Retail Watchers

Safeway might be holding off on building a new store. A new store would cost a lot of money and the new store might not bring in enough profit to justify the cost of a completely new store. The current store probably makes a decent profit right now.

The top photo is Supervalu's Premium Fresh and Healthy. The second is the Jewel Interior (which some Albertsons also received after Albertsons merged with American Stores). The third is the old 90s era Lucky decor.

The Lifestyle Safeways in Redwood City, Belmont, and Palo Alto, CA are gable stores. http://www.flickr.com/photos/romleys/2434304865/ I have seen the graphics on the wall in a Pleasant Hill Safeway store that received a remodel just a few months ago. The Hayward store also received similar wall grap...

I have seen the imitation cookies. They seem like a cheap copy.

I prefer the Mother's Cookies in the authentic package. Kellog's bought the original recipe so they should be just like the originals.

Here is a free coupon for a 2 piece Kentucky Grilled Chicken meal!

Oprah is endorsing the coupon.

http://www.unthinkfc.com/

In the San Francisco Bay Area, some Longs Drugs have already switched to the CVS computer systems. The receipts say CVS. Has CVS changed its mind and decided to rebrand the Longs Drugs in Hawaii to CVS? Hawaiians are very attached to the Longs Drugs name. The store has been in Hawaii a long time and...

Kellog's did a nice job of recreating the cookies right down to the packaging.

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=286548 This is one of the last remnants of Jewel-Osco policy that survived the merger with Albertsons. Jewel is vastly different today than what it used to be like. After Albertsons took over, the stores started to be run like Albertsons. My friends from Illinoi...

Kellog's has announced that Mother's Cookies are now back on the shelves as of today.

I noticed in the most recent Lucky ad that it had a note about the upcoming release of Mother's Cookies.

The online ad now automatically routes you to CVS.com. The ad is now in the CVS style with the CVS font and layout. The old Longs style is gone. Also, all of the Longs brands are gone from the ad as well.