Retail Watchers

67th @ Indian School was a former Smith’s …one of the first Smith’s stores built in the Phoenix area around 1990.

The question is….will WaWa ever expand westward? QT is planning to expand into Florida.

A number of Fry’s sites were originally Smith’s- especially in smaller towns like Flagstaff and Cottonwood. Converted over at the time of the Kroger-Fred Meyer merger.
And Bashas’ cash cows have always been Food City, AJ’s Fine Foods and the rural stores like the Dine’ Markets.

The question at Target….will those 5000+ items be on the shelves?

Maybe they can reduce the size of the gift department. And they have done pretty well in the past without California.
They also have ownership problems with some hedge fund clown.

Springfield used to be the predominant private label brand in California, even having its own ad campaign and billboards. It became the store brand of Arden Mayfair even sold at its El Rancho stores in Arizona.

Sounds like they sell the same crap as Five Below or the Dollar stores…only in an Asian style.

A "Strategy Day" type open house is not going to announce anything of substance from a transaction perspective, or even anything from a financial or restructuring perspective. These types of calls happen all the time at retailers, they're usually called "investor day" and they 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 G...

Home Depot and Lowe's have decimated the nursery industry, and now they have horrible quality at horrible prices since they have a duopoly in many areas. There are still some chains left like Armstrong in SoCal but they have skewed to more premium quality plants that don't really compete with the o...