Retail Watchers

You cannot say with certainty that standards overall are universally higher in CA than the US...things are just different. For instance, in Canada, milk and cream comes from mammals, so plant "milks" are "beverages" or "drinks". Likewise, Coffee-Mate is not "creame...

I really wonder the value of having lovely in-store environments when you're forcing people to squint at their phones (price checking/app loading/coupon scanning/location finding). Just had a conversation w/a 37 year salesperson at Macy's on this topic--I am personally not an "app" guy, bu...

Don't know--we were driving past at 50 mph from the casino back to PSP. No idea that E/W route existed!

Drove the length of the valley from Indio all the way to RM on Fred Waring--there's another WMNM on Fred Waring in La Quinta...no idea that was there.

Just down the street from the WM Neighborhood Market

Palm Desert (111 just west of 74) is fully signed, at least. Havent looked at interior build yet.

We considered using their Hinsdale, IL location to cater our wedding reception--it was a couple blocks from the church where we were married in 2015. Ended up going with a local caterer (which was a bit of a laugh because they required us to give them a check the day before--they were set up strictl...

Wandered through Palm Springs CA...did notice current planogram for summer being set up right inside the front door. Merchandise looks reasonably good. Lots of "burlap screens" about, though...store's in reasonable shape and seems to get a good amount of shoppers.

Just made another order--this time only coming in 2 shipments, one from Salt Lake City, other from ???. Trolling the clearance merchandise--still finding a few things, and they seem to be moving things into that category. Still not very sustainable.

Yes, there seem to be several regional operators in the South/East that might be an interesting combination---some amalgam of Lowes Foods/Food City/Ingles/Food Lion/Acme Ohio could be an interesting roll-up using a couple of nameplates (one for upscale stores/larger towns other for smaller stores/sm...