Retail Watchers

Used to be that a lot of Vegas supermarkets ran 24 hours, due to the fact that Vegas is a 24/7 town.

You apparently haven’t tried Bar-S

Walgreens has been closing down the Village Medical sites in several markets-mainly in Florida. These are the clinics that were built on existing Walgreens sites-cutting the size of the Walgreens store in half. With Village Medical gone, what do they do with the now empty space?

What goes in the Midwest (or Germany ) often doesn’t do well in the South, especially not having access to certain brands/foods that Aldi won’t stock (No Duke’s mayo? No Blue Bell ice cream?)

I suspect most of those FD stores are in certain neighborhoods with high crime rates.
And does DG take over the closed FD sites.

Hard to keep a cleanliness/friendlyness campaign when you run a mostly franchise operation, most of who are one and two store operators with long term contracts who basically run a liquor store with Slurpees.

It looks like 7-11 isn’t going to drop the Speedway brand anytime soon. They just started a major ad campaign for the Speedway brand which includes offering Slurpees and Big Gulps. What seems to be happening is the 7-11 banner being emphasized in urban markets, with Speedway in the more rural areas-...

How do the Safeways in the Colorado Mountain towns do compared to Denver? I suspect that is the cash cow for that division, (the way smaller towns are for Safeway in AZ.) The only major rival in those mountain towns is City Market-whose stores are very different from partner King Soopers.

See, that's the thing. If they want to just have a good profitable division without forcing to show growth, Ralphs is it. If they want #1 or a close #2 in their markets, maybe Ralphs isn't the place they should focus on. If they want to just show growth, they can do so organically, you know, actual...

QT in Phoenix is mostly building along the freeway system-for example there will be two QT sites at the 91st Ave/I-10 interchange- one just N of I-10 and another S of I-10 (sharing a site with McDonald’s and Starbucks)