Retail Watchers

Utah now allows regular ABV beer to be sold at grocery stores. Stronger brews and wine are still only available through the state liquor stores.

Also Subway is now owned by Inspire Brands-the same company that owns Jimmy John’s, Arby’s, Sonic, Dunkin, and Buffalo Wild Wings. BWW and now Subway serve Pepsi, the other Inspire chains serve Coke.

Another excuse not to eat at Subway. There are better places for subs.

Used to be that a lot of Vegas supermarkets ran 24 hours, due to the fact that Vegas is a 24/7 town.

You apparently haven’t tried Bar-S

Walgreens has been closing down the Village Medical sites in several markets-mainly in Florida. These are the clinics that were built on existing Walgreens sites-cutting the size of the Walgreens store in half. With Village Medical gone, what do they do with the now empty space?

What goes in the Midwest (or Germany ) often doesn’t do well in the South, especially not having access to certain brands/foods that Aldi won’t stock (No Duke’s mayo? No Blue Bell ice cream?)

I suspect most of those FD stores are in certain neighborhoods with high crime rates.
And does DG take over the closed FD sites.

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.

It looks like 7-11 isn’t going to drop the Speedway brand anytime soon. They just started a major ad campaign for the Speedway brand which includes offering Slurpees and Big Gulps. What seems to be happening is the 7-11 banner being emphasized in urban markets, with Speedway in the more rural areas-...