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- Yesterday, 10:51 pm
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Daiso to open in Vancouver, WA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 118
Re: Daiso to open in Vancouver, WA
Sounds like they sell the same crap as Five Below or the Dollar stores…only in an Asian style. They're a little different. Very little food and no cleaning or paper product type items. Over the years more and more of their product is from China but they say it is "Japan Quality." Their st...
- Yesterday, 10:27 pm
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: Pavilions - Pasadena, CA
- Replies: 16
- Views: 502
Re: Pavilions - Pasadena, CA
Somehow I missed that change. What year was that? The Safeway there was a good size (I shopped there quite often). Well run store for sure and extremely busy. It is curious that they changed it to Pavilions Place, since it is was not a small store. :? If I recall correctly, Pavilions started out at...
- Yesterday, 10:06 am
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
- Replies: 481
- Views: 33169
Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Meanwhile one could make the argument that Kroger's continued growth of large marketplace stores is really a invasion of Target and Walmart's segments. That does add complexity because the feds don't view things that way. So the feds just see conventional supermarket industry players and share, the...
- Yesterday, 9:39 am
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Five Below - Self Checkout Not Allowed
- Replies: 2
- Views: 193
Re: Five Below - Self Checkout Not Allowed
Five Below was growing exponentially until inflation hit and clobbered the dollar store industry. I have not seen a new store open in a while. I think the inflation issue along with the failure of all self checkout clobbered them, and the prospects of having to increase payroll spending by returning...
- Yesterday, 9:29 am
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: Pavilions - Pasadena, CA
- Replies: 16
- Views: 502
Re: Pavilions - Pasadena, CA
Somehow I missed that change. What year was that? The Safeway there was a good size (I shopped there quite often). Well run store for sure and extremely busy. It is curious that they changed it to Pavilions Place, since it is was not a small store. :? If I recall correctly, Pavilions started out at...
- May 15th, 2024, 7:22 pm
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Costco Door Scanning Rolling Out
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1027
Re: Costco Door Scanning Rolling Out
Thought I should update here. I have been to the Morena store a few more times since this started (store is the oldest in the company, also division office in the back for all of the Southwest). The first few times they were asking the customer to scan their card and pointing at the scanner but if s...
- May 15th, 2024, 6:53 pm
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Barnes and Noble new stores
- Replies: 17
- Views: 710
Re: Barnes and Noble new stores
They opened a small format in Burlingame earlier this year in an old Amazon 5 Star space. I think it’s about 4,000 sq ft and they did quite a bit of work converting it. Shame they didn’t wait, the Banana Republic and Pottery Barn next door closed shortly after (although both have giant “LEASED” sig...
- May 15th, 2024, 6:24 pm
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: New Temecula Smart & Final
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1213
Re: New Temecula Smart & Final
At least it has self checkout? I have yet to encounter a SoCal unit with self checkout... only seen that in the midwest so far. And where I saw it there was obviously older/mature locations. I find it interesting they are adding self checkout to established locations in the midwest, but not quickly...
- May 15th, 2024, 5:18 pm
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: Amazon Fresh, take 2
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6558
Re: Amazon Fresh, take 2
They apparently are still building in Fountain Valley. I don't think that ever stopped, as the announcement and groundbreaking all started after they had officially mothballed the new stores and canceled some sites. Every time I go into one I leave questioning myself (why did I think this would be a...
- May 15th, 2024, 5:03 pm
- Forum: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores
- Replies: 1614
- Views: 157443
Re: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores
That answers my question, but I would not be surprised if the inventory management is making the problems even worse. The automatic replenishment systems used by these chains are so dependent on sales history that even if they are back in stock at the warehouse on all items they would likely fail t...