Retail Watchers

It appears they are vacating Utah entirely (unless their footprint has significantly grown) -
Salt Lake City
Sandy
Taylorsville
Murray

Last week, one of the chains around here had some type of pork chops for $1.89/lb. How the heck do people live out there? I get a modest pension and I can actually pay my bills with it and not dip into savings. True, the house is paid for and all that but even so I don't know how you west coast fol...

Here they just assumed the memberships of the (now failed again) Bally/B-Fit gyms:
https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2020/ ... tness.html

Good LORD! This was too good to not share. J.C. Penney Co. had accidentally renewed its lease with the mall several months ago and had to tell RockStep it was a mistake, giving the mall ownership fair warning about what was coming. Source: https://www.wctrib.com/business/retail/6526370-Willmar-JCPen...

Shopping in Murray, Utah at Fashion Place Mall under the shadow of COVID-19
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... l-in-utah/

This probably wouldn't have made the news, but one of the newscast producers children works at this store. :lol: Cute story and really nice their community took some time to recognize their graduates. https://www.kptv.com/news/portland-qfc-holds-special-ceremony-for-graduating-workers/article_7447c9...

It was in today's The Sunday Oregonian with a large emphasis on Good & Gather.

If this is too political, I understand (or if it needs to move to the thread on stores and looting) - I felt Vivek's words were very kind and I hope that more diversity can continue to be a part of higher level positions at The Albertsons Companies. https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/newsroom/06-05...

Edit to my earlier (spoiler warning hidden) post - I found out that Moscow, ID no longer has a traditionally anchored mall either. So shoppers in that region will have to drive to Spokane, Boise, or Missoula for regional/traditional shopping needs (or use online ordering I suppose). As for the Chris...

While almost none of their locations sell fuel, the Plaid Pantry stores are bringing back their "summer special" of 79c medium fountain drinks. As I honestly don't care for convenience stores much and PP's are some of the most irregular out there, I don't know what a medium is. They also o...