Retail Watchers

We could go back to Hydrogen….

https://www.cspdailynews.com/company-ne ... east-coast

Basically the AM-PMs in the east are a version of the Thorntons format

Raleys-owned Bashas' in Arizona operates United Drugs-supplied pharmacies in most of its non-tribal stores. In fact, every new grocery store/retailer-Fry's, Safeway, Walmart...has a pharmacy in Arizona (and promotes it). Probably due to the fact we have more choice in health care plans here than in ...

Yet Cracker Barrel has 9 California locations...including Hollywood(!)

BP now owns Midwest c-store chain Thorntons. Unlike the other big oil companies, BP seems to want to expand in the company-owned c-store market (as does Shell). And they are trying to upscale AM-PM. As for ARCO, there are several convenience store chains that sell ARCO fuel....Giligan's, which is HQ...

There isn't any foreign company big enough to buy Albertsons. Too much been here done that for Tesco. Loblaws and Empire are too busy in Canada.

BP is beginning to open AmPm stores on the East Coast-the first store is in Brooklyn. At the same time a number of ARCO sites in Phoenix are dropping the AmPm brand-going to the generic “Food Mart” signage. It makes you wonder if Marathon may drop the AmPm license in SoCal and Arizona.

Overseas Church’s is called Texas Fried Chicken (because “Church” has a questionable connotation in Asia) They do offer jalapeños, which is a Texas thing.

Papa Murphy’s has something similar to this-no pasta or crust. Going after the Keto/low carb crowd.

In the 90s, Payless in the San Francisco Bay Area had huge stores. They carried a huge selection of items. The Payless in Pleasant Hill, California was originally an Albertsons Payless Combo store. The 2 companies teamed up to create a super store that featured a supermarket and a variety store wit...