Retail Watchers

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

IMO, they are growing too quickly and they don't have enough merchandise to fill their stores with. I popped in a few times to the new location in Jamison and it was very underwhelming. Unless they were incredibly busy earlier in the day, the shelves were quite light throughout and most of the merch...