Retail Watchers

Was in Target and Hannaford earlier today and both of them were quite thinly stocked in pasta and boxed cookies of all things. Pasta was particularly bad; took the last five boxes of rigatoni Target had and Hannaford was almost bare as well. Brand-wise it didn't matter; there was pretty not much of...

Hy-Vee is selling land in the Twin Cities metro they had acquired to build five new stores. They say these sites are now too small to accommodate the size of store they would want to build, but, if you read between the lines, there's an implication that they are giving up on any additional expansion...

An arrest has been made in connection to the fire. Charges and additional information are to be released tomorrow.

https://abc7news.com/home-depot-fire-sa ... /11765668/

norcalriteaidclerk wrote: ↑April 5th, 2022, 4:32 pm I couldn't find anything in the Wikipedia article,but I wonder what the typical square footage of an Aldi US location is...

Their standard for new builds, either standalone or in a strip mall, is around 18,000 sq. ft total.

cjd wrote: ↑January 28th, 2022, 7:04 pmI had one item in each hand in the footage.

This is probably where the system got confused, since it expects you to only handle one item at a time.

Take a look on Google Maps of the Jersey City, NJ Sears. The inside of the store if you focus on the flooring and the fixtures doesn't look too bad. But in recent photos if you start to look at the ceiling you start to notice some things. Missing tiles, stained tiles, tarps, all over the place. In ...

Super S wrote: ↑January 1st, 2022, 6:46 am Colorado I think was one of the first major markets Target entered outside of Minnesota years ago.

The Denver metro was the very first market outside of Minnesota that Target entered. The first Targets there opened in 1966.

https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2021/12/29/hy-vee-adding-security-teams-stores/ The press release this news is written from is kind of vague as to the job description of these new security officers, but, with food prices having risen so much, I'm guessing shrink has risen as well and this is a way to ...

How is Hy-Vee failing the Twin Cities? I had believed they were doing quite good. According to the consultant quoted in the article, "[Hy-Vee] never reached the size and scale in the state of Minnesota that they had hoped for because they just weren't able to compete head-to-head with a high v...

The Oregonian newspaper charged 7.99 for the Thanksgiving edition. We bought it last year and it had very few ads. We didn't buy it this year. At 7.99, they are killing themselves off. I read reports of other newspapers owned by Advance Publications charging $7.99 for the Thanksgiving edition despi...