Retail Watchers

Is the (relocated from Roseville) Rocklin store busy enough to justify another location this close to it? Seems kinda weird that they’d build one this close, even though it is up 65 and not 80.

Almost all of the retailers, from Walmart to the privately-owned H-E-B cut hours permanently after COVID. Heck, Kroger was cutting back some of its 24 hour stores in 2019. Yes, but Kroger has been expanding those hours for the last couple years. Albertsons has not. Except in NorCal Safeway division...

Smiths has started remodeling in Carson City, NV. So far they are off to a bang. They seem to be keeping the old tan/brown shelves from when the store opened. In the late 1980's. I really hate the way those shelves look. They should all be replaced. The Sparks Smiths had a lot of those until its la...

I'm pretty sure everyone in Utah has some vomitous variation on the Chuck-a-Rama name (In our family it was "Upchuck-a-Rama", my wife called it the "Barf-o-Rama") but the same is probably true for a lot of buffet places. What’s funny is that my family loves “Upchuck-a-Rama”! We ...

I still wonder how Fred Meyer / Ralph’s / Fry’s / Smith’s would have done as a stand-alone company versus the Kroger merger, and how much different the grocery retail scene would look today given what others have mentioned about Ralph’s volume. I’m guessing the Fred Meyer experiment in California wo...

Saw this out on Loopnet, which matches rumors going around town about Sprouts expanding from their three Reno locations, adding a location in Carson City: https://www.loopnet.com/viewer/pdf?file=https%3a%2f%2fimages1.loopnet.com%2fd2%2fuTSHsg3KFsmAfQQAgqMA_mvdA1ru0wW5LOZoPh8cLEk%2fNorth%2520Carson%...

Saw this out on Loopnet, which matches rumors going around town about Sprouts expanding from their three Reno locations, adding a location in Carson City: https://www.loopnet.com/viewer/pdf?file=https%3a%2f%2fimages1.loopnet.com%2fd2%2fuTSHsg3KFsmAfQQAgqMA_mvdA1ru0wW5LOZoPh8cLEk%2fNorth%2520Carson%2...

I wish I could turn back time and have had Longs Drugs take over some of the Rite Aid locations on the West Coast, instead of merging with CVS. While I've had awesome care the three times I've used a MinuteClinic (twice for COVID testing), their pharmacies leave a lot to be desired. Unfortunately, f...

I'm starting to wonder about CVS though. There sure are a lot of cracks showing right now. They seem to be starting to experience the same problems as Walgreens and Rite Aid. It's catching up to them. Reading that the moribund Albertsons pharmacy operation is up 30% is very telling. And I just saw ...

When an item scans on the POS "item cannot be sold" or "recalled item" or similar - the employee needs to understand and not sell the item. I had this with Wal Mart on some clearance candles not long ago. They scanned on the app at $1 but when I paid they would not scan. Message...