Retail Watchers

This all makes me smile. More than half of these fast food places can disappear and we would all be the better for it as a society. So the franchisees can handle this new overhead? Good, close up. Perhaps non fast food sit down restaurants will do better. 👍🤞 Why? So other businesses could open up a...

They tried that "new to the market" stipulation in the 1999 Albertsons/American Stores merger. That is why Raleys got sent to Las Vegas/New Mexico and Ralphs to NorCal. Then to keep the independent grocers happy (who had sued over not getting a shot at Albertsons/Buttrey divests) they thr...

You all know what I mean, older than dirt IBM software. All these different versions at the root are the same software kernel that dates to the 1970s. In newer versions from Toshiba they have removed the dates from the copyright lines so that the average user doesn't see they're using a system olde...

What parts can they no longer get? As I mentioned, Bi-Mart uses a very similar looking IBM POS system, and various other identical register components are still in use at many other retailers using IBM/Toshiba systems, I have seen an occasional Toshiba brand register component which looks identical...

Sears/Kmart POS are owned systems, not leased. When Sears/Kmart close stores they send the old POS somewhere to some company operated facility. They are so old they can't get parts anymore so they supposedly use the old POS for parts. I think in most Sears/Kmart for quite some time over the past 15...

You could make the same post for Staples. Identical waves of stores that should be profitable that are closing. What I would remind everyone of is the majority of these stores are approaching 20 and 30 years old. In my experience, most big box store leases have planned rent increases that are subst...

The Longview, WA Office Depot at the Triangle Center closed in 2020, it replaced an older OfficeMax location on the Kelso-Longview border (which was demolished for a road widening project) and the Triangle location has been vacant except for the seasonal Halloween store every year since. There aren'...

I will not do any money related functions on my phone. A restaurant offering this as the only payment option will alienate quite a few customers.

If they close all the stores on this list, they will continue to lose sales. With no stores in a market, they've admitted online sales shrink as well so they will lost that revenue. Looking at the three Oregon stores on the list that I am most familiar with. Closing the Bend store in a fast-growing...

Many of these have already been on that "neighborhood stores" potential closing list for a while now. But this is the first time I have seen Salem Center listed. I am not surprised considering how dated that 1956 store is looking both inside and out. I will also say that the list really dr...