Retail Watchers

Last night I was at the Longview Fred Meyer for a regular shopping trip. This store was remodeled in 2018, and as I shopped, I was thinking that it does not seem to be aging well. The wall colors and the rounded font of the letters were ugly then and are ugly now. The floors have lost the shine they...

SuperS, was that Sears relocated from the mall that used to stand where the Pocatello Fred Meyer now is? I think that Sears may have been relocated after Pine Ridge Mall was established (similar to the Idaho Falls move from Country Club Mall) but am not sure. It is interesting how times have change...

The problem with many stores in today's outlet malls is that they are often just a regular store with the word "outlet" slapped on the outside with no difference in pricing or quality. Once they lose the concept of "outlet" people shop elsewhere.

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 ...