Retail Watchers

The Safeway in The Forum in Bend (2650 NE US Highway 20) was remodeled to that interior last year. That Safeway still has a false ceiling. That interior felt quite a bit different with the false ceiling. I thought it looked really good in the Bend store. (Sort of how the stores that were remodeled ...

The Safeway in The Forum in Bend (2650 NE US Highway 20) was remodeled to that interior last year. That Safeway still has a false ceiling. That interior felt quite a bit different with the false ceiling. I thought it looked really good in the Bend store. (Sort of how the stores that were remodeled ...

Are all their Minute Clinic closures so sloppy? They still have exterior signs on the ones here, and even stickers on the front doors about the Minute Clinic and Health Hub. Some stores don't even have closed signs. This store had a ton of closed signs, it looks like they got the signs for the enti...

Was it doing better as Ace? Ace had a huge portion of the space filled with "furniture." But I never saw much traffic there, the garden program seemed to shrink every year, it felt like a dying store for many years before Big R took over. Since Big R took over, I still see very little tra...

There was also a period where Waremart, and later WinCo, carried Lucerne brand yogurt. Right up until WinCo started rolling out its own store brand. I believe WinCo still gets some product from Safeway, such as some breads. However, there was also some Fred Meyer and other Kroger brand trays the br...

The past couple times I've gone into Ace Stores I've left empty handed due to the stores not having what I needed. The stores were semi messy, price labeling was sloppy, and one store was so helpful it was so obvious they thought I was there to shoplift and I became uncomfortable to even browse. Th...

The past couple times I've gone into Ace Stores I've left empty handed due to the stores not having what I needed. The stores were semi messy, price labeling was sloppy, and one store was so helpful it was so obvious they thought I was there to shoplift and I became uncomfortable to even browse. Th...

Around Reno there seems to be some kind of a weird thing going on with Ace Hardware. Someone is opening Ace Hardwares in what feels like every shopping center in town with enough space. I have no idea what the logic of this is. This is all very recent in the past few months. Multiple of these shopp...

McAlister’s, Schlotsky’s, or even Jimmy John’s would be an upgrade over Subway…

Well, since Sonic and Arby’s are corporate cousins now, I wonder if they’re using the same fries?