Retail Watchers

Those are all shelf products, not fast food chains.

With talk of stores such as Costco and Sam's Club cracking down on membership sharing, I got to wondering about how big of an issue this is at Bi-Mart. They advertise a $5.00 Lifetime family membership, but the cards do not bear names and are a relatively thin card with a number that tends to wear ...

When will Sam's Club Crack down on membership deal abuse. Right now you can get the $25 online membership sign up deal. You could have any other family member sign up and then you get a second card for a family member. People will sign up with different emails or add an apartment number to your add...

Bring back Supre-Macy?

Blame who runs California and LA county…Newsom and Gascon.

Some restaurant chains claim that the margin on fountain soda is thin. So they claim signing an exclusive contract is the only way to keep soda fountains profitable. You see restaurants restricting refills or charging for refills. Are margins that thin or are they claiming so to make more of a prof...

No major restaurant chain serves both Coke and Pepsi. This is not entirely accurate, especially when factoring in airport locations, some of which have contracts (which also apply to restaurants in the airport) stipulating only one brand can be sold throughout the airport. The Detroit Airport is on...

Utah now allows regular ABV beer to be sold at grocery stores. Stronger brews and wine are still only available through the state liquor stores.

Also Subway is now owned by Inspire Brands-the same company that owns Jimmy John’s, Arby’s, Sonic, Dunkin, and Buffalo Wild Wings. BWW and now Subway serve Pepsi, the other Inspire chains serve Coke.

Another excuse not to eat at Subway. There are better places for subs.