Retail Watchers

Tyler, Texas' was in a strange shopping center from what I recall. Maybe years ago good trade, but didn't seem that way in 2016. But, by the main post office. :lol: Salt Lake City's Foothill Village is going through a change and renovation, I think. The Stein Mart went in where the last ZCMI II exis...

The Mother Store could maybe be saved by someone like this foundation: https://kemmerergazette.com/article/renovations-for-jc-penney-house A few years ago the foundation along with staff from Plano fixed up the James Cash Penney home that is in Kemmerer. Note, I don't know if this foundation would b...

Hi, I thought I'd give a platform for folks to discuss various operators and experiences. I am unfortunately in the Pacific Northwest so we have really boring operators for these stores... so much that I almost always bypass them if I'm in the car for a mainstream grocer or discounter. (but not drug...

Self service food bars and buffets were allowed to open in Utah again under updated phased guidelines, but based on all the restrictions, if I were a restaurant owner I would probably pay 1-2 people to operate and plate the servings and bring them to diners tables. Self-serve buffets can start up ag...

The regional tribal casino is serving a "buffet" of sorts with a plated menu that has some 'all you care to eat' options. It's a bit lengthy and with all kinds of different pricing so I'm going to include the link rather than outline it here.
Buffet - Plated Menu

So, it didn't seem like this worked for Stage by rebranding and retooling Stage's many stores with grand reopenings as Gordman's. Also, westerners have NO concept of what Belk is. I still remember seeing the 'Belk bowl' on TV and having to go search what in the heck Belk was. I guess of the three re...

Apparently this was "out!" with the changes in the executive suite. Summary: Rite Aid installed facial recognition cameras and software in Manhattan, Los Angeles, elsewhere... mostly in lower income neighborhoods. Supposedly these cameras would send alerts to loss prevention of similarly l...

Sun valley JCPenney is not going to close now.

Here is a run down of the approximately half of the stores that will be closing
https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/compa ... -the-list/

I had no idea ALDI was in so many places. My significant other watches this fellow "Afu" on YouTube.