Retail Watchers

https://www.wral.com/story/wawa-in-nc-10-stores-by-end-of-2024-90-stores-in-10-years/21433211/ A couple of weeks ago the first Wawa store in North Carolina opened in Kill Devil Hills near the Wright Brothers Memorial on the Outer Banks, with plans announced for 9 more stores to open in Eastern NC by...

In this case it sounds like a Korean grocer is moving in, and those often tend to be followed by a number of other related Asian restarants and other businesses. For example, probably around 10 years ago the lower floor of the former Mervyn's store at Southcenter Mall in Tukwila WA (south of Seattle...

I know the Marysville WinCo store was a new build (where all the other WinCo stores in the area were built in existing structures) that has a strip of other retail on one side of the building, but it looks like the store was built at the same time as all of the other stuff in that shopping center so...

I do believe that this store would be the closest WinCo to Seattle (previously it would have been Edmonds) so that might work to its benefit. Renton also has the closest Walmart to Seattle, although that one is a couple of miles away near the intersection of I-405 and SR167. Not sure what transit ac...

https://apnews.com/article/williams-sonoma-fine-ftc-made-usa-10313984e90fa206d219ed0546a2b9a2 Williams-Sonoma has been fined $3.175 million by the FTC after it was found that a number of products in their house brands were made in China but labeled as being made in America. They were previously cite...

Haven't been to a Circle K here in a while, but I know they've been running $1.29 32 ounce Polar Pop drinks for as long as I've been here, and it's not uncommon for them to run promos to add a Circle K branded snack item for $1 with a drink purchase. The main issue I've seen with Circle K is that th...

I shopped at that Fry's a fair bit before they went downhill, I think the building and location would actually be a pretty good fit for a WinCo store. I know they have taken over big-box sized properties in the past (the Everett store, for example, was originally a HomeBase) and that one might be a ...

I don't know when it happened since I don't live there anymore, but at some point it appears that almost all of the Denny's restaurants in the Seattle/Tacoma area returned to full 24 hour operation. There are only 3 Denny's locations near here, all with different hours. The one closest to here in Gr...

I know Crossroads in Bellevue had a Nordstrom Place Two store for a while, but I don't think it lasted long. After that store closed it got subdivided into smaller stores. The Hallmark store moved into part of the space along with Party City, a Dress Barn that's now gone and Hand and Stone massage. ...

Another factor to consider is that the Barnes & Noble stores now sell a much larger amount of non book merchandise than they used to. At the Greensboro (Friendly Center) store I've visited I'd say at least 1/3 of the store is now occupied with toys, games and other non book merchandise (for exam...