Retail Watchers

Things are going very bush league at Kmart. Yowza! ... & even Lands End is starting to fall into the game (in the Sears that sell it). Previously the purchases from their department / store within store have always been in blue paper handled bags, more like high-end mall/department stores. This...

Everything I've seen in the last decade has mostly indicated two things: - They REALLY don't like mansard roof restaurants. There were many from the 1970s or 1980s that had gotten a 2000s repaint (painting usually brown brick to red and white) that have since been torn down but I've even seen examp...

JR has closed?!?? noooooooooooo That place made for terrific treasure hunting. The few times I went in there I didn't see anything but junk and expired food. Granted I had not gone in there for several years, but I think the replacement stores will serve Rainier better than J&R did. The congest...

Several of the comments in this forum bring up an interesting point - If an acquiring company keeps the original banner name (Longs) but then adds a bunch of parent company paraphernalia (CVS/Target cash registers, packaging, etc), doesn't the customer see through all this? I've always thought acqu...

Pretty interesting they are doing another "distant" expansion. Though this is only about 1.5 hours from their Hood River Store, it still looks like an island geographically. I am disappointed they did not make it in Boise. I think Ridgefield may have demographics that are not all that dif...

I don't see this as a loss for Best Buy so much as another loss for the malls. These were at least professional looking store fronts with employees that appeared to be under some degree of supervision. Not a loss for Best Buy at all as I doubt the stores sold much of anything. My local mall which i...

Back in the day, Nordstrom also had stores in smaller markets like Yakima, Washington, Fairbanks, Alaska and Kenai, Alaska. These days, places like those would had never been considered for a Nordstrom. But I’m kind of surprised that Salem didn’t make the cut. But then again Vancouver, Washington o...

http://www.columbian.com/news/2018/mar/02/new-rosauers-may-not-be-clark-countys-last/ One advantage they have is that Ridgefield doesn't have a regular supermarket. This is a fast growing area though and has some potential. I'm not sure if upscale is the right fit though (remembering how they entere...

Bartlesville is an interesting closure. This will leave Dillards and some Stage banner (I forget which one but it was just like Bealls and maybe a 20,000 square foot space) as the only anchors in the Bartlesville Mall. Sears already closed. According to the mall website and Google Maps, it's a Good...

Was not aware of one opening in Clatskanie, but they are building one in Rainier, Oregon along with a new Grocery Outlet. These are being built on the site of what used to be a Sentry supermarket and more recently J&R Liquidators. Rainier hasn't had a true supermarket since the Sentry closed, an...