Retail Watchers

Iowa City is home to the University of Iowa, and there's lots of apartments near this K-Mart.

They'll do fine.

Even if they are, that would still leave 30-plus locations in the Portland area, and unless something's changed, it's pretty much them, Plaid Pantry, and AM/PM for the major players in Portland, isn't it? It's not unheard of, though. Our local 7-Eleven franchisee when bankrupt about ten years ago an...

American Coin-Op has images...

http://www.americancoinop.com/article.c ... leID=18133

I believe the reason you're seeing so much new equipment coming online now is new regulations from the major credit card companies (some of which have been made law in certain states) requiring retailers to use readers that comply with new PCI (Payment Card Industry) regulations. I don't have the cl...

I'll have to remember to swing by there in a few weeks and see what's up.

Social Safeway is back after a gala invitation-only event this evening.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 05008.html

I knew this store had a reputation, but JEEPERS...

Yep. They're done.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6 ... mesticNews

The Oregon - Hollywood Video angle:

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/inde ... falls.html

I was in Vegas this weekend and happened upon a Fresh & Easy with "coming soon" signs on what looked like a complete build with no activity indicating they were actually planning to open it. The store is at 4580 W Sahara Ave. It's listed as "coming soon" on their website. It ...

They had 600 corporate level employees for a chain of 130-ish stores?

That just seems ridiculous.

Heck...450 STILL seems ridiculous.

The Smith's in Magna is indeed a former Albertson's location (I matched address with some old directory information in Google). The building's facade matches the facades of the Albertson's we had in Des Moines for about five minutes. The former Smith's location up the street was being at least parti...