Retail Watchers

Pizza Hut is coming out with a cheeseburger melt.
It is sort of like a Pizza and burger mash up that you can eat on the run.

The restaurant already serves fries, so burgers are a similar step forward.

https://www.nrn.com/quick-service/pizza ... r-business

I used to go to Jack In The Box very often about 4 years ago when the app had free items every week. For some reason the free items disappeared and the app was redesigned. The lack of free items made me avoid Jack In The Box as other restaurants have free items or deals every day. I have noticed tha...

Buffalo Wild Wings must be desperate for business now. They are offering boneless wings and fries Mondays and Wednesdays for $19.99. I wish there were more locations as many closed in the past 4 years. https://www.brandeating.com/2024/05/buffalo-wild-wings-all-you-can-eat-boneless-wings-mondays-and-...

Employees at the first unionized Apple store vote to ok a strike.

https://chainstoreage.com/employees-fir ... ote-strike

My nearest Cirkle K in Concord in the San Francisco Bay Area rebranded from Circle K recently. It is now a Diamond Gas station and convenience store with some of the cheapest gas in the area at $4.89 a gallon. It was a tiny Circle K that was just a bit larger than a cashier booth. The gas used to be...

I remember the Coffee Bean by the Walnut Creek, California Sprouts. It was replaced by Moni Coffee in 2020, but that also closed.

I was listening to man on the bus talking about how his company makes the materials for mattresses in China and then does the final packaging in a warehouse in the Oakland, California area in the US. They call it made in the USA, but it is practically done already in China. The mattresses come off o...

What ever happened to Coffee Bean? There used to many inside of Ralphs and a few in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now they seemed to have disappeared from Northern California. Are there a lot still in Southern California?

I always thought of Coffee Bean as having a smaller menu than Starbucks.

I was wondering why people would want to pay more for electronics. It must be sort of like a pawn shop.

They have some locations opening in California, Utah, New England, Pennsylvania, and the South. Seventy new stores will be opening. Three will be opening in San Francisco. I am eagerly awaiting how that will go. https://chainstoreage.com/news-briefs/2024-05-09?article=paymore-signs-13-franchise-deal...