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- April 22nd, 2024, 10:02 am
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Express files for bankruptcy, plans to close nearly 100 stores as investor group looks to save the brand
- Replies: 4
- Views: 168
Express files for bankruptcy, plans to close nearly 100 stores as investor group looks to save the brand
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...
- April 17th, 2024, 7:37 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Target to discontinue physical media?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 298
Re: Target to discontinue physical media?
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...
- April 14th, 2024, 7:44 pm
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Why Have Some Chain Stores Haven't Gotten Makeovers Yet and What Lies Ahead for Them!"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 549
Re: Why Have Some Chain Stores Haven't Gotten Makeovers Yet and What Lies Ahead for Them!"
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 ...
- April 14th, 2024, 7:37 pm
- Forum: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores
- Replies: 1571
- Views: 149380
Re: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores
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
A comment further down says this in Union City, CA
- April 14th, 2024, 7:33 pm
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: The backroom at TJs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 669
Re: The backroom at TJs
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!
- April 10th, 2024, 7:23 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: First New JCPenney In 8 Years Opens
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1281
Re: First New JCPenney In 8 Years Opens
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)...
- April 6th, 2024, 6:52 pm
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Arby's Free Sandwich Each Week In April
- Replies: 8
- Views: 315
Re: Arby's Free Sandwich Each Week In April
I got my free Gyro this evening! I doubt I'll use this promo every week as Arby's are few and far between in my area. The app definitely isn't the greatest..it encourages you to walk in to pick up your order vs. using the Drive Thru (although I'm sure they would have just handed it to me at the driv...
- April 4th, 2024, 7:14 pm
- Forum: Mid-Atlantic USA
- Topic: Grocery Outlet Mid-Atlantic Expansion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 287
Re: Grocery Outlet Mid-Atlantic Expansion
I'll probably add this to the national thread as well, but G.O. is pushing that they now offer an "app" and that it can search your store's inventory, so you know if they will or won't have something in stock. Interesting. I know they already partner with Instacart, but I just don't see t...
- April 4th, 2024, 7:11 pm
- Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Sam's Crackdown on Membership Sharing
- Replies: 21
- Views: 808
Re: Sam's Crackdown on Membership Sharing
Do they not blanket the area around a new store with free memberships where you are? Maybe they only do that in some markets. Absolutely not, and I have never heard such a thing being done as a 10+ year employee. I know in areas of new stores, they would set up sign-up stations either outside of wh...
- April 3rd, 2024, 12:33 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Burlington closing Carson City, NV location
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1296
Re: Burlington closing Carson City, NV location
Didn't see this coming but maybe it is not so surprising. Burlington seems to be having some issues. They keep blocking off more and more of their sales floors. I honestly can't differentiate between Burlington/Ross/Gabe's these days...all three, and to some extent you can throw TJMaxx/Marshall's i...