Retail Watchers

Recently, it was reported that Garland-based El Rancho Supermercado has been sold to Heritage Grocers Group,a California-based company which owns several other Hispanic-oriented chains. News Article Additionally, a recent writeup on Houston Historic Retail indicates that Albertsons' private label pr...

Interesting punch to throw at WinCo. At least they are doing... something with those 2014 sites... I don't see Joe V's as a threat. They are very minimal in terms of peripheral departments, like a huge Aldi. There are only nine of them around Houston; for as many mainline HEB stores as they have, t...

I'm in the DFW market and have witnessed the chain's decline first hand. Up until the last few years, Tuesday Morning sourced the bulk of their inventory from actual closeout merchandise from other retailers, and much of it was very good quality. Each location had its own feel and the merchandise of...

So now Tom Thumb is entering Forney, another DFW suburb, which already has a Kroger Marketplace, a Brookshire, and a 120k square feet H-E-B undergoing construction (the Tom Thumb is only half the size at 62k square feet). Note that in the case of divestments there is no ready candidate to take it o...

In the South Division, there's a single generic "THANK YOU" bag that looks almost completely generic except the line about returning them to Randalls, Tom Thumb, or Albertsons, and a pretty paper bag with handles and all three names. In 2014, Safeway used one paper bag design for the enti...

H-E-B broke ground last week on its new Mansfield store at Broad & 287. At 118,000 SF, it looks to be of a similar size as the Plano and Frisco stores. This will fill a 40-mile gap between the Waxahachie and Burleson stores in serving the fringe of the southern DFW Metroplex. H-E-B breaks groun...

I think @wnetmacman has it right - it's been almost 20 years since the standalone Sav-On concept was divested. Since then, the Sav-On name has been slapped onto Albertson's stores but nothing distinguishes the Pharmacy otherwise. Probably Alberton's decided it was time to let sleeping dogs lie... d...

Looking at the Bed Bath and Beyond store locator, there are other stores along with Fairfax, VA that are no longer offering curbside and in store pickup. Included are Alexandria, VA (Richmond Hwy), Springfield, VA, South Riding (Dulles), VA, California, MD, Sterling, VA, Germantown, MD, Winchester,...

With this build, they are giving Reasor's (from Tulsa) a store to buy, with this Kroger/Albertsons megamerger going on. This store would be well outside their footprint though. It seems equally as plausible that this gets stuffed under the United brand or sold off to another regional player like Br...

Earlier this week, Macy's announced four additional store closures. I'm honestly surprised that there aren't more, as they still have quite a bit of low-hanging fruit. - Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 4005 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA (mall is under active redevelopment) - Foothills Mall, 215 E Foo...