Retail Watchers

The ACME at 4365 Kirkwood Hwy in Wilmington, DE is set to close this fall . It's an acquired Pathmark that received a very light renovation in 2017. There's an ALDI across the street, a ShopRite a mile and a half southeast, and another ACME each two miles east and two miles west. There's also an ind...

How many planned but never opened Amazon Fresh stores are now occupied by other tenants? Three in New England went to Big Y (Westport, CT; Brookfield, CT; and Westborough, MA), and now ALDI is moving into half of a planned Amazon Fresh on Staten Island . Quite a few are still sitting vacant, and now...

The Sun-Times has done a lot of good reporting on the situation of these Save-A-Lot stores. The store that opened today was the first of the six, but the company's financial health continues to be in question. And just a couple days ago, the Sun-Times released this feature on the company addressing ...

Food Bazaar is confirmed in Coney Island, Carlstadt, Piscataway, and one new location, Hempstead, on Long Island. Mount Vernon seems to be delayed because of permits with the city. With Food Bazaar adding Hempstead (the only renovated Stop & Shop store to close), six of the 32 stores will have r...

From The Cincinnati Enquirer: 'They are all dogs': Texts by execs could haunt Kroger merger with Albertsons I've been to three of the Grand Union stores, and yes, they're in horrible shape. One of the larger ones even had several aisles closed off. C&S would have to radically change to be a viab...

It seems like these replacements will need to do significant hiring in order to get these stores operating up to their standards. Are they keeping the union? Absolutely right -- both Uncle G and Food Bazaar run significantly higher-labor operations than S&S. In a Stop & Shop, it doesn't sur...

5 of the 32 locations now have replacement tenants: Uncle Giuseppe's: Greenvale, NY Food Bazaar: Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY; Mount Vernon, NY; Carlstadt, NJ; Piscataway, NJ Greenvale to Uncle G and the Brooklyn and Mt Vernon stores to FB just makes total sense and those are all but guaranteed succes...

So I've been visiting a lot of the closing Stop & Shop stores when I can, and most recently got to go to some of the locations on Long Island and in CT and MA. They're well on their way to closure -- a few had already closed service departments and all had started clearing out the shelves (altho...

Yes, this is old news and all the delis have been reopened (at least all the delis I've seen in stores). A couple other chains have also closed certain delis -- for instance, some ShopRites sell Boar's Head and some don't, and I saw at least one ShopRite close and clean the deli and then reopen it....

Yes, this is old news and all the delis have been reopened (at least all the delis I've seen in stores). A couple other chains have also closed certain delis -- for instance, some ShopRites sell Boar's Head and some don't, and I saw at least one ShopRite close and clean the deli and then reopen it. ...