Retail Watchers

It is interesting how times have changed. That was actually a pretty nice mall when it opened. Back in the 1980s, my parents would often postpone shopping until we took a trip to the Pocatello area, which happened a few times a year. One huge reason was that Boise at the time (before 1988) did not h...

Daiso is opening in Hazel Dell:

https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/may ... azel-dell/

I think this is a former Tuesday Morning location.

It will be interesting to see if they expand south into the Portland area.

Construction of the Centralia WinCo is finally underway:

https://www.chronline.com/stories/const ... ent,340113

What in the world would they expand to? They seem to run a very standardized operation with stores that pretty much are all the same size, layout, assortment etc. They already have too much square footage even in their busiest stores, and I believe they could expand faster if they simply were willi...

I shopped at that Fry's a fair bit before they went downhill, I think the building and location would actually be a pretty good fit for a WinCo store. I know they have taken over big-box sized properties in the past (the Everett store, for example, was originally a HomeBase) and that one might be a...

There was also a period where Waremart, and later WinCo, carried Lucerne brand yogurt. Right up until WinCo started rolling out its own store brand.

You can find things at an Ace store that you can’t find at the Blue and Orange boxes. There is also more help there than the big boxes. Plus a lot of people prefer going to a smaller store than dealing with the hordes in the big box DIYs . I am going to agree to disagree. There should be a greater ...

The owner of the Yard Birds property is cleaning out what was left in the building and has invited the public to take what is left for free:

https://www.chronline.com/stories/yard- ... ree,339547

Given the relatively small size of some Subway locations, I could see some potentially converting to Baskin-Robbins. The layout of the counter space is somewhat similar, although coolers obviously would need to be swapped out. I can't see a Subway co-branding with Baskin-Robbins unless it is a large...

The Haggen name simply does not mean what it once did. The stores would be better off rebranding.