Retail Watchers

I have to imagine Boston Market is on its way out of DFW soon. Typically, in a big restaurant chain like this, you'll have some locations that a good and some that are bad. In Boston Market's case, all of the locations in the Metroplex are just plain awful. Whoever is managing these stores isn't ev...

I thought I heard they brought it back months ago...

I have to imagine Boston Market is on its way out of DFW soon. Typically, in a big restaurant chain like this, you'll have some locations that a good and some that are bad. In Boston Market's case, all of the locations in the Metroplex are just plain awful. Whoever is managing these stores isn't eve...

I just came from Wendy's for lunch. Now mind you, this location is in the Addison / Galleria area, where there are a *TON* of hungry office workers. I get there and they had, easily, 15 cars deep in the drive thru line backed up into the street and it wasn't moving at all. So I decide "Maybe if...

Alpha8472 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2021, 10:00 pm Walmart has completely stopped selling cigarettes and e-cigarettes. It is shocking. Does anyone smoke anymore? Where do the cigarette smokers go now for cheap cigarettes?

Convenience stores and gas stations?

Right, but they are branded as Macy's and operated as such. I'm suggesting different branding that would pull in a different demographic. Think Food 4 Less vs Ralphs or Mariano's. The initial Backstage Stores were "outside Macy's" and in larger spaces very much like a Ross or similar and ...

To me, it seems like the Macys at Oakland Mall would be a perfect candidate for closure. It's fairly redundant with the Macy's at Somerset right down the road. Oakland Mall is a big 1968 store, with (guessing) 300k-ish sqft, including full furniture, home, Backstage, etc etc etc. Somerset is only a...

The stores in Garland and Bedford are from the mid 80's when Albertsons re-entered Dallas. In fact the Bedford store (and Richardson, also still open) is mentioned in this commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHtjPpNYbdc Mesquite is a former Skaggs. All three stores had a weird remodel job d...

Its going to be interesting to see how this all shakes out. It is indeed a wage problem for workers who can't afford to support themselves with what restaurants are paying. But understandably, restaurant owners / franchisees are also under pressure to keep their labor costs under control with the pr...

Hillsboro, OR confuses me a bit. The store opened in 2004 and has had some investment. It also has a Macy's Backstage inside the store. That is a generally busy area and demographics are good. If that store goes that will only leave a total of 2 Macy's around metro Portland (3 if you count Vancouve...