Retail Watchers

My only prediction is more obvious, Meijer is Michigan-based and has been in the Detroit area for much of its existence, therefore they understand the city and can adapt to marketing well. Kroger has run inner city stores for decades in other cities. It reflects more on their regional management. K...

Early November closure, “operational efficiencies” stated as the reason. Looking at the map it seems that this store is about a mile north of an Albertsons (with a Colorful Lifestyle interior) and about 2 miles away from another Albertsons (with the LLC decor). Albertsons / Safeway have been slowly...

Pretty long run for a CEO of a retail company these days. COO and president of the board is succeeding so not too much excitement around there. CNN Money: Costco CEO steps down I've noticed a gradual, but steady, downhill slide in Costco's operation since he became CEO. I doubt much will change but...

Report says that the proposed divestitures should be fine with FTC based upon past precedent: https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/kroger-albertsons-merger-should-be-safe-divestiture-report I hope that regulators know that if this is approved they'll be sitting on 100 - 120 dark boxes in...

I'm somewhat surprised at the lack of divestitures in the Washington, DC region. Safeway is by far the stronger brand when compared to Harris Teeter - frankly, HT's entire operation in the region seems disheveled when compared to its operation in the Carolinas. I felt the same way about HT stores i...

Not to go too far down a rabbit hole here off topic but I was surprised that King's / Balducci's was not sold to C&S. That seemed like more of a non-core entity that also overlapped with Acme / Safeway / Harris Teeter in that same region.

This is such a joke. I think I can go with the idea of QFC brand being used on 150 stores in OR/WA. It might work. Getting the Carr's brand okay. That is great. In Alaska. 14 stores. Okay. And now back to this thing of the Albertsons banner having two operators again. Really? But with Supervalu/LLC...

I'd assume Grand Union will be the name used for these stores.

OMG....................and Holy Cxxx! And perhaps 237 more stores. Looks like CLOWN was spot on again. I wonder if Pavilions in West Hollywood will be Pavilions by Ralphs, Pavilions by Kroger or Ralphs Fresh Fare. And what will the eventually merged company do with all the Ralphs in my area that lo...

Most of the Arizona sites are branded Safeway. Outside of Phoenix and Tucson, Albertsons is nonexistent. Plus the whole Safeway union/Albertsons nonunion situation in Arizona. There are 30 Albertsons stores currently in Arizona. My guess is that 24 of them get sold to C&S and 6 become either Fr...