chain stores, etc. They are thinking that perhaps Eatertainment may save it. Who knows. I was in the area in 2019 and the pier and beach were p...
- May 27th, 2024, 6:01 am
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Los Angeles' The Last Bookstore
- Replies: 7
- Views: 468
Re: Los Angeles' The Last Bookstore
Indie bookstores are thriving. The idies have survived by emphasizing service and understanding who their customers are. They also have multiple ways to drive traffic---the surviving stores do a lot of author events---DC's Politics and Prose has quite a few of these on C-Span which creates an audien...
- May 26th, 2024, 5:29 am
- Forum: Northeast USA
- Topic: Stop & Shop closures
- Replies: 121
- Views: 17112
Re: Stop & Shop closures
You guys are slipping. S&S took advantage of a slow news day to announce an unspecified number of closures. This link has more details than the others: https://www.retail-insight-network.com/news/ahold-delhaize-stop-shop-closures-us/ It also mentions more investment in Food Lion and Hannaford. T...
- May 24th, 2024, 6:48 am
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Fashion Valley San Diego JCPenney to be booted for apartments
- Replies: 9
- Views: 567
Re: Fashion Valley San Diego JCPenney to be booted for apartments
The idea of mixing building types is nothing new and probably more promising than a lot of other efforts to redevelop malls. Lifestyle centers mix housing and retail and seem to do fine. urban neighborhoods have been mixed like this forever. The earliest large shopping centers were designed to funct...
- May 24th, 2024, 4:53 am
- Forum: Mid-Atlantic USA
- Topic: Wegman's coming to the Pittsburgh area
- Replies: 4
- Views: 310
Re: Wegman's coming to the Pittsburgh area
Cranberry Twp is a growing area that has a lot of big box retail where the Turnpike crosses I-79. https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/wegmans-in-discussions-to-open-first-store-in-the-pittsburgh-area-report-says/ Pittsburgh could work for them--Giant Eagle is a has a lock but is basically just ...