Retail Watchers

Jack In The Box had kiosks in their San Francisco Bay Area stores up until around 2016 or so. Customers hated them. Nobody used them. They didn't take cash, and it was complicated to order. Most of the time it was so frustrating that you would just order the bare minimum and pay. Ordering with a cas...

I was stuck in line at JCPenney, and many people were having problems using their JCPenney rewards program. The cashier would push signing up for Rewards and then people would have problems redeeming. Then there were multiple issues with the cashier asking if you wanted to apply for a credit card. T...

The Beef Gyro is only beef while the other Gyro Meat could be a mix with little to a lot of lamb. I would suspect it would be on the little side regarding the amount of lamb.

I actually liked the old store within a store decor when they remodeled in the last decade. That looked nice for a while. I have seen some new ones opened in the previous decade that looked decent without the store within a store decor. The issue is the central checkout where the single line is so l...

65,000 square feet of selling space in a 120,000 square foot 2 level anchor space formerly Lord and Taylor.

https://chainstoreage.com/first-look-jc ... ight-years

There were many Walmart fires in the San Francisco Bay Area over the years. The worst was in 2020 when the San Leandro Walmart was burned so badly it took 4 months to rebuild.

Arby's calls it Gryo Meat. Gyros are supposed to be beef and lamb. Lamb would affect the profit margins.

I tried the Grabango technology to checkout at Chevron Extra Mile in San Ramon, California. It is a competitor technology to Amazon Just Walk Out. I grabbed many items and put many back. I made it extremely difficult to tell what I was taking or putting back. I ended up with a Krispy Krunchy Chicken...

I'm wondering if the Extra Mile Rewards work with it, or do you have to use a real cash register.

Extra Mile has few deals unless you use your phone number.

They may run out of merchandise long before then.