Retail Watchers

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I happened to need to travel through Baker City, Oregon so I snapped some photos of the Haggen there. As I pointed out in a previous post, this store is newer and larger than the Safeway across the street. It will be interesting to see if Baker County can find another grocery tenant besides someone...

What a contrast these images present! I was in the "going concern" former Albertson's at the corner of Walnut and Barrows Rd. in Beaverton. The store was clean, well stocked and looked like business as usual. There were even a decent amount of customers. Upon leaving the area, I took Murra...

According to this article, locations will continue to increase through 2017. One thing of note, this location has many of the new Kroger touches but no beer/wine bar, probably due to the difficulties with alcohol service in Utah. Smith's Opens New Smith's Marketplace in Kaysville Kaysville is in Dav...

It looks like officials in Baker City, Oregon are courting Winco foods to take over the soon to close Haggen location there: http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Replace-Haggen I wish them the best of luck. Baker County has been flat in population for decades at just under 10,000 and I don't k...

The CarQuest on Powell Blvd. is now Advance and my radio station continues to run advertisements about "grand openings" of Advance stores so I think all the Portland, Ore. area stores are converting over to the corporate banner. Since they place a lot of radio advertising nationally, like ...

In Idaho, they now have a location in Meridian (basically suburban Boise), took over part of the decaying West Park Plaza in Ontario, Ore. (right ont he Idaho border) and are opening in Pocatello in the former Cal Ranch space at Westwood Mall. Cal moved to the Pine Ridge Mall. Tractor Supply Company...

So Whole Foods is the tenant in this case, but it's for their new "365" concept. I was thinking this was pretty close to the Bellevue Whole Foods so this is an interesting idea. There isn't another grocer nearby except for the pleasant and large newer "lifestyle" Safeway that rep...

From the Burlingame Fred Meyer in Portland, Ore. noticed some interesting things on these ketchup bottles. This is really unusual as almost all Fred Meyer products are now private label Kroger like all their other chains, rather than with the FM logo. My original post was more interesting, but lost...

Super Saver are still operating in West Valley City and Salt Lake City (both on Redwood Road). I asked one of my friends that lives near the Rose Park location. There is no website anywhere, but the logos are shown on the Albertsons corporate banner website here: Traditions and History I don't think...