Retail Watchers

Lots of broadstroking, rationalizing and conflating going on but, oh well

Necessary Evil is not free.

This all makes me smile. More than half of these fast food places can disappear and we would all be the better for it as a society. So the franchisees can handle this new overhead? Good, close up. Perhaps non fast food sit down restaurants will do better. 👍🤞 Why? So other businesses could open up a...

This is what all employees received this morning: From: Lynsi Snyder <noreply@innout.com> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2024 09:00 AM Subject: Happy Resurrection Day to You and Your Family! https://mcusercontent.com/c4443fdec27f9295ac457044d/images/6451de8d-3ca4-f9fb-63bf-a8fccfe988c8.jpg I mean, wow! Com...

This all makes me smile.

More than half of these fast food places can disappear and we would all be the better for it as a society.

So the franchisees can handle this new overhead? Good, close up. Perhaps non fast food sit down restaurants will do better.

I went to the Streets of Tanasbourne store yesterday. Some observations...it's a two-level store in a lifestyle center that is already set up for a Macy's smaller format store. About half of the top floor is furniture. About a 1/3 of the first floor is the disorganized mess better known as Backstag...

I have lost count of how many studies have been conducted linking "POS shrink" numbers to self checkouts. The nexus is real. The only variances are when the number of staff comes close to the number of idiot customers working these machines. What I would love to see are the productivity nu...

I sure hope this causes C&S to disappear from the scheme as well. Nothing that C&S could do with these stores will be beneficial for consumers or employees. It is like sending a live body to the morgue. Quote of the year candidate here. I do not believe that any deal involving the divestitu...

I've been surprised they haven't closed more locations. Office Depot keeps limping along in Reno. Multiple locations. These stores have a trickle of customers but they don't have many customers, transaction sizes are small, and the employees seem bored. The product mix feels uninspired but the stor...

I guess I have been lucky because I have not encountered these fees. I don't do fast food or fast casual any longer but I do frequent the better restaurants which we have in abundance on the Sunset Strip, Santa Monica Bl., Melrose Av. and many more. I also do not frequent big chain (Cheesefactory, e...

I doubt C&S is out, I think this just gets them more stores. They have a signed purchase agreement and until FTC formally denies them as a buyer I do not see them going away. Great deal for C&S. If I were them no way I'd be "out" with the bargain price... If C&S does go away I...