Retail Watchers

If employees are being beaten up, employees should be allowed to defend themselves and fight back. Most of the time if an employee lays a hand on a customer they are terminated. There is no flexibility. The reason as to why is because there's so much bad press in fighting back against customers and...

I believe Southwest (of which El Paso was, but they're on slightly different programs) was mostly branded as Osco. I think that Shaw's got Osco as well but ACME and South got Sav-on (not sure on Rocky Mountain). When LLC took over, they stopped advertising it with the co-brands and eventually took d...

3. What is different about giving an under 5 year old the COVID vaccine vs. giving one to, say, a 7 year old? The physiology of children changes substantially in their early years, even more so than teenagers. There's real mental and physical changes between an 18-year-old and a 15-year-old (not ta...

It was over 100 degrees today in many parts of Northern California. The stores seems to be skimping on the air conditioning. It was almost uncomfortably warm at Walmart and some malls seemed to be stuffy as well. Is everyone cutting costs now? It was very unpleasant trying to shop under these condi...

There are labor academics like Nelson Lichtenstein, as well as journalists who have been been tracking Walmart's hiring practices for many years. Lichtenstein follows more than Walmart and is writing a book on the recent evolution of retail. As for initiative, I wouldn't consider "making your ...

Nothing really surprising here. Walmart has continually cut back on management and made relatively extreme use of scheduling software for decades. The supply chain disruptions and the increasing transition to online ordering/store pick-up taxed the system. I 've been wondering what would break thei...

This article that was posted strongly suggests that ABS wants to pull a Seritage and spin off a lot of real estate it owns. It's probably not as desperate-looking as Seritage but I can see "Albertage" just a way of shuffling assets around to make the bottom line look better. Unlike Serita...

One of the effects of COVID is the slowness of some fast food operators to re-open their dining rooms! I'll be honest, I'm put off if I am forced to use a drive-thru as often there are long lines. Once you are in, you're stuck! Some places do let you in for a "to go" order, so that is sli...

This article that was posted strongly suggests that ABS wants to pull a Seritage and spin off a lot of real estate it owns. It's probably not as desperate-looking as Seritage but I can see "Albertage" just a way of shuffling assets around to make the bottom line look better. Unlike Seritag...

I HOPE the NLRB DEEPLY investigates this!!!! :evil: :evil: To do what? Waste Starbucks' time on the taxpayer dime? The grease trap was broken...there's no mysterious unexplained "plumbing issues", no one is debating that. Not batting an eye on a chain that sometimes does culling on underp...