Retail Watchers

Target appears to be re-entering the live plant business; there are live plant displays in front of the Reno Target. It is also forecasted to go to a low of 31 degrees in Reno tonight. Most other stores don't have many live plants yet; the grocery stores that typically throw a few racks outside don'...

I visited a couple of stores today. Credit Card machines were down. They were only taking cash via handwritten signs on the door and in one store via a reminder every 5 minutes over the PA. The stock is running out differently at different stores, but it would best be qualified as fair to poor. The...

The past couple times I've gone into Ace Stores I've left empty handed due to the stores not having what I needed. The stores were semi messy, price labeling was sloppy, and one store was so helpful it was so obvious they thought I was there to shoplift and I became uncomfortable to even browse. Th...

Also looking at manufacturer coupons primarily on drugstore products and you have to "APPLY" these offers via the app before checkout to use. That is not "AUTOMATIC" at all... So it appears to work like this: "DEAL" - "auto applied" - these look like the old s...

I thought Target Circle offers are automatic now? This does NOT appear to be the case. I just was looking at some items in their app, and had to explicitly clip an app offer for 20% off some random Good & Gather product, and this "offer" expires today. Or did they already reverse cours...

I know that my independent pharmacy (top rated in West Hollywood) struggles with reimbursements. He showed me the numbers. He is 1/4 of million dollars behind in reimbursements. Like WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Talk to your doctors about this. You will hear the same story but even higher $$$ dependi...

A couple of those things are built in intentionally. The "deposit" for the cart gets the customer to return it to the rack (which most times are only by the store, unlike other stores that have spots around the lot), thus no need to pay someone to collect them, and therefore that salary s...

Not sure if they still do or not, but Price Chopper (Market 32) based here in NY did at one point have such a fee for cash back with a debit card. As far as I remember, they were the only ones that ever did that in this area. That is a chain who started charging bag fees before they were legally ma...

What concerns me is how "credit card surcharges" will be impacted by this or IF they will be impacted. I am seeing credit card surcharges at far too many restaurants and even seeing them at some smaller retailers as of late. They are "legal" - and you don't have to pay with a cr...

For some reason the GNC.com website is now selling a bunch of Rite Aid brand vitamins. This may not seem unusual since GNC has had a contract to supply Rite Aid brand vitamins for decades now. But this is very recent the GNC.com sells Rite Aid vitamins. Also most/all of these are "out of stock...