Retail Watchers

babs wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2023, 2:02 pm The Walmart in Downtown Honolulu that used to be a Macy's is closing as well. I gotta think theft, high operating costs and fewer people working in the office in downtown Honolulu did it in.

Another irregular format store closing.

Probably had an odd sales mix with that location.

These supermarket Krispy Kreme products always looked disgusting, slimy and stale appearance. Their product is only good in the plain original glazed, only if eaten red hot within a couple minutes after taken off the doughnut machine. The glaze turns to liquid and the doughnut loses most of its fla...

Apparently our shelved-off aisles could be soon be reopened in the wake of a fire marshal complaint which may or may not make any difference given the lack of a real corporate merchandising plan and the fact that the store is the only Sunrise Village merchant to retain its original facade.While the...

My guess is that Kroger is simply trying to keep up with all of the new growth in North Texas. They took a pause I suppose when all of their money was going to their Occado "sheds" and now they're trying to catch up. I would suspect that the DFW area is one of their best markets. I don't ...

Interesting reading your observations of FoodMaxx. It seems they have a lot of regional variation, because mine are fairly well staffed, usually 2-3 lanes open (no self checkout here) and several employees on the floor. Their pricing does seem to be a bit higher than Winco, but my credit card rewar...

They seem to be spending a lot on social media ads lately claiming to have "inflation busting prices" but usually don't feature a product or price. I've seen a couple call-outs in their circulars and some cardboard pylon advertisements outside my local Fresh store...but the 'deals' I've s...

I am noticing the same thing with in-stock condition, some stuff has been missing for a long time. Given that they cut so many SKUs out I think it is pretty important they keep the SKUs still offered in stock constantly. I know some categories like OTC Cough/Cold are bad at every retailer but the mi...

I personally just don't like the F4L operation with the way they went into some of their locations in lower income communities with a captive audience. They generally didn't discount much more than a Ralphs but run a lower labor program with lower quality and of course customer bagging. I do think ...

This is great news. The Marketplace format was a good one in Dallas, I did not understand why they quit building them in that market.

If this is a reactionary move to HEB, I am not sure how it will play out. They would have been better off opening 2-3 of these every couple years for the past decade.

They seem to have announced a new wave of closings today. Brooklyn Center, MN (1200 Shingle Creek Crossing) This is an 11 year old store located on the site of a former mall (Brookdale Mall) and apparently the area is a high crime area. The Target in the area closed in 2019. South Bend, IN (3701 Po...