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by buckguy
March 2nd, 2024, 4:43 pm
Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
Topic: Bluemercury
Replies: 8
Views: 629

Re: Bluemercury

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by buckguy
March 1st, 2024, 6:12 am
Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
Topic: Bluemercury
Replies: 8
Views: 629

Re: Bluemercury

Different price range than Sephora or Ulta. The usual places for these are lifestyle centers, the surviving high end malls, urban neighborhoods, or inner ring suburban downtowns. It shouldn't be difficult to find 30 of those locations. Kiehl's (one of the lines they sell) closed a lot of stores dur...
by buckguy
March 1st, 2024, 5:50 am
Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
Topic: Bluemercury
Replies: 8
Views: 629

Re: Bluemercury

Different price range than Sephora or Ulta. The usual places for these are lifestyle centers, the surviving high end malls, urban neighborhoods, or inner ring suburban downtowns. It shouldn't be difficult to find 30 of those locations. Kiehl's (one of the lines they sell) closed a lot of stores dur...
by buckguy
March 1st, 2024, 5:45 am
Forum: Department Store Chains
Topic: JCPenney Closing 4 Stores in 2024
Replies: 6
Views: 19593

Re: JCPenney Closing 4 Stores in 2024

Nothing surprising here, Macy's and Sears departed both of these long ago: Shenango Valley is a dead mall whose owners want to redevelop the property as a multi-use town center. JCP has been in long litigation to prevent this and recently lost. It's the weakest mall in the Warren-Youngstown area and...
by buckguy
March 1st, 2024, 4:52 am
Forum: Northeast USA
Topic: Stop & Shop closures
Replies: 103
Views: 13484

Re: Stop & Shop closures

I'm not aware of any Giant-MD pharmacy closing without the store itself closing. All of the new and relocated stores Giant-MD has built near me have pharmacies in them. Giant-MD is the only super market chain in the DC area that has ever had much in the way of pharmacy market share. The Safeway and...
by buckguy
February 28th, 2024, 8:56 am
Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
Topic: IKEA Opening New Smaller Format Store in San Francisco
Replies: 47
Views: 5461

Re: IKEA Opening New Smaller Format Store in San Francisco

The point of the store is to serve people who aren't going to the suburban locations. It's not meant to serve carbound suburbanites and it makes no sense to approach it that way. It's basically an IKEA version of a retail model that's been a round for a long time. Lot's of furniture stores have had ...
by buckguy
February 28th, 2024, 7:57 am
Forum: Northeast USA
Topic: Stop & Shop closures
Replies: 103
Views: 13484

Re: Stop & Shop closures

Bi-Lo was dire. No other word for that chain. Also someone mentioned up thread somewhere about pharmacies being closed in Stop & Shop Stores in some cases. What is that all about. Does Ahold have a tract record of random pharmacy closures too? Albertsons/Safeway have ZERO tract record of pharma...
by buckguy
February 28th, 2024, 7:51 am
Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
Topic: REI Is Opening 10 Stores in 2024
Replies: 8
Views: 763

Re: REI Is Opening 10 Stores in 2024

They've built a variety of sizes for a very long time. The relatively new DC store is a flagship that replaced a 26K sf suburban location that opened in the 80s. The Pike & Rose store in North Bethesda is probably 40K sf and replaced a much smaller store a mile away. They have been doing smaller...
by buckguy
February 28th, 2024, 7:45 am
Forum: Specialty Retail Chains
Topic: Bluemercury
Replies: 8
Views: 629

Re: Bluemercury

Different price range than Sephora or Ulta. The usual places for these are lifestyle centers, the surviving high end malls, urban neighborhoods, or inner ring suburban downtowns. It shouldn't be difficult to find 30 of those locations. Kiehl's (one of the lines they sell) closed a lot of stores duri...
by buckguy
February 28th, 2024, 5:17 am
Forum: Department Store Chains
Topic: Macys Union Square closing
Replies: 26
Views: 1470

Re: Macys Union Square closing

Two pages of mostly speculation, hyperbole and no links. So here's one without a paywall that includes all the ambiguities: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ ... 691130.php