Retail Watchers

There is a weird Ross next to this store. The weird Ross sits in small tenant/strip mall space. It is not in anchor space. It is very small/shallow. Ross moved from a store that was a full size mid 90's Ross one building and to the left of the Carson Target because that center had so little traffic...

Didn't see this coming but maybe it is not so surprising. Burlington seems to be having some issues. They keep blocking off more and more of their sales floors. I've left single items I wanted to buy multiple times in Reno due to the terrible checkout situation. The past couple times in Reno they d...

Burlington is closing their Carson City, NV location on 4/19 due to “lease issues.” This was a former division 1 Walmart divided between Burlington and what was to be a Sportsman’s Warehouse (before their bankruptcy). Instead, the Sportsman’s box got divided between Big Lots and Big 5, with Burlingt...

Save Mart retreating from Reno would not be a bad idea. Divest what the can to Safeway and pull out. Safeway would have to figure out what to do with the Sparks and Carson FoodMaxx locations, and the West Reno Save Mart. Rest of the stores are far enough from a Safeway it wouldn’t matter. That bein...

Since the Placerville Walmart is not a Supercenter, I wonder if they would think about building a Neighborhood Market in the OfficeMax? I know the parking lot is kind of small for that use though. Rite Aid doesn't seem like a good fit for one. I know that they're closing the market in Granite Bay, s...

I went into the Carson Smith's on my lunch break the other day, and that store was nothing but a train wreck with the remodeling. Front end associates were extremely rude as they herded us like cattle to the self-checkouts. Plus, the store doesn't have many shopping carts - store manager said many w...

Given the delay I suspect the decor may be up in the air. I'm going to be curious what they do with this store. I am not sure it is larger than their current store. It is a much better location however. This was a loss for Save Mart. Also I heard the plans for redeveloping the current Safeway are s...

With talk of stores such as Costco and Sam's Club cracking down on membership sharing, I got to wondering about how big of an issue this is at Bi-Mart. They advertise a $5.00 Lifetime family membership, but the cards do not bear names and are a relatively thin card with a number that tends to wear ...

Seems to be quite a theme here of negative comments on in-stock conditions at Trader Joe's... And the other thing is due to the limited assortment if they are out of stock on something, there is often not another suitable alternative... Exactly! Isn't this a reflection of sorts on their corporate o...

In Sparks they removed the liquor alcove and put it approximately where the seasonal aisle in Carson was (opposite side of frozen). It will be interesting to see if they keep the liquor alcove in Carson City. With how they moved soda/water to the aisles in front of the alcove, in my opinion, it act...