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And as soon as I post this, I found out that they have had to delay the opening of the Charlotte store again. The email said that the new opening date will be announced "in the coming weeks" which leads me to believe the delay will likely be significant.

Park City is obviously best known as a major tourist area (Sundance, the ski areas and the Utah Olympic Park but it also has significant tourism the rest of the year as well) and Kimball Junction has a large outlet mall that brings people in from the Salt Lake area, and quite a bit of retail that ha...

Useless trivia- millennials became the first generation whose go-to food was not Italian. We prefer Mexican… but Gen Z prefers Asian. Tastes are diversifying. Mexican remains quite popular, but it's a bit of an odd situation when it comes to chain restaurants in that there really aren't any signifi...

Micro Center has now officially announced the new Santa Clara store, with an expected opening date of "Late 2024": https://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/santa-clara.aspx?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=announcement&utm_content=santa%20clara Also, the Charlo...

I'd also put Bella Bottega (Redmond) and Downtown Bellevue among the nicer QFC stores. Possibly also Crossroads Bellevue, Kirkland Urban (the former Parkplace store which got rebuilt during the redevelopment of that complex), Mercer Street and Broadway Market (Capitol Hill), but Broadway Market was ...

I seem to recall that Chili's completely exited Washington around 2008 (there may have been a location at Sea-Tac airport which hung on for a couple more years after that, but that's long gone now as well.) There was one near my employer at the time and I would occasionally end up there for team lun...

I know I have seen IHOP "Rooty Rooty Fresh and Fruity" flavored Lays potato chips at Walmart recently, but have not tried them. I'm assuming the maple flavored Pepsi is part of the same deal?

I know Top Pot made an attempt to expand their donut shops out of the Seattle area back in the mid 2010s, but I don't think they made it past Portland when they did so. They've been selling their donuts in QFC stores for quite a while now, and according to their Wikipedia article they are also selli...

I have no basis for comparison between DC and NC Harris Teeter stores, but within NC they have a fair bit of upscale competition in stores that focus heavily on perimeter departments like Publix, Fresh Market and some of the newer Lowes stores (plus the handful of Wegmans stores in the Triangle.) I'...

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/charlotte-is-getting-its-first-wegmans/BJEGHBZVTNEVRDHPB6R6ITY4V4/ It appears that Wegman's is giving expansion in North Carolina another go, as they have just announced what will be their first store in Charlotte. This will be located in the south part of Charlotte...