Retail Watchers

Obviously there are much more impacted areas throughout the West Coast, but I am interested to see what happens to the small but successful Foods Co operation in Nor Cal. There isn’t a whole lot of overlap, the big one is in the Mission District in SF. Maybe some overlap in the East Bay (South Oakla...

The major profit of pharmacies today is vaccinations. Each vaccination is very profitable except for COVID vaccinations. You get an administration fee along with the cost of the vaccine. The profit of one shingles vaccination equals the profit of dozens of prescriptions. For shingles you have to ge...

I think it is more of a reminder to keep your eyes open in these areas. 10-15 years ago in a place like Pleasant Hill, you would not think twice about much of anything, regardless what time it was. This type of stuff just... did not happen there. This absolutely impacts the retailers, customers, an...

My gosh, keep this Nextdoor.com nonsense to the local Mom’s Facebook group. There is no relation to an unrelated person, during an unrelated police chase, happening to seek refuge in a location that happened to be a store. This stuff happens everywhere in the world everyday and quite frankly no one ...

Mail order medications suffer from theft. I work in a pharmacy and we gets complaints all the time that drugs were stolen from in front of their houses. Most customers hate mail order so much that they end up coming back to the store to pick up in person. That’s an incredible amount of selection bi...

The lot behind the store is City of Roseville open space and won’t be developed. The plot across the street is zoned commercial but will probably be reasoned to residential. I don’t think visibility was a huge issue, the store is more visible than any of the previously mentioned retailers in the are...

The Pleasant Grove store was extremely difficult to access. A very busy intersection, no left turns, and only one safe entry point (the other one requires cutting off vehicles trying to merge onto Roseville Pkwy). There is a Walmart, Safeway, Sam’s Club, and CVS within a half mile of that location. ...

This article is exclusively regarding the UK division. In the past few days the US division has announced a new store in Florida and stated they’re looking for other locations

Is the store being renovated? Walmart is replacing the bathrooms in many of the stores it’s renovating, which requires it to rent portable bathrooms for use during the process. They’ve done this to several stores near me… one had old soiled toilets on display in shopping carts in front of the bathr...

I walked into a Raley’s recently and saw a giant sign talking about how Something Extra members get the best price. At first I thought they had implemented a club card similar to Safeway. However, upon further examination they are pushing “Something Extra Exclusive Deals” via the app, similar to Saf...