Retail Watchers

Starbucks has too many locations, which will allow them to slaughter these unionized stores. They will give some kind of concessions which lead to the destruction of the stores. Something like "hey, you all keep whining about too many mobile orders so we've agreed to turn that feature off at yo...

Kmart in Grass Valley closes its doors tomorrow: https://www.theunion.com/news/grass-valley-kmart-to-close-sunday/ Yes, the store was largely empty on Saturday. Some clothes left, little else. They worked very hard to take the store apart and ship the shelves out. Some fixtures were sold but basica...

Wow, these leases! ...40 years out of its 75-year lease at that point. The remaining 35 years, plus an additional 20 years, would be assigned to Target, he said. That's really odd that it would be so long. Nobody issues a 75 year lease... Unless Crazy Eddie Lampert had bought the building and lease...

The Ultra Premium "Pavilions" decor being introduced into Northern California is being done very thoroughly. The stores are getting new floors, new refrigerator cases, new checkstands, and new ceiling tiles. It looks so much better than the Florida decor. Perhaps the Pavilions decor will ...

Speedway by me still had Speedy Freeze for 89 cents any size a couple days ago. No rebranding

Let's move back to the original topic of Mall 205.... Yes, Please keep this on-topic. In a roundabout way I think we have done that. Target of old would likely work to rebuild into a standard prototype like they did in Jantzen Beach. Target of today doesn't care about consistency of facilities. So ...

I have witnessed this type of behavior at many companies! I have also been told about this by close friends and family. Very prevalent with mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, downsizings, etc. The Store Manager I hired had been there for decades. He was bluntly told by his outgoing District Ma...

A Safeway in Pleasant Hill, California which has not been remodeled since about 2004, got new parking lot lighting. It is worse than before. The new LED lighting is dim and deep purple. You can barely see anything in the parking lot now. Supposedly the lights get brighter for a few seconds if they ...

I would imagine that separate home store locations for Macy (and anyone else) will gradually go away. When Bloomingdales replaced their enormous White Flint store with a smaller one in Friendship Heights (about 10 years ago), furniture was the main thing to go and it had been drawing very few custo...

CVS managers still seem to have a lot of autonomy. The two 24 hour stores near me have very different selections of things like junk food and seasonal items and it doesn't seem to be a matter of space---one is bigger than the other but the aisle space for those items is about the same. The smaller ...