Retail Watchers

I'm glad they are doing well, but in the last few years, their merchandise has been unimpressive to me....more and more of the products seem to be just average quality stuff sold all day, every day, but that seems to hold true for others like Big Lots and Ocean State Job Lot as well. Probably just ...

What a great place to shop! https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/dollar-general-ready-address-worker-safety Nothing wrong with the stores, just those picking on them about silly stuff. If there is too much stuff in the aisles, people won't buy items (since thy can't get to them), and in...

Carrols is one of the other franchisees in metro Detroit--they're reasonably well capitalized and have multiple hundred locations of BK and Popeyes. Though they have closed quite a few locations as well, like here in NY State where they are the major franchisee, over the past decade or more, while ...

Still amazed they have 19,000 locations in the US. I had no idea. I thought they were around 12,000 locations. I suspect it just varies by where in the US one looks. we only have a few locally (they actually had more, then closed some, a few years ago, but have since opened others, including a coup...

Canadians pay more for groceries than Americans, and there are several lawsuits up there accusing the main operators up there of fixing prices. Even with the Canadian dollar being worth quite a bit less than the greenback? Seems that would make sense - just to sell an item for the same price, it wo...

Expanding this out to a national scale, if a store is all but blank grocery store except in the name on the front of the building, with this merger in play why not just take the dive and switch the names over to the primary owner while you are at it. The exceptions I could think of is if there is p...

cjd wrote: ↑March 26th, 2023, 5:26 am I remember Publix sold Kristen Keene back about 20 years ago.

Kristen Keene? Maybe there was one around you didn't realize with that name?

Also still has Halloween merchandise for sale 75% off and Christmas merchandise for sale 60% off. Pretty sure that stuff was supposed to be pulled long ago. I guess nobody cares in this store. Not surprising, as ours had Easter items (just plastic eggs and that fake grass as I remember) for 75% off...

Here's another way to look at the situation: Circuit City brought in $12B a year at bankruptcy and Best Buy was at $55B a year. In the 12 months after Circuit City finished liquidation Best Buy staffed up, rushed new stores, and even took over many Circuit City Store locations to capture share. The...

The problem that many electronics chains that didn't carry appliances experienced is that not only did prices decline 75% or more on categories like TVs and computers (meaning you had to quadruple traffic to break even) but the sizes of the units shrank. Seems like it would depend on what they are ...