Outsourcing the Rx might make more sense--it's not the profit center or traffic draw it once was and Walgreen could supply it more efficiently. OTOH, Walgreen private label health and beauty allows Kroger to have more private label merchandise in this part of the store.

It's been a while since I've been in NoVa after midnight but I doubt that they are losing many customers. The other DC area chains have cut back on 24 hour stores over the past several years and there have never been that many and often they closed at midnight on weekends. I'm not a big fan of H-T, ...

Dillard may not do a lot of markdowns, but their profits have been halved in the last 5-10 years. They have a model that isn’t sustainable.I wouldn’t be surprised if Belks new owner will eventually acquire them—it would be like a replay of the merger with Mercantile, although there might be some eff...

Given Dillard's overall financial performance over quite a few years, I'd say Reno is an outlier. They have closed a lot of stores in other markets and have done particularly poorly in their more northerly markets. Their neglect has been much greater than Macy's--Its only in the last decade that the...

Dillard hasn't been benefiting from anything. Their sales did a little better in the last quarter they reported than the year before but have been flat or declining for years and their profits have been dropped sharply overtime. Their service has been non-existent for years and they rely a lot on ho...

Even when there was more oil money, I can't imagine Anchorage having the population base to support a Nordstrom well.

There malls are pretty uniform and have been since the wave of renovations they did to long neglected DeBartolo properties in the early 2000s.

Roz & Ali will be closing, too. The company has had an executive suite shakeup and needed a way to raise their stock price. The cheaper end of the market is probably oversaturated at this point and they reach a lot of the same demographic with their other chains.

"&pizza" is the DC equivalent. They have proliferated like crazy. The pizza itself isn't very good, but DC is a place where pizza has long been pretty bad--bland sauce, cheap toppings and a crust that gets rubbery if not eaten immediately. Blaze is in Pittsburgh and they seem marginally better than ...

Interesting that they remodeled the Rosslyn store. I wondered if it would survive as it hadn't super busy the couple times I was there. It also has an awkward layout. I don't recall all the specifics but it was clearly merchandised in an odd way when I was there before, perhaps reflecting their loca...