Retail Watchers

Previously the credit card networks prohibited surcharges and minimum purchase amounts. Credit card fees became legal due to the Durbin legislation. This politician also fought some years ago to get it so merchants could have a "minimum charge amount" if $10. Durbin is a Democrat politicia...

Everson Market is part of that old ghost of Brown & Cole chain with the various banners like Food Pavilion, Cost Cutter etc. Their ad is a (very strong) URM ad so it is odd they'd be selling any Lucerne product. However that outfit had changed wholesalers enough times that nothing would surprise...

Alaska has had a program for years where Carrs serves as a wholesaler to very remote stores.

So Seattle Division may be using this elsewhere in its territories.

Probably getting this built up to be ready for C&S.

I have not been since 2020 and have not heard of any refreshing so I will presume everything is status quo. I also suspect that the entire complex may be "protected" status? It seems like at this point a store with that Lifestyle interior should have been remodeled by now. There are still...

That buyout of the Sparks Ace by Big R (a Do-it-Best licensee) was a real head-scratcher for me. I’m not quite sure what Big R saw in Sparks, other than a large store for sale. That store did better as Ace, although Big R did win Stihl dealer of the year for Nevada. Was it doing better as Ace? Ace ...

Target appears to be re-entering the live plant business; there are live plant displays in front of the Reno Target. It is also forecasted to go to a low of 31 degrees in Reno tonight. Most other stores don't have many live plants yet; the grocery stores that typically throw a few racks outside don'...

I visited a couple of stores today. Credit Card machines were down. They were only taking cash via handwritten signs on the door and in one store via a reminder every 5 minutes over the PA. The stock is running out differently at different stores, but it would best be qualified as fair to poor. The...

The past couple times I've gone into Ace Stores I've left empty handed due to the stores not having what I needed. The stores were semi messy, price labeling was sloppy, and one store was so helpful it was so obvious they thought I was there to shoplift and I became uncomfortable to even browse. Th...

Also looking at manufacturer coupons primarily on drugstore products and you have to "APPLY" these offers via the app before checkout to use. That is not "AUTOMATIC" at all... So it appears to work like this: "DEAL" - "auto applied" - these look like the old s...

I thought Target Circle offers are automatic now? This does NOT appear to be the case. I just was looking at some items in their app, and had to explicitly clip an app offer for 20% off some random Good & Gather product, and this "offer" expires today. Or did they already reverse cours...