Retail Watchers

Pure speculation here but Walmart has been very slow last couple of months. In fact I find myself buying very little there right now with their sky high food prices that are in desperate need of a rollback. I've never seen so many piles of merchandise next to price scanners before... So many people...

Only thing I find odd is that this is a very, very rapid "about face" from Walmart. Here is an announcement from just last month about a massive expansion underway for the program. So a hair less than two months from announcing the doubling in size of the program they pull the plug? https...

If every Costco is like the one I work at, there is a big bullhorn megaphone along with other emergency supplies/procedure documents kept in the office, but yeah, there is no PA system or speakers of any kind throughout the building.

Also more supercenters (good number of SuperTarget and Walmart Supercenters). There are SuperTarget stores in NJ? I didn't think there were really any in the Northeast at all. They did build several 'Greatland' locations that were maybe designed to morph into the full grocery-heavy format, but I do...

Longtime mall retailer Express filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, but a group of investors led by brand management firm WHP Global is looking to save the company by acquiring it. Express, whose portfolio includes its namesake banner, Bonobos and UpWest, said it will close 95 of i...

Have the likes of Netflix, Apple Music, Xbox/Playstation stores finally been able to supplant DVDs, CDs, and physical video games in entirety? For all intents and purposes, yes. If Best Buy couldn't hang onto physical media, why would Target be any different? CD's? What are those? Movies? I probabl...

McDonalds was making some relatively nice looking restaurants with what I'd call pleasant looking tile work, walls, lighting... but the recent remodels un-do all of that. I am hearing the franchisees favor these recent remodels as they are cheaper to maintain. It is even cheaper to maintain things ...

Based on this Reddit post, they are definitely using liquidators and sign walkers in some places.


A comment further down says this in Union City, CA

Funny that this comes up as I happened to be driving around the back of a shopping center with a Trader Joe's last week and I noticed on their loading dock area they had a TJ's branded pop-up canopy with boxes of merchandise (or perhaps and hopefully, store supplies) being stored underneath!

And surprise, surprise...the mall is owned by Brookfield, the partial owner of JCPenney. Seems to me like this store is nothing more than 'filler' to keep up the healthy mall appearances. Also technically, this store is simply a relocation from another adjacent big box shopping plaza (Vornado-owned)...