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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.

https://freshneasybuzz.blogspot.com/201 ... rhood.html

Alpha8472 wrote: ↑May 13th, 2024, 7:12 pm Employees at the first unionized Apple store vote to ok a strike.

https://chainstoreage.com/employees-fir ... ote-strike

YAY!!!!!!

biggins wrote: ↑May 13th, 2024, 11:04 am Construction is well underway - snapped this photo during a quick in/out visit yesterday. Old Navy and Five Below going into spaces on the right in this photo.

The shape looks really cool.

Perhaps inspired by Mid Century Modern.

What do you mean by allowed? That is a state lawsuit, the DOJ can't stop or control it in any way. Colorado probably wanted to file their own lawsuit because they are concerned the federal government might want to settle the case, and they don't want to have to go along with it. Wasn't there some m...

What ever happened to Coffee Bean? There used to many inside of Ralphs and a few in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now they seemed to have disappeared from Northern California. Are there a lot still in Southern California? I always thought of Coffee Bean as having a smaller menu than Starbucks. There'...

The Harris Teeter program "Fresh Foods Market" looked a lot better than Home Chef... tasted better at Harris Teeter too (not excellent, but better). The Safeway Ready Meals program doesn't look any better than Home Chef but it has way more SKUs and appears to have far more waste. Then aga...

I think this is the tip of the iceberg, not necessarily for WS but the entire industry especially in the last few years. The mad scramble for materials after all the supply chain crises, port backups, etc. has surely caused many more labeling issues. Much easier for crooked suppliers to falsely sta...

Never see any traffic in their Sephora shops. Of course I am perhaps blind and am missing out on the big crowds that supposedly exist. The busiest area at Kohls is the Amazon counter. Second is Sephora. Now having said that, the Sephora's I have seen usually have 3-4 customers, about equal to the n...