Retail Watchers

I've got very limited experience with Sheetz---was in Lorain County, Ohio a year ago December when a Sheetz opened up at Rt 58 and 2 in Amherst...they were running gas price promotions, and noticed they had multiple e-XX grades of gasoline (which we're not familiar with in Michigan). Gas prices were...

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/02/08/sheetz-rezoning-madison-heights-opposition/72525972007/ Fraser and Madison Heights are solidly middle class postwar second ring suburbs. Madison Heights (12 Mile Road) is bisected by I-75, Fraser does not have an interstate. Interesting that...

https://www.newspapers.com/article/detroit-free-press-kroger-buys-great-sco/25961537/ In the story there's a mention of Kroger "investing" in Michigan---in the mid 80s they had a big "do we stay or do we go" crisis in Michigan, the result of which (as I recall) was two-tier wage ...

Given the location (Banner Elk) I wonder if this isn't at a resort of some nature. Thought I'd heard in the last 6 months or so about DG moving into some of these type stores (where resort staff can do receiving/stocking) in state parks etc. Sizes appeared to be "only carryable" as the lar...

I find it odd that Puerto Rico McD's menu is connected to Mexico McD's menu. The cuisines are very different. Caribbean is highly Afro influenced where Mexico (including Central & S. America) is strongly Indigenous influenced. [/quote] Puerto Rico gets weird stuff all the time---the offshore ar...

This is a really interesting blog about retail banking and how it's changing. Interesting deep-dives into specific lines of business. The topics are things which we may do every day but never think about what's behind.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/

Did not know what you meant by Chaldean families but this article helped me understand. https://www.chaldeannews.com/features-1/2020/4/29/open-for-business I notice many of these stores I am looking at that are independents are selling Essential Everyday. Has it always been that way? I thought in t...

There's been an interesting migration of Aldi in the last 45-50 years in St. Louis (and I'm sure in the Benner Iowa/Illinois areas) from their original location (an example is a location on Manchester in Warson Woods which was Schnucks' first 10k sqft supermarket from 1950-ish. Aldi used this as one...

No, the building in front (facing Livernois) is a smaller business building (with the initial intention of keeping a streetscape with sidewalk access). Storefronts like a wig store, vacuum cleaner store (which recently closed), etc. Quite liable to be re-tenanted soon with more upscale stores Facing...