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- May 28th, 2024, 1:51 pm
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Official: Red Lobster files Chapter 11
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1127
Re: Official: Red Lobster files Chapter 11
For a publicly traded restaurant chain, Darden has done very well. Darden has handled its acquisitions well (that includes divesting Red Lobster). Many/all "chain" "fine dining" places are overpriced for what they are. Darden is a strong operator who is getting good financial re...
- May 28th, 2024, 1:35 pm
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Target Lowers Prices on 5,000 Items for the Summer
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1295
Re: Target Lowers Prices on 5,000 Items for the Summer
The bigger problem I see is if you keep throwing $10 off $50, $5 off $25, $5 off $30, $5 off $15, grocery, offers, this makes me think your prices must be high and that is why you are doing this every week... that isn't exactly accurate but their pricing isn't great. Better than Safeway of course, ...
- May 28th, 2024, 1:31 pm
- Forum: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 165218
Re: Rite Aid closing at least 63 stores
I highly doubt they have any control over this. There are many major vendors who will not do any business with companies in receivership, even if offered cash up front. This is all a recent development out of 2020. Most retailers started playing games with their vendors under the threat of the pand...
- May 24th, 2024, 5:38 pm
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Official: Red Lobster files Chapter 11
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1127
Re: Official: Red Lobster files Chapter 11
When I was at KFC in the late 80s the lifespan of a KFC box was 30 years...I don't think they have done anything that would cause a step-change in that life since; the reasoning was that the technology and decor/setup/offering changes the older buildings become obsolete. You can see that as they ha...
- May 23rd, 2024, 6:16 am
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Mcdonald's Free Nuggets & No Refills
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1056
Re: Mcdonald's Free Nuggets & No Refills
The 3.29 asking price for 6 pieces is too much. I can still go to Wendys and get a 4 for 4 meal that has 4 nuggets in it plus fry/drink/jr cheeseburger. Which is more or less what McDonald's just announced but at $5 (though at least here in this part of NY, they have been doing that for some time n...
- May 22nd, 2024, 6:33 am
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Expensive Restaurants Taking Over Abandoned Department Stores
- Replies: 3
- Views: 229
Re: Expensive Restaurants Taking Over Abandoned Department Stores
Not exactly the same, though on the same thought - we have one (called the Scarlet Knife) outside of Albany, NY, that is in a portion of a former Kmart store.
- May 13th, 2024, 7:10 am
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Kohl's To Open In-Store Babies R Us Shops
- Replies: 12
- Views: 672
Re: Kohl's To Open In-Store Babies R Us Shops
Store presentation and operations seem to be drastically improved. I do not see any two entrance stores reduced to one door anymore. Registers are open and staffed. Although I don't have that they stripped down the wall racking I understand why they did it, and at least now there are finally some w...
- May 10th, 2024, 1:48 pm
- Forum: California USA
- Topic: New Albertsons Interior Southern California
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2421
Re: New Albertsons Interior Southern California
It certainly does. As people have mentioned, I believe the interior that the East Norriton ACME has is a Shop Rite interior with most aspects such as wall signage being carried over to ACME (it looks like Albertsons put up new aisle signage and repainted the store, but most of the wall signage look...
- May 10th, 2024, 1:05 pm
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: CA Senate Bill 478- "Junk fees" bill
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1304
Re: CA Senate Bill 478- "Junk fees" bill
It is confirmed, as of July 1st all the fees at restaurants must be folded into the menu prices. No more surcharges. No more automatic gratuities either even for large parties. Link to the AG documents in this article. It's very clear. https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/news/its-finally-official-a...
- May 9th, 2024, 12:56 pm
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: Grocery Outlet-Inventory levels
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2423
Re: Grocery Outlet-Inventory levels
Grocery outlet has always been a treasure hunt store for me. You never know what you will find. I really enjoy walking through there and seeing all the failed products end up on the shelves there and shaking my head how those products made it past multiple rounds of review in each company. They hav...