Retail Watchers

Kroger recently (within the last week) rolled out delivery with Harris Teeter (part of Ocado) in the Washington DC area. Really begs the question why they're investing in this if they basically want to discard Harris Teeter in the area anyway. (Unless the merger falls through, of course, then it's ...

https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/kroger-breaks-ground-first-marketplace-store Interestingly being touted as the "first" Kroger Marketplace, despite the concept having existed since 2004 (and earlier at Smitty's and Fry's), this is a previously-announced store in Plano, Tex...

Not a bug per se, but I find the new design (animated board links) to perform rather slowly.

cw06 wrote: ↑September 12th, 2023, 5:46 am Harris Teeter isn't unionized, so swapping banners with Safeway wouldn't be easy. Kroger has "deunionized" stores in the past by giving them to HT, but there's too much regulatory scrutiny of this merger to do that here.

Funny thing as the opposite happened in the Nashville market.

Guam Kmart has sold its pharmacy to something called "Super Drug." The pharmacy is remaining inside the store. Also it appears "Super Drug" is owned by the Pay Less Foods chain in Guam. Also the Pay Less Foods Chain in Guam has a little 3k square foot natural foods store called ...

Their Facebook page made it look like they were steadily receiving merchandise. https://www.facebook.com/westwood3202/ I guess they needed to receive items to have a successful liquidation sale. So basically after this just that NY Kmart is left as far as full size US units go. Guam Kmart- we will ...

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