Retail Watchers

I have been in their Save-On-Foods, Urban Fare and Price Smart Foods stores in British Columbia. Save-On is close to a Safeway in terms of product mix and operation. They acquired Safeway on Vancouver Island as Sobeys already had Thrifty Foods. Urban Fare is similar to Metropolitian Market. Price Sm...

This might be a crazy thought but if the merger doesn’t happen, do you think Albertsons might try to buy Rite Aid out of bankruptcy? I’m thinking that looking in retrospect, Rite Aid shareholders wouldn’t be holding worthless stock right now had they allowed the Albertsons Rite Aid merger to happen!

It has been shown that Albertsons is ok with operating multiple banners in a region. Puget Sound for example has Albertsons, Safeway and Haggen. On the Kroger side of things it also has QFC and Fred Meyer. In the past, it seems that Kroger likes to have just one banner. But in the Puget Sound exampl...

I’m a Washington native and very familiar with the Downtown Seattle Nordstrom. I’m also familiar with the current issues of Downtown Seattle. I have feared Nordstrom closing the Downtown Seattle store and moving offices to Bellevue and designating the Bellevue Square store as the flagship! But accor...

I could see the reasoning for the lawsuit if the restaurant refused to accommodate. But it sounds like they were more than willing to try to help a handicapped person! Too bad A&W corporate couldn’t help them!

Trader Joe’s will be moving to the old Sears space at Everett Mall: https://www.heraldnet.com/news/trader-joes-to-move-store-to-everett-mall-application-says/?%3Futm_medium=social&utm_source=Facebook_HeraldNet_organic&fbclid=IwAR2Y___l_Mpt56qCzeD45ZPcJnzmkFYtn_YGQq17S4saKnS3HanPnICNAtI_aem_A...

I kind of wonder how the Kroger/Albertsons merger will play out in Burien and Renton, WA if allowed to proceed?! In Burien, the only full line grocers are the Fred Meyer on 1st Ave S & 143rd St and two Safeway stores. The closest Safeway to the Fred Meyer is at Burien Plaza on SW 148th St. The o...

It has been mentioned that some of the retained QFC's could be rebranded as Haggen. I think that could possibly work for stores like University Village, Mercer Street etc. But I am wondering if that could also backfire given the Haggen fiasco in terms of pricing and promotion of the stores when it ...

The Commons really needs to get rid of the interior mall and make it an urban village like what many struggling malls are doing. Yes, still have some retail but do the thing with housing, lodging, offices, restaurants and maybe even a park or new city hall for Federal Way?

It has been mentioned that some of the retained QFC's could be rebranded as Haggen. I think that could possibly work for stores like University Village, Mercer Street etc. But I am wondering if that could also backfire given the Haggen fiasco in terms of pricing and promotion of the stores when it c...