Retail Watchers

https://news.yahoo.com/wawa-president-answers-urban-legend-004642614.html During a recent groundbreaking for a Wawa store in Dauphin County PA (an area that would be considered Sheetz territory), the CEO of Wawa was asked about the so-called "Gentlemen's agreement" that allegedly keeps th...

Many retailers expect them to share earpieces and sanitize between uses. I would not do this and always just ordered my own. But I can't talk and listen to the earpiece at the same time so even as the Store Manager I generally would not wear the headset. I've had interactions with employees in stor...

I am specifically wondering if there were any plans for more Bed Bath and Beyond stores in the Sacramento area in their expansion days since Bed Bath and Beyond only had 5 stores in the area (Folsom, Roseville, Sacramento-Arden, Natomas, and Elk Grove), 1 per 400,000 people. And most areas seemed l...

Hobby Lobby will do great in this location. It will probably be the end for the Jo Ann in Carson though. And I'm not sure if the Michaels will survive either in their current location. Maybe they could try to relocate. I've never seen a Michaels close after a a Hobby Lobby opens. They are next door...

Trader Joe’s officially announced their new South Reno (Summit) and Sparks (Spanish Springs) locations. South Reno is at the Shayden Summit (former Summit Sierra), in the recently-vacated Orvis location. Spanish Springs is the recently-vacated World Market. As storewanderer and I could both tell you...

And it has been confirmed that Hobby Lobby is indeed taking over the former Burlington location: https://carsonnow.org/story/04/17/2024/hobby-lobby-applies-vacating-burlington-coat-factory-location-carson-city It will be interesting to see how HL does in this location. Shopping center could use some...

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’...