Retail Watchers

The developer is the former Raising Canes franchisee who developed out all of Nevada and Arizona for Raising Canes. These guys are very strong operators and their ability to build those two states out for Raising Canes, become the largest franchisee, then sell the u units all to corporate was quite...

There is construction in Reno on North Virginia between the 7-11 and Raising Canes. There is a coming soon Ruby's sign with the logo of the SoCal chain, and a permit that says this will be "Rubys Shake Shack." This is near a bunch of miserably institutional looking student housing. This s...

It would be interesting to see if this is true, but nothing posted on the ALDI jobs site for NorCal… yet. However, it wouldn’t be shocking to see them coming with a division up here.

In what is probably not a surprise to many of us who follow Cracker Barrel on the West Coast, Cracker Barrel has closed its last remaining Oregon location in Medford: https://kobi5.com/news/medford-cracker-barrel-closes-permanently-225996/ Mom and I were there in October, and the place was dead. It’...

I vaguely remember that whole situation. I think Burlington opened first. I don't expect Burlington to relocate/return to Carson. Really?? They aren't closing the store to relocate. I figured they were probably relocating to the former Bed Bath and Beyond on Topsy because Burlington has been doing ...

I seem to recall the tear down being part of the garden center and the old auto repair area then some way to make the building flow without those? Wasn't Burlington open before that point? Burlington is in a pathetic state. So much sales floor blocked off. Tired looking store there in Carson like t...

There is a weird Ross next to this store. The weird Ross sits in small tenant/strip mall space. It is not in anchor space. It is very small/shallow. Ross moved from a store that was a full size mid 90's Ross one building and to the left of the Carson Target because that center had so little traffic...

Didn't see this coming but maybe it is not so surprising. Burlington seems to be having some issues. They keep blocking off more and more of their sales floors. I've left single items I wanted to buy multiple times in Reno due to the terrible checkout situation. The past couple times in Reno they d...

Burlington is closing their Carson City, NV location on 4/19 due to “lease issues.” This was a former division 1 Walmart divided between Burlington and what was to be a Sportsman’s Warehouse (before their bankruptcy). Instead, the Sportsman’s box got divided between Big Lots and Big 5, with Burlingt...

Save Mart retreating from Reno would not be a bad idea. Divest what the can to Safeway and pull out. Safeway would have to figure out what to do with the Sparks and Carson FoodMaxx locations, and the West Reno Save Mart. Rest of the stores are far enough from a Safeway it wouldn’t matter. That bein...