Retail Watchers

Dollar Tree opened up inside an abandoned Walgreens in Dublin, California not too long ago. The store still looks like a Walgreens. The floor is a Walgreens floor and they even kept the Walgreens mirrors all around the store near the ceilings. The pharmacy was turned into a break room for employees....

Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade was once a vibrant outdoor mall, but now it is a ghost town. There are many possible causes: homeless people, loss of chain stores, etc. They are thinking that perhaps Eatertainment may save it. Who knows. I was in the area in 2019 and the pier and beach were pa...

The very name is false advertising these days. Almost everything is over 99 cents.

Dollar Tree will have to replace those signs with new The 99 Store signs. Eventually they will all convert to Dollar Tree except for the token few stores to keep the trademark alive.

Would a 99 Cent Only Stores run by Dollar Tree be an improvement?

Ollie's buys 11 99 Cent Only Stores.

https://chainstoreage.com/ollies-acquir ... -locations

There is a supermarket in Los Angeles that is like the Costco of Thai food.

https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/lax-c ... 390753.php

Not all bookstores are closing down. There are still some surviving in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. This one is in a very interesting looking building.

https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/last- ... 462012.php

Burger King nuggets vary from restaurant to restaurant. Sometimes they are hot and fresh. Other times they taste like they were cooked in rotten oil. The meat is sort of soft and crumbly with a crumbly fried coating that is not hard like McDonald's. Prices vary even in the same city. Sometimes the 4...

A new law to ban reusable plastic shopping bags has passed the legislature.

Now what will people use?

https://fox5sandiego.com/sustainable-sa ... ping-bags/

Chick-fil-a seems to be opening more non-drive-thru restaurants. I drove by a recently opened Chick-fil-a in Pleasanton, California that had no drive-thru. It was built just down the street from an existing drive-thru Chick-fil-a. Literally it is a block away. Another Chick-fil-a with no drive-thru ...