Retail Watchers

The CEO has commented that they are going to make some changes and although he has not mentioned getting off the crazy train for weird drinks I strongly believe that is the route they're going to go. He did mention some new menu items (unnamed and not described) coming soon. He also directly stated...

Back on topic of Dutch Bros, I do not believe they are taking share from Starbucks. They have a completely different type of menu. They are busiest at night when Starbucks is either closing or closed entirely. Their drinks have disturbing levels of caffeine with 5 and 6 shots of espresso in some. T...

First off most of these Circle Ks in CA especially NorCal are franchises/dealer sites and they do not even participate in the Circle K app. This is the first problem. With Circle K, there are several brands. Circle K is normally company owned. Over the years, Couche Tard also bought Kangaroo and On...

I'm a serial soda drinker and noticed the price drop last week. In Houston, we're still Starting at 79 Cents at the normal price, and the cashier rang me up for 86 Cents for an XL. I honestly thought she was just being nice and double-checked it was correct before I paid. The XL was $1.19 previousl...

Franchise stores...

We will see how this goes.

Best at this point to try to look at the quality of the product and form an opinion based on the quality of the product as opposed to the "made in." I've seen some really bad Made in USA summer sandals, gift wrap, in recent years at Wal Mart. Like the comparable items that said "Made ...

The Harris Teeter program "Fresh Foods Market" looked a lot better than Home Chef... tasted better at Harris Teeter too (not excellent, but better). The Safeway Ready Meals program doesn't look any better than Home Chef but it has way more SKUs and appears to have far more waste. Then aga...

The WinCo in North Reno started as 80k square feet Cub, they deemed it too busy, too smelly, too much tension of customers getting too close together and getting agitated, so it was expanded into an Office Max building next door some time ago and it is about 110k square feet. The store has a larger ...

This really depends on the Wal Mart. In immediate Reno, I am not sure the last time I saw the Nursery registers in operation and Nursery doors to the parking lot open to the public at any of the stores. I think it was in 2019. In Sparks they open the area and registers in the summer and at Christmas...

Took a harder look at the nursery in Grocery Outlet. They have plants from 3 providers: 25% or so Cal Color- these plants do not look good. Package sizes are weird and they are just sloppy. 20% or so Bonnie - little plants in clear plastic cups (what happened to the old compostable cups they always ...