Retail Watchers

And for another example of this, today I saw several gallons of Great Value branded organic skim milk being sold in a Lidl store. Once again I'm pretty sure it's a simple matter of all the products coming from the same dairy and just ending up in the wrong store, or possibly that they just didn't ha...

If there's that many people in line, it is likely that they are having to enforce the occupancy limit set by the fire marshal. I remember that when the Ross stores reopened up in Washington after the COVID shutdowns (which closed them completely for about 3 months) they had what I presume was a temp...

Looking over the Northwest Companies website it seems like they specialize in operating in far-flung regions. Although most of their business seems to be running stores in Northern Canada (Northern/NorthMart) and Alaska (Alaska Commercial Co) they also have Cost-U-Less stores throughout the Pacific ...

It seems like they are keeping the trademarks alive by establishing a handful of stations with some of the less prominent brands. Even Chevron, which is a VERY dominant brand, still has a handful of Texaco stations. Not to mention that Chevron has a single Standard branded station in each of the st...

The BP brand was used in the Pacific Northwest back in the 1990s (I believe this was before BP owned Arco) but at some point they withdrew and I recall that all the BP stations rebranded to 76. Over time a lot of those gradually rebranded to other things, particularly the Brown Bear Car Wash station...

I have no idea what's going on with Mimi's. They have locations in 12 different states, but only one location in 6 of those states, and no more than 3 locations in any state besides California. The one here in Greensboro is the only location in North Carolina. Looking at the menu, their prices are v...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/05/30/amazon-prime-free-grubhub-plus/73886397007/ Amazon has just announced that Grubhub+ will now be included as part of Amazon Prime membership, extending the original 1 year deal indefinitely. Amazon customers will also be able to make Grubhub orders from...

The Burlington store at Everett Mall (Everett WA) was probably a good 75,000 square feet when it opened, but after COVID about 20% of the floor space in that store has been walled off, and even what's left is significantly larger than the newer stores that have been opening recently. Those stores ar...

The Neighborhood Market in Bellevue WA is a larger one as well, built into a subdivided former Kmart store with an LA Fitness club taking the rest. Although it's been years since I shopped there they tended to have a wider selection than you might normally see at a Neighborhood Market (including som...

https://www.wral.com/story/wawa-in-nc-10-stores-by-end-of-2024-90-stores-in-10-years/21433211/ A couple of weeks ago the first Wawa store in North Carolina opened in Kill Devil Hills near the Wright Brothers Memorial on the Outer Banks, with plans announced for 9 more stores to open in Eastern NC by...