Retail Watchers

UPDATE: I drove by this store (Greenway / Tatum) last night and the renovations are well underway. They've made some changes to the fascade since the Albertsons days and have added windows near what will be the Starbucks seating area. It appears that this store will feature the Colorful Lifestyle de...

I shop at Fry's and Target regularly. If I have a few items, I prefer to use the self checkout. If I have a cartful of items, it's almost always faster to use a staffed checkout. Luckily, I have the option at those stores. I've waited for several minutes at an Albertsons and a Safeway store with jus...

http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/real-estate/catherine-reagor/2016/10/25/iconic-bashas-store-wont-part-proposed-midtown-phoenix-development/92730246/ This isn't the first time Bashas' has sold a store to a developer. They sold a Food City store a couple years ago in a shopping center that was re...

I'm not going to go off on a tangent regarding unions and my opinion of them, but a company just can't retreat when it smells competition, that's incredibly bad business decisions. The wide swath of destruction from Walmart has been from companies who largely could not or did not conform to the fut...

Thank you storewanderer and arizonaguy. Definitely checking the area out on my way home today. Does anyone know whether the Walmart at Southern and Rural in Tempe started out as something else and, if so, what it was? The ceilings are very low and the building just doesn't look like something Walma...

I think there may be a Fred Meyer wall standing on some portion of Bethany Home/35th but the Wal Mart shows no relationship at all to it. That is not a pleasant Wal Mart. What a terrible spot for Fred Meyer to have made a full line store debut in Phoenix. Whoever picked that location... I believe t...

Last ditch effort to save performance by doing a remodel? That could be part of it. I think the bigger issue has to deal with the expansion of non-union price impact chains like Aldi and Smart & Final. These remodels were done before Aldi announced their expansion and before Smart & Final p...

Thank you storewanderer and arizonaguy. Definitely checking the area out on my way home today. Does anyone know whether the Walmart at Southern and Rural in Tempe started out as something else and, if so, what it was? The ceilings are very low and the building just doesn't look like something Walma...

The store locator on Safeway.com now lists all stores owned by the combined company if they're located in places where Albertsons and a Safeway banner overlap as long as it's in a division that operates both an Albertsons and Safeway or former Safeway bannered stores. The store locator on Safeway.co...

The intersection in question is Greenway and Tatum in Phoenix where Safeway is moving into a closed Albertsons across the street. Don't forget the Frys Signature Marketplace at Tatum and Shea (another Albertsons at that intersection also). Tatum Blvd. from Deer Valley Rd. to Shea Blvd. is a really ...