Retail Watchers

I think this law will save consumers money, as price transparency promotes competition in the marketplace, which tends to lower prices. Credit card fees are not affected, as they are optional and easily avoided. It will be interesting to see what happens with resort/ticket fees. Will websites that a...

I haven't tested to see if Kroger assesses this cash back fee on Discover cash back too or if it is strictly on debit cards. Discover prohibits merchants from charging a fee for this service. While I don't like more fees, this is much cheaper than using a non-bank ATM, and low enough that people wo...

Aldi is looking for rookie District Managers in the Moreno Valley division again, fresh out of college or just finishing up. I think there is some truth to the rumors they're going to acquire a lot of the NorCal, Nevada, and Arizona leases. Wonder where they'll build a warehouse to fulfill from? Ro...

I question the source but it makes a lot of sense as to why the store was remodeled but sat for months before officially changing the brand as they would have had to restart the signage permitting process to use the Vons sign instead of Albertsons (and permits take forever in Long Beach). https://l...

Keep in mind the termination date can be dragged out to October 9. I’d think after that, the merger will almost certainly be stopped. I doubt Trump would approve this merger assuming such a scenario were to happen, considering his friendship with the Gristedes owner in NYC. I bet Trump would direct...

I know I'm a little late, but I'm recently catching up with the latest divesture plan announced by Kroger. According to what I read, Kroger is divesting the Albertsons banner to C&S in California. I wonder if this includes the Vons and Pavilions banner also being divested? Or just the Albertson...

I think I need to be more specific than I was previously as I painted with too broad of a brush. The Vietnamese community in Orange County seems to have something against Ralphs, which has led to the closure of all of the stores in and around Little Saigon. Meanwhile Albertsons does fine with two b...

I'm not sure if they intend on divesting any stores on this stretch in the now very unlikely scenario this merger goes through, but if they have a chance of having this merger going through, there is no doubt the FTC is going to require them to give up at least one store on this strip. Yes, a lot o...

Allegedly the number one performing region at Sam's for the last 4 years is California. It's carrying their whole organization. Remember that Sam's historically botched California and had opened themselves up to being run out of the state by the Costco Business Center rollout, but then Sam's turned...

It's hard for me to see how Albertsons and Kroger thought this new deal would entice the FTC any better. I know someone said maybe it was simply to get the states that were suing off their backs, but the FTC was very clear that C&S is simply a questionable buyer, and it's going to take actual l...