Retail Watchers

Update on what's going on behind the scenes at Lidl. New CEO in charge, the struggles they've had for the past 6 years, new strategy and more: https://www.grocerydive.com/news/pardon ... gy/688969/

I'm not convinced... this small closing round and Lidl is near bankruptcy?

Seems like Starbucks is at a whole ton of retail chains now.

This story has taken an interesting turn, particularly for the Maryland stores: https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/ ... arket.html

Add District Heights, MD/Oxon Hill, MD to the closing list. The store is right at the border between the two areas. https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2023/07/12/lidl-closing-district-heights-store-others.html This is one of the Shoppers locations that Lidl purchased in 2019/2020. Brooklyn...

Yet they do continue to open/announce new stores... It is unfortunate. I think their format is excellent. The problem is they must not be pulling the volumes they need, and some of the stores they are opening strike me as oversized. The expense structure may be too high. Something is clearly not wo...

In the past few weeks, Lidl has announced a string of closings across their U.S. store base. So far closing are: Brooklyn Park, MD Thomasville, NC Burlington, NJ Howell, NJ Florence, SC Charlottesville, VA Richmond, VA This has to be their largest closing round since operations began in 2017. What's...

While I do like some of the elements, and the features of the store it still strikes me as typical to what every grocery retailer is doing now. I prefer what Hy-Vee had right before this.

Someone must have made a mistake. Generation X is not usually targeted by a fast-food campaign. It's usually Boomers and Gen Z. '90s nostalgia has been profitable for a while now. Not to mention that generation probably has the fondest memories of McDonald's past. Personally I like this campaign, b...

Several items come to mind: Selling the "national" brands of chips and pretzels like Lays and Rold Gold instead of the local PA brands like Snyders of Hanover or Herrs. Also not selling Hatfield pork products. With Hatfield I wonder if not selling the product was related to Hatfield being...