Retail Watchers

The reopening date on the Bellevue Fred Meyer keeps getting pushed back further and further. The site above is showing March 31st now. As of the last time I drove by there a few days ago it was clear that there was still incomplete structural work on the exterior of the building. At the same time, ...

Here in Phoenix the CVS stores I've stopped in are almost spooky - no customers and weirdly laid out. I've wondered how they stay in business. Walgreens isn't exactly teeming with customers, but at least they don't feel like a mausoleum. I've been in some very dead CVS stores in Phoenix as well. Th...

If CVS closes a pharmacy in a Target store, is there anything that would prevent Target from partnering with another pharmacy operator and/or opening up a pharmacy on their own?

There's a former Albertsons turned Sports Authority that will become a mini-Target in Phoenix as well.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/bu ... /93982820/

These smaller stores in urban areas appears to be Target's new focus.

Astoundingly, this wouldn't be the smallest Tom Thumb in the chain once opened. About a mile west of the store at Lovers Lane and US-75 (which itself is a mile south of a smaller store near NorthPark Center) is the Snider Plaza store, a store that befits the Tom Thumb name at around 15k square feet...

It had been my observation that many stores Albertsons opened or remodeled lately no longer carried the Sav-On name. I noticed today a former Haggen in El Cajon that has the Sav-On logo on both the building and on the highway/street signage. However, inside the store there is no Sav-On fixture or a...

There is an interesting situation in Surprise, where Safeway and Albertsons have stores close to each other at 2 locations.... Grand Ave @ Reems-SWY and ABS are across from each other. Bell Rd @ Loop 303-ABS on the NW corner, SWY west a few blocks on the corner of Bell Rd @ Cotton Ln In addition to...

UPDATE: According to what a cashier told my wife, Safeway holds a lease on the current store (which will be closing) until 2032. No word on what happens to the Safeway fuel center in front of the current store, I believe it may be on a separate parcel of land and will continue to operate. Safeway wi...

Aldi stores are in cities without a Trader Joe's presence. As was pointed out earlier, this is untrue. And now, for even more proof, Aldi is coming to Monrovia. Trader Joe's has a store in Monrovia, and its national HQ is located there as well -- just a few blocks from the new Aldi. By the way, All...

So much for Safeway's predictable store layouts. The moment you start wheeling and dealing with acquisitions, creating "predictable store layouts" is like herding cats. Safeway has been dabbling with acquisitions and their associated problems with store layouts long before Albertsons came...