Retail Watchers

Looks like Albertsons lost the auction.

The Strack and the Van Til families as well as some others put in a successful bid for 20 stores.

http://www.nwitimes.com/business/retail ... 81144.html

jamcool wrote:Most of the stores closing are Kmarts, including the Northern/I 17 store. This means there are only a couple stores left in the PHX area

That store never stood a chance with the new Walmart Supercenter being built at MetroCenter 1 mile north.

They just announced 43 more store closings:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/20 ... 459363001/

There is a lot of misinformation in this thread. First of all, I am not employed by Fred Meyer but am very familiar with their operations. If you look around the Portland market they have been remodeling many stores to expand the food department with additional space for Nutrition (in most cases do...

jamcool wrote:Apparently the Walgreens-Rite Aid merger is kaput

The merger is, but Walgreens is still buying 1/2 of Rite Aid's stores.

I had a chance to get some photos of Albertson's "flagship" store in Arizona (Desert Ridge) as well as recently opened Safeway (in a former closed Albertsons at Tatum and Greenway in Phoenix). There's a rumor that the Desert Ridge Albertsons store will become a Safeway. The store recently...

I learned there is only one Super Kmart remaining, in Warren, OH. It is a store from 1995 with its original interior, but condition looks pretty good. I cannot see how it makes sense to support just one Super Kmart. Even if grocery is supplied by Spartan/Nash, I still do not know how this makes sen...

The dark floor idea is like Haggen, but I like it. It does not look good next to the lifestyle colored tan flooring at all, though. Still, all of this looks far better and more inspired than anything happening with their interiors in NorCal division. It actually looks much nicer in person. The colo...

And tons of reader comments about similar conditions at other locations of Safeway. When will this chain learn to staff its stores? The NorCal Division needs an enema in its management from the very top and as far down as has been allowing this to happen. This has been going on too long, upper mana...

I had a chance to get some photos of Albertson's "flagship" store in Arizona (Desert Ridge) as well as recently opened Safeway (in a former closed Albertsons at Tatum and Greenway in Phoenix). There's a rumor that the Desert Ridge Albertsons store will become a Safeway. The store recently ...