Retail Watchers

New closure list released today. Four stores total, one each in New York (117th and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem, Manhattan), Pennsylvania (Cecil B. Moore and Broad in North Philadelphia), Virginia (downtown Virginia Beach), and New Jersey (Sewell).

Only one store in today's new closure list - Youngstown, New York (a town at the northwesternmost corner of the state along Lake Ontario, directly across it to the southeast from Toronto), an older store housed in a former centennial A&P building. The nearest stores post-closure are in Ransomvil...

7 new closures were announced yesterday. Two closures each in New Jersey, Connecticut and Virginia, plus the store at Main Street and Nottingham Road in Dayton, Ohio.

Took a quick look into the Dearborn, Michigan store this afternoon and it looked pretty well stocked from what little I saw of it, so that region is probably preforming better.

New closure docket dropped today, and it has one Michigan store - the Woodward/Square Lake store, one of two in Bloomfield Township. Woodward/Square Lake is an upper-class area, although it is a stone's throw away from Pontiac city limits and a Rite Aid two miles from this one recently closed.

Another batch of closures dropped yesterday, and it's a smaller one this time: three New York stores (the only store in Tonawanda [former Eckerd], Halsey Street and Broadway in Brooklyn [and it's adjacent to a station for the subway's J line], and one of four stores in Lockport [the closing one is a...

The first sizable store closure list in a while dropped today. Two Michigan stores this time: the last store in Novi (an unremodeled Customer World store at 13 and Novi Road) and one of three stores in Sterling Heights (15 and Dodge Park, also a Customer World-era store, though this one was remodele...

Another interesting thought regarding this topic is that one of the Walgreens stores in Taylor, MI, is basically their typical store type but it's part of a strip mall, and this one was acquired almost 10 years ago from the independent that originally opened this store. Walgreens even remodeled it i...

According to the Minute Clinic website's locator, the one in Wyandotte, Michigan (Fort & Northline) has closed, unknown exactly when, but it was likely within the past few months. This was the only Minute Clinic location Downriver, but a few Minute Clinics remain open elsewhere in the Detroit me...

This article on the closing Midtown Detroit Rite Aid mentions another factor in its closure that isn't corporate-related: allegedly this location had theft issues. https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2024/03/13/rite-aid-cvs-drugstore-walgreens-closures-woodward-detroit-highland-park/729290400...