Retail Watchers

The liquidation sale has started at the West 35th Street Randalls in Austin. Gotta love that whopping 5% discount :lol: :lol: :lol: Starbucks closed. Floral closed. Pharmacy closes next Friday. They’ve already started their usual MO of shipping in random crap … unsold sports clothing and all the un...

i expect sears to finally meet it's ultimate fate and not reopen it's doors after the stay at home orders are lifted. I think Sears will re-open... not sure why... not much to even liquidate. And you never know - especially the way the markets are now.... Perhaps Eddie will snap up some other distr...

Taubman wants its tenants to go get money from business interruption insurance and still pay Taubman. I doubt Taumban is going to get a waiver on its property taxes, security costs, loans, etc.- they are still having to pay all that on dark malls. Sure, maintenance costs are lower without customers...

So exactly what is Taubman going to do if tenants simply don't have the money to pay the rent and, therefore, don't pay it? Lock them out? Sell whatever fixtures and inventory the tenant hasn't removed prior to the lockout? Somehow I have a feeling that there will soon be a massive glut of second-ha...

So in the midst of great destruction across South Texas and resultant extreme flooding in the Houston area, there are numerous reports floating around that Randalls was price gouging on water and other supplies immediately prior to the storm (for example, bottled water priced at $1 a bottle). Here ...

So in the end, H-E-B just becomes another grocery store, and it becomes an uphill and expensive battle to make their market share worthwhile. Even if Albertsons/Tom Thumb did essentially nothing, they would still face Kroger, which has been long established in Dallas just as it had in Houston. .......

The Central Market at Preston and Royal is a small store - far smaller than the other Central Markets. In fact, it is in an old 1960s vintage former Marina style Safeway - they even preserved the beams of the arched roof which I thought was nice and gives the place a certain charm. So there is prece...

It is true that some H-E-B stores are nicer than others. For example, the new one in Cleburne is nowhere near as nice as the H-E-B Plus in Burleson or the large H-E-B store in Granbury. Then again, Cleburne is a smaller market than the other places - so the store is sized accordingly. The single big...

For clarification, the FTC made Albertsons divest this store; if they did not divest this location, they likely would have been required to divest multiple other surrounding stores to make up for the market share impact. Sprouts would be an interesting tenant in this space; it is definitely right-s...

But would Tom Thumb want it given that they have already walked away from the store in the past? I am guessing there was a reason they were willing to give this one up. Of course, they did reopen the Tom Thumb a few miles north that also became a Sun Fresh and which was later acquired by H-E-B and ...