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- April 16th, 2024, 4:39 am
- Forum: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Ohio
- Replies: 3
- Views: 304
Re: Ohio
It's not a law, it's the decision of a professional board. They are given regulatory power over the profession by law, but this kind of rule making takes them into areas that probably are more difficult for them to enforce. It's not like setting standards to sit for a licensing exam or be able to re...
- April 15th, 2024, 4:48 am
- Forum: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Cracker Barrel closes Medford, OR location
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1111
Re: Cracker Barrel closes Medford, OR location
Away from Portland, Eugene and a few other places, Oregon has any number of cities where they should have been able to do fine. They are more of a breakfast place, although I think they get an early bird special type clientele for dinner, so closing at 9:00 won't lose them much business.
- April 14th, 2024, 7:14 am
- Forum: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Downtown Denver (Central Business District) Retail
- Replies: 4
- Views: 547
Re: Downtown Denver (Central Business District) Retail
I was there not long before COVID. There was some retail development around the big hotels, but nothing really memorable. It's clear that the downtown business district once spanned close to a mile along 16th and adjacent streets toward Union Station--I stayed in a repurposed warehouse/industrial bu...
- April 7th, 2024, 6:13 pm
- Forum: Non Region-Specific
- Topic: Amazon Fresh, take 2
- Replies: 78
- Views: 6867
Re: Amazon Fresh, take 2
A small-format Amazon Fresh in Seattle is closing: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-to-close-fresh-grocery-store-on-pike-street-on-capitol-hill/ A similar format DC store closed today. They did a 75% off clearance. The store closed on very short notice and not everyone was able t...
- April 3rd, 2024, 6:20 pm
- Forum: Mid-Atlantic USA
- Topic: Grocery Outlet Mid-Atlantic Expansion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 569
Re: Grocery Outlet Mid-Atlantic Expansion
A few annotations and observations: Colerain= Cincinnati area - NW suburbs Union = Dayton area Boardman = Pennsylvania is irrelevant; it's suburban Youngstown and is a major retail hub; this is the same media market as New Castle, PA Several Maryland stores are in the Baltimore area (Owings Mills, G...
- April 3rd, 2024, 12:09 pm
- Forum: Mid-Atlantic USA
- Topic: Crucial times for Shoppers
- Replies: 256
- Views: 113377
Re: Crucial times for Shoppers
My impression of St. Mary's is that it's growing but that the incomes are pretty disparate, depending on the town. The economy depends a lot on a Navy base and regional tourism, as well as retirees. Retired people, even if they're well-off, tend to be price conscious and if you add-in people in seas...
- April 1st, 2024, 8:28 am
- Forum: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Meanwhile in Canada, they're building Malls
- Replies: 10
- Views: 811
Re: Meanwhile in Canada, they're building Malls
The weather is probably also a factor. There is higher demand for indoor malls in places where it is too cold to walk around outdoors for a portion of the year. That was always supposed to be the saving grace of malls, but it doesn't work that way----look at all the dead enclosed malls we have rega...
- March 29th, 2024, 5:53 am
- Forum: Shopping Centers
- Topic: Meanwhile in Canada, they're building Malls
- Replies: 10
- Views: 811
Re: Meanwhile in Canada, they're building Malls
They're building a mall, not malls, plural. Beyond that Canada has 1/3 less retail square footage/person than US even though the median income is 80% of the US, with less disparity between high and low income, which should encourage more mid-market retail. Despite this, Canada has lost a lot of depa...
- March 28th, 2024, 9:28 am
- Forum: Department Store Chains
- Topic: 31k sq ft Macys to open in Elk Grove, CA
- Replies: 7
- Views: 785
Re: 31k sq ft Macys to open in Elk Grove, CA
You guys make this out to be a new thing---it isn't. Most of the earliest department store branches were small--like 10-20-30K sf small. They were in suburban downtowns, satellite town downtowns and early shopping centers. What usually led to the closure of these stores was the opening of bigger mal...
- March 27th, 2024, 3:07 pm
- Forum: Southeast USA
- Topic: Kroger shuttering distribution spoke in Miami
- Replies: 5
- Views: 863
Re: Kroger shuttering distribution spoke in Miami
This and Austin seem like pretty high profile retreats. Obviously they didn't understand the Miami market and probably didn't have the right merchandise mix. Or you know, actual locations :mrgreen: I wonder how much market share Kroger has with their delivery-only business...I can't imagine it bein...