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Interesting story: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2024/04/fred-meyer-albertsons-internal-documents-show-fierce-competition-in-portland-before-merger-talks-we-must-stay-hungry.html Fred Meyer, Albertsons internal documents show fierce competition in Portland before merger talks: ‘We must stay hu...

It's not as clear from the desktop website, but MoC has updated their logo and font families to reflect some of their new movements in "local" food and branding. They definitely are branding the "Oregon-ness" so clearly not moving into SW Washington state (or elsewhere) soon. Fr...

The Home Depot in Tigard, Oregon went 100% self-checkout in the main part of the store. Pro is still staffed. Is this a test or a chain-wide trend? This is just an equipment change, and implementation of a complicated strategy that they call Assisted Checkout which is not quite self service but not...

Alpha8472 wrote: ↑April 8th, 2024, 5:37 pm 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

If all JCPenney stores looked like this, they might be doing better. They're buildings are so rundown.

The Home Depot in Tigard, Oregon went 100% self-checkout in the main part of the store. Pro is still staffed. Is this a test or a chain-wide trend?

I liked the puppets better. Those were at least memorable and fun to watch.

It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. https://kmph.com/news/local/fast-food-workers-blindsided-by-sudden-closure-of-fosters-freeze-in-lemoore Questionable what the cause of this is since it is a string of locations many outside CA. Not surprised MOD is closing units. MOD overexpanded a...

veteran+ wrote: ↑April 4th, 2024, 7:48 am https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail- ... -registers

Government imposed mandates on how businesses should be run is never a good thing.

This location is a gamble for New Seasons Market. The demographics in the area aren't as ideal as some of their other locations. If it works out, this opens up a lot of new locations for them down the road in areas they hadn't considered previously. I wish them luck!

Latest decor and appearance of New Seasons Markets, open in Milwaukie, Oregon. 10830 SE Oak St This is the former Albertsons that was briefly a Haggen. Report puts it at 35,000 square feet. It always felt comfortably large to me in the former ownership. New Seasons opens its newest in Milwaukie I c...