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- Yesterday, 9:35 am
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: Ralphs Fresh Fare in West Hollywood
- Replies: 1
- Views: 86
Re: Ralphs Fresh Fare in West Hollywood
Update: The "remodel" was only two new or refurbished refregeration cases, that's it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The whole side western parking lot was roped off for 2 months for THIS? Tiny tiny tiny parking lot to begin with :x Not even paint in or out...............................GEESH! I'm seeing the...
- May 14th, 2024, 8:10 pm
- Forum: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores
- Replies: 1613
- Views: 157218
Re: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores
Based on my observations, no. The remaining stores are nowhere near "overwhelmed with customers". They are barely getting a trickle, and some of the customers are under the impression that the store is also going to close. Rite Aid doesn't sell anything unique, and I don't think they have...
- May 14th, 2024, 10:26 am
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: JCPenney Refresh
- Replies: 13
- Views: 442
Re: JCPenney Refresh
JCPenney is spending $1 Billion on store refreshes and remodels to improve their shopping experience according to Brookfield. I doubt any department store chain has made a comparable investment in years. Also doubt it will be enough to address all the deferred repairs. Nordstrom just remodeled its ...
- May 14th, 2024, 10:23 am
- Forum: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Brookfield: "Death of the mall was a myth"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 236
Re: Brookfield: "Death of the mall was a myth"
Despite the "we're working past the department stores" talk, there's a lot of things wrong with malls still. Most of the department store replacements aren't real replacements (often not connecting into the mall), unique specialty stores are almost extinct, and despite hopes that some mal...
- May 9th, 2024, 10:06 am
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Dutch Bros. To Offer Mobile Ordering For The First Time Amid Profits
- Replies: 18
- Views: 632
Re: Dutch Bros. To Offer Mobile Ordering For The First Time Amid Profits
I wonder how that will work given how little parking most of their sites have. I guess you get to sit in your car in a line that starts out in the street (hope you don't get hit idling in the street) and create exhaust for 20 minutes to claim your mobile order. But they're creaming Starbucks and th...
- May 9th, 2024, 10:04 am
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: Grocery Outlet-Inventory levels
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1873
Re: Grocery Outlet-Inventory levels
Grocery outlet has always been a treasure hunt store for me. You never know what you will find. I really enjoy walking through there and seeing all the failed products end up on the shelves there and shaking my head how those products made it past multiple rounds of review in each company. They have...
- May 9th, 2024, 10:02 am
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Kohl's To Open In-Store Babies R Us Shops
- Replies: 12
- Views: 544
Re: Kohl's To Open In-Store Babies R Us Shops
Never see any traffic in their Sephora shops. Of course I am perhaps blind and am missing out on the big crowds that supposedly exist. The busiest area at Kohls is the Amazon counter. Second is Sephora. Now having said that, the Sephora's I have seen usually have 3-4 customers, about equal to the n...
- April 29th, 2024, 3:25 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Nordstrom going to Private Equity?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1608
Re: Nordstrom going to Private Equity?
The reality is that their store real estate strategy changes after opening stores in the Northwest and California. Their original plan was to go into any mall that could support them. When they decided to go national, they changed their strategy to open only one or two large stores per market. That...
- April 28th, 2024, 9:18 am
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Nordstrom going to Private Equity?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1608
Re: Nordstrom going to Private Equity?
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...
- April 26th, 2024, 7:42 am
- Forum: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores
- Replies: 1613
- Views: 157218
Re: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores
They are now asking for an extension to July 31 to make decisions on lease rejections... This would imply they still plan to be in bankruptcy on July 31...? This is not looking good to me, a month ago it felt like they were making preparations to emerge soon... now I see stores with hardly any inve...