Retail Watchers

Looking forward to the $1 sales on these items this summer. In the mean time wasting space on stuff the core Wal Mart customer will not buy that is too expensive as well will only cause additional confusion with customers. I'm guessing the average Walmart customer is an older, middle-class exurbani...

Yet Denny's and IHOP seem to continue to be relevant... it is a mystery to me how or why. There are some reasons for success at Denny's. Denny's has marketed themselves on being "always open", unlike Coco's/Carrows, who didn't usually have 24 hour service. Denny's is one of the last fast ...

A couple things are happening: They have increased prices so much it is showing higher sales People seem to like to order this food via delivery services, they take a nice mark up when those services are used, furthering high margin sales I don't see anyone "flocking" to McDonalds. The onl...

Or you can come to Reno and look at the Safeway opened in 2021 as it is basically a clone too, in terms of interior layout... Unfortunately Safeway does not have the windows along the entire front, but Safeway has a nice window area on the produce entrance side of the store but that is just for the ...

Still no bankruptcy filing...?

The longer this draws out... the worse this gets...

Back on topic, Colorado's AG is holding a listening session on the merger: https://www.kktv.com/2023/01/30/colorado-attorney-general-holds-listening-session-possible-kroger-albertsons-merger/ AG Phil Weiser met with community leaders in Gunnison at Western Colorado University. Gunnison has two groc...

When I was in Las Vegas I noticed the Sam's there had probably 5 times the number of Scan and Go savings offers of a California store, basically everything that you could pick up with two hands and fit in a cart. At a California store most of those offers would be regular instant savings, no app re...

If...and that's a big if, this merger goes through, to think that Kroger would keep one of their bannered stores instead of a better located Albertsons/Safeway store would be a bad business decision. There is no way that a combined Kroger/Albertsons would let La Jolla become part of Spinco. They wo...

The Safeway's in Fresno were sold prior to the sale of the southern California Safeways to Vons in 1988. This averted any FTC issues as there were already Vons in Fresno at that date and the Safeway's that were in Fresno were substandard as you point out. Safeway still had 3 stores in Fresno in app...

Store's still not ready for showtime and still a few months away from opening, but some preliminary construction pictures show it does have Drive Up & Go (limiting square footage) and has Heritage decor. They also stripped out all the flooring and ceiling tiles of the old Minyard/Fiesta so it's...