Retail Watchers

I am wondering if Google Reviews are an indicator of how a store is performing?? Does the Best Buy in Park City having only 735 reviews versus the average store having about 2,000 reviews indicate that store's underperformance. Or OfficeMax in Tupelo, Mississippi only having 126 reviews despite bei...

I made only a couple visits to the Irvine El Torito Grill, as there was no free parking. One visit was after they first opened. I recall that much of the menu overlapped with El Torito. For example, the Sizzlin’ Fajita was identical but priced a couple dollars more. They had steak fajitas made with...

I think the liquidation has been very successful. Many of the SoCal stores have only general merchandise remaining, with everything left marked 80% off. I don’t think the general merchandise was ever a hit…. 50-80% off sales were fairly common. This stuff was added in the last few years - high marg...

A former Rite Aid in Vancouver, WA may soon become an In-N-Out: https://www.kptv.com/2024/04/24/in-n-out-seeks-out-second-spot-sw-washington/ It will be interesting to see how much further north they expand. Seems like they would do well with areas such as Woodland, Kelso, and Chehalis where there ...

Too bad I do not see all that in my shopping radius and of course I and many others are not going to take a chance and travel to find out if it is true (for food purposes). I would agree with that statement in that their newer stores are still in suburban areas. The more urban areas are older store...

If C&S is actually serious about owning and operating their own supermarkets, as I think I saw on a different thread, maybe they should bring Bob Mariano? He would know how to operate a Haggen. Plus he could improve QFC. While Carrs is basically a Safeway, his expertise wouldn't hurt! Also nobo...

Many of their closures have been small markets in the Pacific NW that probably date back to when they bought Best. I'd imagine these either had cheap long-term leases or were owned by them but never generated much volume. The Best stores were only in Seattle with one store in Portland. They may hav...

I have to back pesudo3d up on this. The local rags have already paraded around this data and will likely have some trickle-down influence. Target has also built some large stores like Katy and New Caney, which have been lauded as being "huge" when, in reality, they're smaller than our exi...

The NYC store is a very odd location, but it would be difficult for them to locate where their customers are. The high end retail has migrated to a stretch of Madison Avenue that is perfect for boutiques and full line men's or women's retailers but not for even a modestly large store. The high end ...

To be fair most Asian grocers are a messy hodgepodge of whatever they think people may buy too... it is usually difficult to find items and this includes the chains especially 99 Ranch, SF Supermarket, and some H Marts everything is just thrown around. There are obviously no planograms. Seafood Cit...