Retail Watchers

Kroger is growing again by buying Harris Teeter! Here is the news release:

http://ir.kroger.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=10 ... ID=1836016

It has been years since I have been in that store. I know that for awhile, it still had the Olson's decor package. So is this the first or second remodel as a QFC?

I just saw a article that is surmising that maybe CVS/Pharmacy may build it's first Seattle area outlet in Burien, Washington, one of Seattle's suburbs. Here is the article:

http://www.highlinetimes.com/2013/07/01 ... al-busines

I was looking on the Jewel-Ocso website and they have now gotten rid of their card and have adopted the "You're in For Something Fresh" tagline. Shaw's has not done that yet.

Take a look at the "Albertsons Market" website. While the website still says "Albertsons Market", when you click on the ads for stores in the former LLC market areas, it now just says "Albertsons". But they are still using the tagline, "It means a great deal."

Here are some drawings showing the proposed Smith's Marketplace to be built in Los Alamos, NM.

http://trinityplace.aiserver.us/documents/TrinityPl.pdf

http://trinityplace.aiserver.us/documen ... ochure.pdf

I remember two PayLess Drug stores with diagonal aisles. One is no longer a PayLess. There was a PayLess in Burien on 4th Ave SW. It had PayLess colors and the pharmacy was near the front. The store's decor did survive as a Rite Aid for the short term until Rite Aid built a store with a drive thru p...

Here are two articles about the reuniting of the previously separate Albertsons chains.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/03/2 ... rt-of.html

http://www.supervaluinvestors.com/phoen ... highlight=

I think the reason Kroger keeps the Smith's name in New Mexico is because Fry's probably had never operated there. So they went with a more familiar name perhaps?

Kroger is planning to expand it's Fred Meyer styled "Smith's Marketplace" to New Mexico. Here is the link:
http://www.ladailypost.com/content/trin ... o-eateries