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by veteran+
March 31st, 2024, 11:04 am
Forum: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Here come the price increases!
Replies: 60
Views: 2012

Re: Here come the price increases!

This all makes me smile. More than half of these fast food places can disappear and we would all be the better for it as a society. So the franchisees can handle this new overhead? Good, close up. Perhaps non fast food sit down restaurants will do better. 👍🤞 Why? So other businesses could open up a...
by veteran+
March 31st, 2024, 9:14 am
Forum: Restaurant Chains
Topic: In & Out
Replies: 22
Views: 630

In & Out

This is what all employees received this morning: From: Lynsi Snyder <noreply@innout.com> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2024 09:00 AM Subject: Happy Resurrection Day to You and Your Family! https://mcusercontent.com/c4443fdec27f9295ac457044d/images/6451de8d-3ca4-f9fb-63bf-a8fccfe988c8.jpg I mean, wow! Com...
by veteran+
March 30th, 2024, 12:20 pm
Forum: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Here come the price increases!
Replies: 60
Views: 2012

Re: Here come the price increases!

This all makes me smile.

More than half of these fast food places can disappear and we would all be the better for it as a society.

So the franchisees can handle this new overhead? Good, close up. Perhaps non fast food sit down restaurants will do better.

👍🤞
by veteran+
March 30th, 2024, 8:27 am
Forum: Department Store Chains
Topic: Macys Stores Closing by 2026
Replies: 54
Views: 4735

Re: Macys Stores Closing by 2026

I went to the Streets of Tanasbourne store yesterday. Some observations...it's a two-level store in a lifestyle center that is already set up for a Macy's smaller format store. About half of the top floor is furniture. About a 1/3 of the first floor is the disorganized mess better known as Backstag...
by veteran+
March 30th, 2024, 8:17 am
Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
Topic: Costco Door Scanning Rolling Out
Replies: 25
Views: 617

Re: Costco Door Scanning Rolling Out

I have lost count of how many studies have been conducted linking "POS shrink" numbers to self checkouts. The nexus is real. The only variances are when the number of staff comes close to the number of idiot customers working these machines. What I would love to see are the productivity nu...
by veteran+
March 29th, 2024, 9:22 am
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 412
Views: 26960

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

I sure hope this causes C&S to disappear from the scheme as well. Nothing that C&S could do with these stores will be beneficial for consumers or employees. It is like sending a live body to the morgue. Quote of the year candidate here. I do not believe that any deal involving the divestitu...
by veteran+
March 29th, 2024, 9:07 am
Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
Topic: What's Office Depot's future
Replies: 22
Views: 734

Re: What's Office Depot's future

I've been surprised they haven't closed more locations. Office Depot keeps limping along in Reno. Multiple locations. These stores have a trickle of customers but they don't have many customers, transaction sizes are small, and the employees seem bored. The product mix feels uninspired but the stor...
by veteran+
March 29th, 2024, 8:58 am
Forum: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Restaurant Fees
Replies: 26
Views: 1094

Re: Restaurant Fees

I guess I have been lucky because I have not encountered these fees. I don't do fast food or fast casual any longer but I do frequent the better restaurants which we have in abundance on the Sunset Strip, Santa Monica Bl., Melrose Av. and many more. I also do not frequent big chain (Cheesefactory, e...
by veteran+
March 28th, 2024, 9:15 am
Forum: Non Region-Specific
Topic: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact
Replies: 412
Views: 26960

Re: 🛒 Kroger-Albertsons Merger: National Impact

I doubt C&S is out, I think this just gets them more stores. They have a signed purchase agreement and until FTC formally denies them as a buyer I do not see them going away. Great deal for C&S. If I were them no way I'd be "out" with the bargain price... If C&S does go away I...
by veteran+
March 27th, 2024, 9:28 am
Forum: Northwest, Rockies, & Alaska USA
Topic: Trader Joe's opening in northern Idaho
Replies: 19
Views: 704

Re: Trader Joe's opening in northern Idaho

storewanderer wrote: March 27th, 2024, 12:49 am Seems to be quite a theme here of negative comments on in-stock conditions at Trader Joe's...

And the other thing is due to the limited assortment if they are out of stock on something, there is often not another suitable alternative...
Exactly!