Retail Watchers

Some Roark owned concepts that might fit (I didn't realize how many of these they owned); Auntie Anne's, Carvel, Cinnabon, Jamba, McAlister’s, Schlotzsky's, Seattle's Best Coffee (when did SBUX give that up?), Baskin Robbins, Dunkin Donuts, Jimmy John's. I think any of these would be an upgrade fro...

Well, since Sonic and Arby’s are corporate cousins now, I wonder if they’re using the same fries? I don't think there is any integration at all between these chains. That is probably a good thing- I wouldn't want Sonic to influence Arbys in any way. I guess I'll have to go to Sonic and see how thes...

Around Reno there seems to be some kind of a weird thing going on with Ace Hardware. Someone is opening Ace Hardwares in what feels like every shopping center in town with enough space. I have no idea what the logic of this is. This is all very recent in the past few months. Multiple of these shoppi...

Remember that 90% of abandoned sites never emerge from retailer-landlord NDA agreements. I know so many just from my last company but I would never reveal them because NDA. Lease negotiations are always under NDA. The only time you ever will find out is when they make it to the altar and then someo...

The owner of the Yard Birds property is cleaning out what was left in the building and has invited the public to take what is left for free: https://www.chronline.com/stories/yard-birds-cleans-house-owner-of-vacant-shopping-center-invites-public-to-take-items-for-free,339547 OOF. What a tragic stor...

Futile attempt on this new label by Walmart. It's not their thing. Walmart was officially selling F&E products in their stores for quite a while when F&E was still in business. For the most part these were high quality products. They did a horrible job with it................really bad. Was...

100% agree with both of you on that Liberty store. Every time I have visited there it has been busy. The flow of customers is deceiving and does not clearly show how busy it really is. It depends on which side you are in. If it looks slow where you are you go to the other side and it is busy and vi...

Meanwhile Costco, Sam's and Amazon couldn't care less about these upcoming media programs because they're too busy taking market share by better serving their customers. I am surprised they're trying to push out a paid savings model at this current stage of the merger though. I do not see this goin...

Perhaps but SoCal requires a little "something" more for success. I predict their way of "talent recruiting" will fail in SoCal. Do they want "talent" or do they want "robots?" F&E wanted "robots" - the problem was F&E was not a proven formu...

To be clear, they're looking for District Managers In Training who are finishing up their degrees. They have a training program that is almost a year long. The pay and benefits in my opinion are poor based on what is shown. That is a stressful job and I would expect more than two weeks of vacation ...