Retail Watchers

Given their history of scandals and dated not so healthful food, I would love them to just disappear. Sounds like a typical chain business; scandals and controversial quality of products. No different than Denny's in the early 90's. Depends on the scandal and if that "scandal" is typical ...

I've always wondered home much money Cracker Barrel makes off of the "store" area that you have to wade through to get to the entrance to the dining room. It seems that family restaurants have gum, mints, candy and maybe some touristy type city name merchandise at their checkout but nothi...

Dollar Tree is trying to purchase 58 leases. 37 in CA. Includes Reno and Carson City in my area. Dollar Tree can't run the stores they have here, don't know why they think it is a good idea to add any more. Terrible operator. Ugh. Couldn't it be something better- anything better? Seems there is alw...

I can only report what I see around me, however myopic it may be.

Since I do not travel pass a certain radius for food purchasing I understand my perspective is quite narrow.

I visited that HMart in Mira Mesa. 🤢🤢🤮🤮 It confirmed all my biases about markets in this category. 🤷‍♂️ As I've brought up before, I think any biases you might have about Hispanic oriented markets would be destroyed by that Costa Mesa Northgate. Even now it is still incredibly busy, and a heck of a...

Somehow I missed that change. What year was that? The Safeway there was a good size (I shopped there quite often). Well run store for sure and extremely busy. It is curious that they changed it to Pavilions Place, since it is was not a small store. :? All former Safeway's that were canidates for Pa...

Somehow I missed that change. What year was that?

The Safeway there was a good size (I shopped there quite often). Well run store for sure and extremely busy. It is curious that they changed it to Pavilions Place, since it is was not a small store.

Update:

The "remodel" was only two new or refurbished refregeration cases, that's it

The whole side western parking lot was roped off for 2 months for THIS? Tiny tiny tiny parking lot to begin with

Not even paint in or out...............................GEESH!

Pavilions Place came into existence with Vons purchase of Safeway in the 80's. They rebranded the smaller Safeway (and Pantry) stores in affluent areas to Pavilions Place since they could not fit all of the amenities the large Pavilions carried. They were basically a small format Pavilions with a l...

Side note:

F&E had a private label named Eatwell.

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