Retail Watchers

The hour cuts are more to combat homeless people loitering in the dining rooms than anything else. Other fast food places in the area are planning dining hour cuts during this summer. Proving my point. If the restaurants were busy the homeless wouldn't loiter there. I do not see homeless trying to ...

Jack in the Box in Fresno is reducing dining room hours beginning May 20th. They will be drive-thru only after 9pm. Sales must be way down. They had that new Smashed Jack which allegedly was selling well, and they were promoting the heck out of it. I looked up the cost of a double smashed jack comb...

I've started to carry more cash around due to all the credit card surcharging businesses I encounter now... didn't used to carry any and hate using cash. It is really bad in NV and parts of CA primarily around larger cities with independent restaurants. Don't notice much of it elsewhere yet. I noti...

https://cases.ra.kroll.com/99only/Home-DocketInfo Docket 352.... what is this? Never saw anything like this in the Rite Aid dockets. Stupidness. Someone just ranting. Any moron can send in anything to the court. Obviously a person who just pays someone else to handle his bookkeeping and doesn't und...

I am still not 100% convinced that the mix in every market is being reported accurately since the major revision. This could be intentional to throw off competitors who may be trying to make Real Estate decisions. I am not sold that 100% of California divestitures will be ACI stores (only Vons, Albe...

They're too close together though. I never realized how close. They're direct true overlaps and can't both be kept. Something odd about the Midway remodel like I said, maybe serious roof issue or something where they had to repair damage and that justified the "remodel" and "grand re...

Home Depot and Lowe's have decimated the nursery industry, and now they have horrible quality at horrible prices since they have a duopoly in many areas. There are still some chains left like Armstrong in SoCal but they have skewed to more premium quality plants that don't really compete with the o...

I went to check these San Diego stores today. First off Liberty Station has received light updates at some point including the rectangular aisle hangers which not all repaint lifestyle received. Lighting has been added to the entire store so it doesn't feel as dark and claustrophobic on the "a...

I know that my independent pharmacy (top rated in West Hollywood) struggles with reimbursements. He showed me the numbers. He is 1/4 of million dollars behind in reimbursements. Like WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Talk to your doctors about this. You will hear the same story but even higher $$$ dependi...

Back on topic, apparently one of the last key Ash family members was the COO and he passed away last year. I was not aware they had a large batch of closures a couple months ago. Although no articles have an exact financial explanation, because of the discussion of the death in the family I get the ...