Retail Watchers

TL;DR: A new low cost private label brand ('Deal Worthy'. I guess they forgot about 'Smartly') and more $1 items. Target has a plan to take down Dollar General and Walmart By Daniel Kline TheStreet Updated February 17, 2024 8:29 AM Target and its customers have always sort of held their noses up whe...

ShopRite stores seem to have a kiosk by Customer Service where I'm assuming the less tech-savvy folks can get assistance with loading coupons to their account (probably still an occasional nightmare for staff to deal with, but better than nothing). Do other chains have such things? Here's an article...

I also find it ironic these fast foods used to use almost exclusively paper cups. The plastic cups are recent within the past few years. That was a result of the plastic bag bans, increased demand for paper bags, and price being driven up on paper cups. So places switched to plastic cups. McDonalds...

There is definite movement from PA out to the west coast for products including perishables. I have also seen signs of west coast products being stocked back in PA such as It's It Ice Cream Bars (a product difficult to find outside Northern California). Funny you mention ice cream as I occasionally...

Amazing just how many people seem to not be able to understand that and just want to say that it is an expensive store, ignoring the good deals that exist in the "regular" parts of the store :) Even in HABA, their prices are very, very good. The store brand stuff (supplied by Topco under ...

storewanderer wrote: ↑February 14th, 2024, 12:32 am What prices have you seen them reduce?

I'm not sure as I very rarely shop there. Honestly their regular grocery prices have always been pretty decent, especially on store branded items. It's all the prepared food and other fancier items that are, IMO, horribly overpriced.

They need to check out McBroken and ID the "bad" franchisees that way. I'm dead serious--the milkshake machine's current operations is an excellent indicator of the restaurant as a whole. To be fair, the ice cream machines McDonald's uses (Taylor) are horribly unreliable and require a pai...

They restructured regional management last week. Consolidated districts, laid off people no longer needed due to having fewer stores, etc. It "feels" like they are trying to normalize their go forward operation. It does not feel to me like they are about to liquidate. The same could be sa...

I've noticed a recent Wegmans Ad airing mentioning that inflation is going down really touting their commitment to low prices. I tried searching for it online but nobody seems to have it posted anywhere.

I wonder if they're just a little over-expanded on the west coast--leading to not enough bargains and specials popping up to keep their channels full. Perhaps a more even distribution of locations (including expansion into NY/New England) will assist them with perishable closeouts (closer to manufa...