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jamcool wrote: ↑May 30th, 2024, 12:51 am 67th @ Indian School was a former Smith’s …one of the first Smith’s stores built in the Phoenix area around 1990.

Definite Smiths. Tan shelves and all.

Let me rephrase: Darden Corp. used to have restaurants with Darden on the FRONT outside. Do they still have restaurants named Darden? When was this/what did these units sell? I wonder if the company founder started these separately at some point? https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/73/Dar...

I think 19th/Union Hills is an original Frys but it is difficult to tell. Maybe a severely expanded store?

A previous Lucky/Save Mart in Stockton, CA has reopened as "Cocos Food." Cocos Food seems to be a chain with another location in Sterling, VA. I don't really understand the geography... This seems to be a Korean focused store yet Stockton has almost no Korean population so I am really conf...

They're taking over two long closed Raleys and Save Mart units. It is interesting they will do two stores at the same time. Cardenas seems pretty stagnant in NorCal, they aren't doing as much as I would have expected them to do as far as expansion goes. I suspect this will result in further Vallarta...

It looks like save mart/food maxx may also follow suit more because their machines are outdated than anything else. Save Mart has a lease on the machines. All of their machines are from 2016 or newer but they are already in terrible condition and barely functioning. Raleys has similar machines but ...

Reading the announcement what Amazon is doing is just starting to offer weekly sale prices. Did they not do this before? Now that I think about it on my last few visits there were VERY few items on sale in center store. Everything was regular price and the regular prices were HIGH (like Safeway leve...

Another group of bay area stores is removing self checkout. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/safeway-self-checkout-kiosks/3551337/ Unfortunate this is happening. Clearly these machines... the retailers all think these machines are causing theft. It will be interesting to see what happens going ...

I went last weekend to the Amazon Fresh in Paramus, NJ. (It was remarkably terrible and completely empty. There was one cashier with no line.) I'd estimate the majority of the storebrand items are Amazon Fresh, but some are Happy Belly, which is the brand I remember seeing in the past. Is the Amazo...

It appears Dollar Tree will not be using the 99 Only name and says they are reopening these as Dollar Tree. I guess I'm not surprised but they will fail with oversized stores in their current format. Also some group called "Socal dollar store llc" bid and won about 7 stores. I can't find a...