Retail Watchers

. But they did have GE, LG, and Samsung. GE was the only one of the three that I know for sure offers at least some U.S. made appliances (Samsung and LG are Korean companies) While LG and Samsung are popular brands, there are folks like myself that lean toward American made on larger purchases. GE'...

Acme seems to be the comeback kid. Being written off for years, it seems to have come back. When I went to Acme, I did not think it was so bad. I was there when Safeway was closing Dominicks. To me, Acme seemed like a standard Albertsons. The stores were well stocked, clean, high priced, but did no...

Not to start any rumors, but this odd offer popped up on a deal website for purchasing shoes at Sears. (it's for an offer of $25 back in points when you spend $25), but anyway, it's only valid at the stores on this list and the pdf is oddly named 'Liquidity_Details.pdf' (as in liquidation?). Might b...

They have been trying to sell off the auto center business for a few years now, but there doesn't seem to be much interest (I mean, why would anyone want to buy a bunch of garages on a mall property that probably aren't doing so hot to begin with?). Sears is still putting some money into the brands ...

This company removing self checkouts is causing the lines to be even longer. This makes it that much harder to actually offer "Three's a Crowd." Siphoning off 4 customers at a time to go use self checkout really helps get those line lengths down and stop the bottlenecks at the front end. ...

Here's another article from today showing that Target is not quite on Target. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/17/targets-traffic-problems-wont-be-an-easy-fix.html -Again they point out that people aren't coming in for groceries (or much else either) -A note about the Pharmacy switchover (which I think w...

And just as I said in a previous post, it is pretty much now confirmed that Target is having trouble selling groceries.

https://consumerist.com/2016/08/15/two- ... groceries/

I'm really surprised the number is not higher in all honesty. Through all of Macy's mergers over the years, they ended up with stores in almost every mall across the country. The problem is, the type of shopper that Macy's targets is dwindling. Middle class people are shopping at places like Target ...

I hate to say Kmart's time ran out years ago. It made the mistake by not keeping up with Walmart's Walmart Supercenter stores with Super Kmart Center stores. It is sad and not a surprise to see Kmart fade away. Actually, I think it was a good idea to give up on the 'Super' concept. Even Walmart and...

One other thing remains - whatever Martin's labelled stores are not being sold - those it would seem to make sense at some point to redo them as Giant, since the only reason the Martin's name came about years ago was when the two Giant chains were separately owned and as one moved into areas the ot...