Retail Watchers

Hard to keep a cleanliness/friendlyness campaign when you run a mostly franchise operation, most of who are one and two store operators with long term contracts who basically run a liquor store with Slurpees. 7-11 must have a fairly decentralized management structure or at least some people who are...

There were some problems with fraud protection and customer service: https://www.propublica.org/article/afte ... nts-soared

The Towson, MD Walmart is closing on April 5. https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/walmart-closing-towson-location-on-april-5-due-to-underperformance This is another "mall" Walmart (the store is a former Montgomery Ward) that was 2 levels. There is also a Target in the same mall which is a...

They said 330? of the new locations will be in the Midwest and Northeast. So that leaves 470 locations that will be new in SE Grocers territory, plus CA/NV/AZ. Southeast Grocers is at 600 stores. So assuming this 50 stores converted per year rate that means 250 stores converted over a 5 year period...

As it stands, no one really wants 7k square foot stores that are just the same as their larger stores but less stuff. There are two "natural foods" chains in the DC area that are exactly this--one is Yes! Organic which is exclusively in DC except for one in the suburbs and MOM's (Mom's Or...

Bloomingdale's core customer is different from Macy's and Macy has used Bloomingdale's to address redundancies where it makes sense. After the May-Federated merger, they converted quite a number of redundant stores to Bloomingdale's such as the former Macy's at Lenox Square in Atlanta and several ma...

The Towson, MD Walmart is closing on April 5. https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/walmart-closing-towson-location-on-april-5-due-to-underperformance This is another "mall" Walmart (the store is a former Montgomery Ward) that was 2 levels. There is also a Target in the same mall which is a...

The closure of the movie theater really caused a die off of the restaurants. The food court was surviving on the movie theater crowd. Once the movie theater closed, the restaurants were deserted. Perhaps a movie theater or a Dave & Buster's would help out. The Metreon shopping center across the...

Columbia quality far exceeds the modern Eddie Bauer. (*except made for Outlet goods) Columbia has been aggressively researching and designing new materials and fillers. They have superior waterproofing that is still breathable, thin and lightweight jackets that are incredibly warm when needed but w...

This feels like a bit of a dying product category to me. I am seeing more and more imported products in these items and fewer and fewer options in general. Too many of these products have high fructose corn syrup when they probably should not, yet also have a pretty high price tag. I expect cleaner...