Retail Watchers

klkla wrote:

pseudo3d wrote:Kroger knows not to operate multiple brands in a single market.

With two notable exceptions:

Southern California: Ralphs / Food4Less
Washington State: QFC / Fred Meyer

Oregon: QFC (Portland metro) / Fred Meyer
Idaho: Fred Meyer / Smith's (Twin Falls, Idaho Falls)

The Village Markets to open in former Main Street Market Company experienced with operating in Colorado ski towns and holding on in Moab, Utah and Edwards, Colo. is going to re-open the Main St. Market in Ketchum, providing a competitor to the area's only grocer, Atkinson's Markets. Yes, there is o...

Tustin Safe LLC (I have no idea who this is) is bidding for the store on 17th street in Tustin, Doing a little internet digging, since 2012 Tustin Safe LLC is a Delaware LLC (big surprise :roll: ) and then a court document related to Haggen said that all correspondence for them should go to their c...

Bellas Market, Wellington sold
Ridleys is moving into Colorado with the purchase of a market supplied by Associated to a community a bit over 7,000 residents. The current owner has encountered financial difficulty, leading to empty shelves and troubles with merchandise, apparently.

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I happened to need to travel through Baker City, Oregon so I snapped some photos of the Haggen there. As I pointed out in a previous post, this store is newer and larger than the Safeway across the street. It will be interesting to see if Baker County can find another grocery tenant besides someone...

What a contrast these images present! I was in the "going concern" former Albertson's at the corner of Walnut and Barrows Rd. in Beaverton. The store was clean, well stocked and looked like business as usual. There were even a decent amount of customers. Upon leaving the area, I took Murra...

According to this article, locations will continue to increase through 2017. One thing of note, this location has many of the new Kroger touches but no beer/wine bar, probably due to the difficulties with alcohol service in Utah. Smith's Opens New Smith's Marketplace in Kaysville Kaysville is in Dav...

It looks like officials in Baker City, Oregon are courting Winco foods to take over the soon to close Haggen location there: http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Replace-Haggen I wish them the best of luck. Baker County has been flat in population for decades at just under 10,000 and I don't k...

The CarQuest on Powell Blvd. is now Advance and my radio station continues to run advertisements about "grand openings" of Advance stores so I think all the Portland, Ore. area stores are converting over to the corporate banner. Since they place a lot of radio advertising nationally, like ...