Retail Watchers

What will the Target thing be? Maybe more of their small-format things? I can't tell exactly how big that location is.

Also nice to see Best Buy snap up a location. That isn't so common these days.

What even is this lab testing stuff? That looks a little strange... but maybe it goes in with all the pharmacy components.

Another one? How could this be happening. Might as well not be any stores that are interesting and unique...

Well, that's the end of Mars Supermarkets as we know it. The area's grocery market is rapidly changing, with stores like Publix and Lidl targeted, the fast rise of Walmart/Wegmans/Harris Teeter/natural foods grocers. No more good old Giant, Shoppers, and Mars.

As of right now, if things continue on their current path, SuperValu will choose to divest their chains, and while Cub Foods is good enough to sell off wholesale to another operator (Kroger, SpartanNash, Albertsons???), Shoppers will probably be divvied up among others. (Shop N Save would be anothe...

I don't really see how Shoppers is facing "crucial times". Sure, it's market share has radically declined, but as long as SuperValu stays solvent and doesn't make indications that the rest of the non-NAI bunch will be divested, or store conditions aren't rapidly deteriorating, is it at th...

Excellent news in the tumultous retail world of the present day. Now we no longer ride on the path to everything being one huge corporation (reminds me of Buy-N-Large from Wall-E )... :P I mean, the competition from Wally World/Amazon may be tough, so try to innovate and work out better plans, Stapl...

Wouldn't have thought so. Huge audience these days...

Maybe it's just lumped there with the "artificial" brands?

Well, what an unexpected move! I would have never expected them to bring back more hardline-related things. This however wouldn't have fit in my nearest (closed) JCP...

Don't forget that Food Fair/Pantry Pride was also in the D.C. area. Wasn't Grand Union there as well? They were, but they had mostly disappeared by the 80s, I believe. Shoppers might have swallowed up a few of these stores. Food Lion has been in the area for a while. I remember back in 1998 when I ...