@ClownLoach did you see this story in the LA Times yesterday? I feel like you conjured it.
https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2024 ... mmigration
The publicity certainly won't help with the crowds, but word definitely seems to be spreading.
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- February 28th, 2024, 1:20 pm
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: Mercado Gonzalez Northgate opening, "Wegmans" or "Bristol Farms" of Hispanic grocery stores
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3732
- December 11th, 2023, 2:06 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: 'Target CEO claims customers are saying ‘a big thank you’ for locking up merchandise'
- Replies: 89
- Views: 5196
Re: 'Target CEO claims customers are saying ‘a big thank you’ for locking up merchandise'
Just wanted to comment on the Drive-up issue. I bounce between Target's Manhattan Beach (remodeled Greatland with Ulta) and Torrance (odd wide and shallow layout, but two entrances. I'm guessing it opened as a Greatland? No ulta but expanded beauty). I also visit the Encinitas El Camino Real store w...
- November 9th, 2023, 6:03 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Macy's Opening 30 Small Format Off Mall Stores
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2370
Re: Macy's Opening 30 Small Format Off Mall Stores
That is very bad. I shop markdowns for certain types of merchandise (bagged salad for one, some dairy items), won't touch them for some other things (like any bread product and generally meat), but I never expect a markdown. If I find a markdown great, if not then oh well. I recall hearing F&E ...
- August 2nd, 2023, 5:41 pm
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger paying for licensed music in ads...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1009
Re: Kroger paying for licensed music in ads...
I think that including familiar, catchy songs is core to Kroger's current Kroji ad strategy. So music licensing is probably built into the budget -- they also save a bunch on human actors since everything is animated. [Small voice] I must admit that I find some of the Kroger ads amusing / catchy. Be...
- June 29th, 2023, 4:08 pm
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Costco cracking down on card sharing
- Replies: 86
- Views: 6765
Re: Costco cracking down on card sharing
This is a fascinatedly relatable thread. Two weeks ago I was visiting my parents and stopped in at the Carlsbad, CA Costco with my mother. She is a total shopaholic and a huge Costco fan -- she often refers to her "Personal Chef named Costco" and spends tons of unnecessary money there. (Sh...
- May 16th, 2023, 5:48 pm
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: Amazon Halts All New Amazon Fresh Just Walk Out Stores
- Replies: 303
- Views: 31208
Re: Amazon Halts All New Amazon Fresh Just Walk Out Stores
Anyone else see the puff piece in the WSJ about Amazon's grocery business? An excerpt: Amazon has been dabbling in the grocery business for years. It launched its first grocery storefront on its website in 2006 and bought Whole Foods Market for $13.1 billion 11 years later. Soon after, Amazon began ...
- April 28th, 2023, 3:28 pm
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Long John Silver's Adds The Cheescake Factory Cheesecake
- Replies: 4
- Views: 603
Re: Long John Silver's Adds The Cheescake Factory Cheesecake
I was in Ralph's today and they are charging $6.49 for one of these relatively small slices
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- April 25th, 2023, 4:43 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Target 2022
- Replies: 139
- Views: 18398
Re: Target 2022
I don't believe so – there is a WM Neighborhood market a couple blocks west at Rosecrans and Inglewood. Still open I believe. The Target was previously a BigSaver hispanic market.ClownLoach wrote: ↑April 25th, 2023, 12:47 am Wasn't Rosecrans and Hawthorne a closed Walmart Neighborhood market?
- April 24th, 2023, 1:31 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Target 2022
- Replies: 139
- Views: 18398
Re: Target 2022
The Westchester LAX small format Target is a disaster. My office is near there and that Sepulveda corridor in Westchester near LAX can be a bit sketchy, but it seems like all of the sketchiness convenes at the Target. It really damages the brand. Even worse is the small format nearby in Lawndale at ...
- March 9th, 2023, 1:42 pm
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: Albertsons Cos Advertising
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4948
Re: Albertsons Cos Advertising
I thought "VONS is VALUE" was their strongest slogan by far. Short, to the point, and rolled off the tongue nicely. That was back in the mid-late '90s, I believe. Of course, they couldn't use that slogan today, as it's just not true.
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