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- February 15th, 2024, 8:59 am
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Dollar General and the like.....
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1546
Re: Dollar General and the like.....
I don't really feel that this is a surprise at all. I've known for many years that retailers purposely leverage buying power to get sizes and the like to fit their market. Just look around Dollar Tree and Dollar General all day, and you'll never find the size you can get from Walmart or your chosen ...
- February 15th, 2024, 8:18 am
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: How Taco Bell Crippled KFC & Pizza Hut
- Replies: 5
- Views: 617
Re: How Taco Bell Crippled KFC & Pizza Hut
I do want to correct one thing---KFC has not cut chicken in store in at least 35 years I did not know how long that had been happening, but I do know it was part of the quality change. I seem to remember somewhere seeing that after KFC was becoming more standardized, the Colonel himself was still s...
- February 14th, 2024, 1:24 pm
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: How Taco Bell Crippled KFC & Pizza Hut
- Replies: 5
- Views: 617
Re: How Taco Bell Crippled KFC & Pizza Hut
Disclaimer: I did not (and am not going to) watch the video. Yum has not invested significantly in improving Pizza Hut or KFC since their purchase, only in simplifying prep and menus, often at the expense of taste and freshness; a case in point is Pizza Hut. I worked in a restaurant owned by a large...
- February 3rd, 2024, 7:45 pm
- Forum: Southeast USA
- Topic: ALDI to acquire Winn-Dixie
- Replies: 210
- Views: 24031
Re: ALDI to acquire Winn-Dixie
Rouses is an AWG customer, but are trying to become self-distributing. They recently opened a new headquarters in Houma, LA just off US90 that will cater to their ever-expanding portfolio of stores.
- January 16th, 2024, 2:17 pm
- Forum: Southeast USA
- Topic: ALDI to acquire Winn-Dixie
- Replies: 210
- Views: 24031
- January 15th, 2024, 9:25 am
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Sam's Club Rolling out AI Receipt Checking Gates, Walmart expanding Delivery by Drones
- Replies: 8
- Views: 841
Re: Sam's Club Rolling out AI Receipt Checking Gates, Walmart expanding Delivery by Drones
The bigger question is how many of these ideas/initiatives will bleed over to the Wal Mart side? I expect some will. It has long been known in Walmart corporate folklore that Sam's operates independently of Walmart. Sam drove that point home with a sledgehammer in corporate meetings when they start...
- January 12th, 2024, 9:41 am
- Forum: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: CVS Closing Dozens of Pharmacies Inside Target
- Replies: 97
- Views: 8559
Re: CVS Closing Dozens of Pharmacies Inside Target
If the front end was profitable, then why are all the chains cutting it to minimum assortment, jacking up prices to sky high, all self checkouts, and piloting what are in effect pharmacy only stores? Obviously they are not making money there these days due to higher labor costs and margin pressures...
- January 12th, 2024, 8:01 am
- Forum: Gas Stations & Convenience Stores
- Topic: 7-Eleven buying large chunk of Sunoco
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3511
Re: 7-Eleven buying large chunk of Sunoco
This purchase allows 7-11 to take in the remaining part of Stripes/Laredo Taco that they do not already own, per multiple sites.
- January 12th, 2024, 7:10 am
- Forum: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: CVS Closing Dozens of Pharmacies Inside Target
- Replies: 97
- Views: 8559
Re: CVS Closing Dozens of Pharmacies Inside Target
CVS saw that running a pharmacy without a front end was subject to losses. We all saw this coming for some time. I disagree with that sentiment for two reasons: Pharmacies in CVS and Walgreens are the profit centers of their main stores - why do you think front store pricing there is so high? To ma...
- January 10th, 2024, 2:59 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: JCPenney Portrait Studio
- Replies: 4
- Views: 779
Re: JCPenney Portrait Studio
JCPenney is trying to drum up business by offer free headshots. I can't believe the portrait studios are still open. Do they even do any business these days? Are there still portrait studios run by other companies anywhere else? Didn't Sears have these at one time? https://chainstoreage.com/jcpenne...