Retail Watchers

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.

Probably the same way they feel when they hear "Merry Christmas" the whole month of December... but it is easy to go ahead and delete/disregard the e-mail and be done with it. Throughout December you have no idea when you may be hit with a "Merry Christmas." To be fair, there's ...

So really the joke is on everyone who was picketing for these big wages, because most of the raise is going out the door to the IRS and FTB as soon as it becomes anything close to a "living wage" negating the entire activity. Taxes are marginal. If a single person is making 50k a year, th...

I do not understand why these chains do not understand what an issue drink pricing is and how it upsets/annoys customers. 2.99 for a fast food drink is simply too high. Wendys still has a 16oz drink at .99 here and Jack in the Box has a 16oz drink at 1.79 (just increased) but you cannot order eithe...

I do wonder would it have worked out differently if Haggen had warehouses, or would it have been the same end result? My (speculative) feeling is that it would have been the same. Haggen had no trouble getting products on the shelves. Their problem was high pricing, poor IT, and a lack of understan...

Stater is probably not interested in expanding to new markets, and is not an acceptable buyer for most SoCal stores because that would reduce competition. No, a closed, boarded up store subleased to a random fitness center that is under contract to remove and destroy or render permanently inoperabl...

Stater is probably not interested in expanding to new markets, and is not an acceptable buyer for most SoCal stores because that would reduce competition. Raley's might have been interested if they weren't preoccupied with Bashas. Save Mart I thought would have been a candidate, not sure what happen...

jamcool wrote: ↑March 27th, 2024, 6:52 am Blame who runs California and LA county…Newsom and Gascon.

I think that's the intention, and it seems to have worked on you. Businesses implement junk fees hoping that you will blame politicians instead. Just like Spirit Airlines' "Unintended Consequences of DOT Regulations" fee.

The exception for chains that have less than 60 locations is interesting. What if McDonald's rebranded their restaurants? For example, rebrand 59 restaurants as Ronald McDonald's Hamburgers or Grimace's Burgers. Would that allow below $20 per hour wages? I don't know about this law in particular, b...

With the Visa/Mastercard merchant settlement, there has been a lot to talk about in the credit card space. I think a subforum on this topic might see some interest among our members.