Retail Watchers

It will be interesting to see how this advances the Bloom and Bottom Dollar conversion programs. Bloom doesn't really impress me that much; it's pretty much Food Lion with slightly nicer decor and lots of electronic gimmicks. But the newest Bottom Dollar stores (as opposed to the initial bunch) are ...

I spoke with a friend at the Chain Not Currently Known By Most People As FedEx Office™ yesterday, and he had no insight on the signs, but did say that many of the remaining 24-hour stores are now losing their overnight shifts.

I have seen many FedEx Kinko's still with the FedEx Kinko's signs. That was sort of the point. I don't think I've seen any stores that didn't still have FedEx Kinko's signs, despite the "name change" ten months back. I'm sort of wondering if they're even going to make it to the sign repla...

Even though FedEx Kinko's was renamed FedEx Office almost a year ago, it seems like not a single sign on a single store has been changed. Does anyone else think this may not bode well for the company?

Alpha8472 wrote:In the San Francisco Bay Area, there are no Dunkin Donuts that I know of.

The only one I knew of in my many years there was in San Jose, and it closed about ten years ago.

Whole Foods is taking over a space in Noe Valley vacated by the closing of one of Kroger's last remaining Cala/Bell stores, boosting them to four locations in SF proper with one more definitely on the way and another under consideration. That's a pretty major presence for a chain usually regarded as...