Retail Watchers

Dick's Sporting Goods is opening a new concept called Dick's House of Sport where you can "connect and play." It will offer a "hands on experience, " with a rock climbing wall, high tech batting cage, an outdoor turf field and a running track. There will be an ice skating rink in...

McDonald's and Subway are closing locations at Walmart stores. Restaurant relations with Walmart have failed. Restaurants realize that indoor dining is unappealing to people due to the pandemic. The numbers show that drive thru dining is where the money is to be made. Indoor dining is a money loser ...

The first CityTarget in San Francisco was 98,000 Square feet including the first floor lobby with a Starbucks and the plexiglass house of the future exhibit. It has revolving glass doors like a hotel lobby and huge tall escalators leading to the main shopping level on the second floor. The store loo...

Popular Korean supermarket chain H-Mart is opening a new store in San Francisco at Alemany. In the 1960s, Albertsons entered San Francisco with a store at Alemany. That store became a Lucky and then years later Albertsons bought Lucky and the store became an Albertons. Then the store was demolished ...

The faux wood paneling was intended to be long term. However, the wood panels had lots of gaps and it looks like there is extensive water damage from rain getting in around the gaps. Target made a huge amount of profit from the hoarding. They are Rremodeling around 200 stores. The Target near me is ...

When you go to Krispy Kreme you expect them to have the donuts you want in stock. If they don't carry the standard assortment, then they have lost customers possibly for life. No wonder this location is doing so poorly. You have to spend some money and keep those donuts in stock or else you lose all...

The waiting outside thing sounds really overboard at first, but it is due to COVID-19 cases. My sister's co-worker at Kaiser Permanente calls up people to inform them of positive test results. The infection rates are so high at fast food restaurants that they tell customers to wait outside. Many fas...

They reviewed the past performance and the anticipated future sales and decided to close the stores. The nearby Stonestown Galleria Target is expanding to triple its size due to the closure of Nordstrom. These small Target stores did not do much business during the pandemic. They were so small that ...

Walmart was sued for not having chairs at their cash registers. There was a huge judgment against Walmart. Target is probably trying to avoid the potential for getting sued. The Walnut Creek, California Target that was famously looted in the riots 2020 is getting a remodel. It received a total brand...

A limit of 50 people in an entire theater is crazy. Do they mean auditorium? If a 16 screen theater can only have 50 people total, then it will not be very profitable.