Retail Watchers

I would expect Rite Aid to move to ship from store. That is the trend in the industry to reduce the cost and environmental impact. Everyone is moving away from fulfillment centers after spending decades building them. Now you can close that expensive facility and replace it with a inexpensive cloud...

QT in Phoenix is mostly building along the freeway system-for example there will be two QT sites at the 91st Ave/I-10 interchange- one just N of I-10 and another S of I-10 (sharing a site with McDonald’s and Starbucks) QT also doesn't seem to mind buying plots in existing shopping centers or even b...

Second, they will also be found to have not divested stores where it is needed out of the simple reason of greed. If it's a highly profitable store they will have kept it, overlap or not. Some of the odd behaviors seen like rebranding of some Albertsons companies stores will be revealed to have bee...

I hope they don't come out with this.

I enjoy my combination of 5% RedCard and Target Circle occasional discounts.

I won't join any program that costs me more for the same benefits I currently receive.

They should have done this a while ago. Maverik hasn't built many locations there and hasn't done overly well. They have a couple very high performing locations though. One of those very high performing Maverik units is at the next exit from this first QT. However the Maverik is extremely well posi...

I still wonder how Fred Meyer / Ralph’s / Fry’s / Smith’s would have done as a stand-alone company versus the Kroger merger, and how much different the grocery retail scene would look today given what others have mentioned about Ralph’s volume. I’m guessing the Fred Meyer experiment in California w...

If memory serves, in the late 80s in Metro Detroit Farmer Jack clearly led the market with about a 20% share of the market and Kroger/Chatham/Great Scott/A&P each had about 10% (Chatham was a little more successful in Macomb County). And now...Meijer entered; Kroger slurped up everyone else and...

Unknown where he is going. Pretty sure he was to be the CFO of the larger merged entity. He joined Kroger in 2008. I read he is going to Costco. https://www.cfo.com/news/kroger-cfo-millerchip-todd-foley-albertsons-merger-grocery-interim/706642/#:~:text=Gary%20Millerchip%20relinquished%20his%20role,...

I believe Walmart is trying to take advantage of CVS's, Walgreen's and Kroger's troubles with some of these remodels. I was in a busy (probably busiest I've seen) Neighborhood Market in the Sunnyslope neighborhood of Phoenix today. Sunnyslope is a weird 3 ish mile x 2 mile slice of Phoenix that is r...

I think we're reading too much into the first two stores to open, these Neighborhood Markets. The Atlanta store is a downgraded supercenter (downgrading into a Neighborhood Market) due to arson issues which closed the store and is not really "new". https://atlanta.urbanize.city/post/walmar...