Retail Watchers

The Manitowoc, WI store just closed as well. Its onetime auto center is now the only thing of any kind left at the Mid-Cities Mall.

On their home turf (WI), Shopko seems to be doing just fine. The stores are well-stocked, well-maintained (all I've seen are very clean and well-organized, and most have been remodeled in the last few years), and seem busy enough to me. I shop there fairly often; partially out of "anti-Walmart&...

I'm still holding out for a Leggett version:



(Well, what if...)

Ah, yet another in a seemingly endless line of test-market concepts Kmart will do nothing with...

Could this possibly be on the road towards the next Dixie Square?

The last time I was in Milwaukee, I noticed that a former Checker Auto Parts store had been rebranded as O'Reilly: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4354108774_eab61f72e4.jpg (The store, incidentally, is reusing a twin-pylon sign originally used by an adjacent Krambo/Kroger supermarket in the 1950...

In northeast Wisconsin, the supermarket scene essentially consists of... * Copps and Pick 'n Save. Formerly separate chains; now one and the same under the ownership of Roundy's, a Milwaukee grocery supplier that expanded into retailing in the last decade. * Festival Foods, an expanding chain of 13 ...