Retail Watchers

See, that's the thing. If they want to just have a good profitable division without forcing to show growth, Ralphs is it. If they want #1 or a close #2 in their markets, maybe Ralphs isn't the place they should focus on. If they want to just show growth, they can do so organically, you know, actual...

I wonder if they try to pull a 7-Eleven and ignore the agreement then close the deal... Flagrant disregard for the law seems to be accepted by today's FTC. What exactly would/could stop them? 7-Eleven didn't ignore anything. There was no court order blocking the acquisition, because the FTC didn't ...

The thing is Kroger has more general merchandise in its stores than most other grocers. A lot of that merchandising is handled by Fred Meyer. Take away Fred Meyer and who will handle that? What do you mean by "handled by Fred Meyer"? Are Fred Meyer buyers placing orders for toilet paper a...

Washing cups/plates/ etc requires hot water, requiring more energy use, detergent which is a pollutant, and creates waste water. More pollution and energy use than a paper cup, which comes from a tree that is grown to make paper or even a foam cup. Do you have a source for this? From what I have se...

The fact is that they are, and will always be, beholden to Wall Street. Wall Street expects positive comp sales come hell or high water. There is no good reason for the massive price increases that have been landing at Albertsons and Kroger stores the last 45 days other than they are cycling the ma...

Could be - they also offer the option to pay their bill in cash at these locations (knowing that from a neighbor who we went there to do that a couple times due to issues with their cards/checking account as they would normally have used). Yeah, paying cash makes sense to me. I believe you can also...

Rather suprising, considering work-from-home has decimated demand for tech office space. I wonder what role the NIMBYs played in this.

Another good one is Charter/Spectrum. Go to their physical location to pay a bill. They have pinpads. They take your card and hand key it in the system rather than running through the pinpad. I have asked about the pinpads and was told "those are for future use." I never realized you coul...

That matters because the average Ralphs cannot bring in as much revenue as larger stores in surrounding divisions. Additions like fuel and Pick Up were considered additional revenue for the stores and that has been very important to Kroger. The pharmacy is very important to Kroger, most of their di...

They are too small, most lack fuel stations, they were slower to adopt Clicklist/Pickup than other divisions, they have a lower percentage of stores with pharmacies than most other Kroger divisions (QFC has fewer, F4L has almost none); based on posts here they seem to have a poor reputation with cu...