Retail Watchers

Jack In The Box had kiosks in their San Francisco Bay Area stores up until around 2016 or so. Customers hated them. Nobody used them. They didn't take cash, and it was complicated to order. Most of the time it was so frustrating that you would just order the bare minimum and pay. Ordering with a ca...

Interesting story: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/04/fred-meyer-albertsons-internal-documents-show-fierce-competition-in-portland-before-merger-talks-we-must-stay-hungry.html Fred Meyer, Albertsons internal documents show fierce competition in Portland before merger talks: ‘We must stay h...

More closures today on the bankruptcy docket. 17 stores. Most in CA/PA. Still no more in OR/WA. I think OR/WA have been spoken for in their current form. Also hearing multiple stores are getting told they are closing this week... which are not on any lists yet (I guess we will see those on a list n...

Interesting story: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/04/fred-meyer-albertsons-internal-documents-show-fierce-competition-in-portland-before-merger-talks-we-must-stay-hungry.html Fred Meyer, Albertsons internal documents show fierce competition in Portland before merger talks: ‘We must stay hu...

It's not as clear from the desktop website, but MoC has updated their logo and font families to reflect some of their new movements in "local" food and branding. They definitely are branding the "Oregon-ness" so clearly not moving into SW Washington state (or elsewhere) soon. Fr...

The Home Depot in Tigard, Oregon went 100% self-checkout in the main part of the store. Pro is still staffed. Is this a test or a chain-wide trend? This is just an equipment change, and implementation of a complicated strategy that they call Assisted Checkout which is not quite self service but not...

Alpha8472 wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 5:37 pm 65,000 square feet of selling space in a 120,000 square foot 2 level anchor space formerly Lord and Taylor.

https://chainstoreage.com/first-look-jc ... ight-years

If all JCPenney stores looked like this, they might be doing better. They're buildings are so rundown.

The Home Depot in Tigard, Oregon went 100% self-checkout in the main part of the store. Pro is still staffed. Is this a test or a chain-wide trend?

I liked the puppets better. Those were at least memorable and fun to watch.

It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. https://kmph.com/news/local/fast-food-workers-blindsided-by-sudden-closure-of-fosters-freeze-in-lemoore Questionable what the cause of this is since it is a string of locations many outside CA. Not surprised MOD is closing units. MOD overexpanded a...