Retail Watchers

Meanwhile, am-pm seems to be fading away in Arizona, most ARCO retailers here have gone to the generic “Food Mart” signage. I don’t know what is going on in SoCal with the am-pm operation. I suspect Marathon is tired of paying BP for licensing am-pm.

ExxonMobil has several products-for industry-called Gargoyle and Humble. And they sell Enco Diesel Fuel in several areas.

Philips 66 (the gas station business) is totally separated from Conoco Phillips
The same with Marathon Petroleum (the gas stations) based in Ohio and separate Marathon Oil based in Texas. This is a merger of crude oil producers, not refineries.

67th @ Indian School was a former Smith’s …one of the first Smith’s stores built in the Phoenix area around 1990.

The question is….will WaWa ever expand westward? QT is planning to expand into Florida.

A number of Fry’s sites were originally Smith’s- especially in smaller towns like Flagstaff and Cottonwood. Converted over at the time of the Kroger-Fred Meyer merger.
And Bashas’ cash cows have always been Food City, AJ’s Fine Foods and the rural stores like the Dine’ Markets.

The question at Target….will those 5000+ items be on the shelves?

Maybe they can reduce the size of the gift department. And they have done pretty well in the past without California.
They also have ownership problems with some hedge fund clown.

Springfield used to be the predominant private label brand in California, even having its own ad campaign and billboards. It became the store brand of Arden Mayfair even sold at its El Rancho stores in Arizona.

Sounds like they sell the same crap as Five Below or the Dollar stores…only in an Asian style.