Retail Watchers

Wal Mart has some wide swings on pricing lately. Their prices in store on a lot of items don't feel low to me. Similar to Home Depot/Lowes/office chains/etc. type of thing. I was buying a few items in their home improvement area and I wanted to see reviews of the products so I pulled them up on the ...

Perhaps some opportunities for independent restaurants to back fill these spaces. But I am thinking at this point a lot of these spaces may not be in the best locations or be the best condition based on the age of many of the units.

I was thinking there is no way the large Simon Mall group would possibly touch that mall... that mall was nice when the anchors were filled but the reality is its size - it was just flat out overbuilt for the area.

I was in the area and decided to go check it out. I would rate it 8 out of 10 seeing it in real life. The store is a near clone layout wise of newer Albertsons, the closest being the San Marcos location. Original two tone tinted concrete floors poorly maintained and not improved, many patches with ...

Target pricing trends cents higher than Wal Mart on food and consumables in many cases. Maybe dimes higher in drug/personal care. But lately I notice more items with a wider price variance. Both of these chains have been price increasing drastically in recent years and the price gap between them and...

Substantial number of closures happening next Sunday. They are largely done in NorCal by next Sunday. There may be a store or two that lingers open past Memorial Day but I haven't figure out which one(s). The end is very near. I tried to buy some fixtures/supplies and was refused at one store, the l...

Cameron Park is the same franchisee as Bidwell (Las Vegas). Cameron Park had a fairly recent very thorough and very well done remodel done to it. I think there are a variety of factors. Lack of traffic. Insurance cost. Cleaning cost. Lack of staffing. You can and should call an outside company out p...

Given their history of scandals and dated not so healthful food, I would love them to just disappear. Sounds like a typical chain business; scandals and controversial quality of products. No different than Denny's in the early 90's. Depends on the scandal and if that "scandal" is typical ...

Ralphs has a really weird location far from the freeway and major arterials adjacent to the most rural areas with horse ranches and such. It is a quiet and peaceful, slow area which is why I like it. I am still puzzled by statements that it is a busy store. I suspect that it is a 50/50 split store....

The format 99 Cents Only tends to run is quite a bit bigger than Dollar Tree, I remember one store in Houston had Dollar Tree replace one but didn't use all the space. I'm not sure if "returning to grocery store space" is a good idea; most of them seemed to be outdated, small spaces in wo...