Retail Watchers

With today's announcement that Macy's will open 30 more Bluemercury locations, it made me think that perhaps Bluemercury would have been better off on their own. With Ulta and Sephora growing much faster and having many more locations, has the ownership of Bluemercury held back their potential?

And speaking of Macy's.....news broke today that 150 locations are to close in the next few years. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/27/investing/macys-closing-150-stores/index.html Wait... didn't they already close all their poorly performing stores? I'm now starting the countdown clock for them. T-5 ye...

Apparently the new sign is already in place, and if one was not trained to dig deep, probably indistinguishable from the last version. "Kroger Family of Stores" did something right. 8-) OregonLive.com - Meet the New Burlingame Fred Meyer Sign I have some pictures of took of it at night (n...

BillyGr wrote: ↑February 19th, 2024, 9:53 am

Alpha8472 wrote: ↑February 18th, 2024, 12:51 pm Jack In The Box now has fish wraps too. I don't how that will appeal to people.

Seems like they might work well, as other places do fish tacos, which are going to be somewhat similar.

Stick enough mayo or tartar sauce in it to mask the fish flavor and it works!

Fish sandwiches are once again appearing at fast food restaurants. A&W is advertising the quarter pound fish sandwich. Some people are saying it is the best fish sandwich of all the fast food restaurants including Culver's. I tried the Jack In The Box sandwich and it seemed to be on the small s...

Speaking of updated logos. Why does the on-court logo at the Target Center use an upper case version of their logo when Target has switched to lower case letters? Seems like a huge miss, especially this year as the Minnesota Timberwolves are doing so well and getting more national TV coverage.

On a side note, I wish Target would just cut out a portion of their curb and sidewalk area in front of their store for cars to drive up and pick up their orders. Most stores have giant, wide sidewalks with plenty of room to cut out a pick up area. That way you could return the 16 to 32 choice parkin...

Store banks have largely disappeared from most regions I visit. What was once a feature in most stores, is now a feature in what feels like about 2 in 100 stores. The one bank I see that still has quite a few supermarket branches scattered around is US Bank but they have been actively closing those...

Will be interesting to see if Oregon and Washington get any new stores. They are underrepresented here but the NW hasn't been much of a focus for them.

Hopefully they fix the BK fish as part of this. It used to be good many years ago but now it's greedy and tastes awful.