Retail Watchers

The exception for chains that have less than 60 locations is interesting. What if McDonald's rebranded their restaurants? For example, rebrand 59 restaurants as Ronald McDonald's Hamburgers or Grimace's Burgers. Would that allow below $20 per hour wages? I don't know about this law in particular, b...

With the Visa/Mastercard merchant settlement, there has been a lot to talk about in the credit card space. I think a subforum on this topic might see some interest among our members.

Perch (rooftop bar in downtown LA) now has a 4.5% "security fee". Did you ask about what that fee was and if it was optional? I am curious how they would describe the exact use of a "security fee." I probably wouldn't have asked at the end of the visit to a bar to the server who...

I'd expect it is more likely they'll receive offers on one of the flagship secondary stores, like the South Coast Plaza men's store or Valley Fair's men's and home store, before some of the other secondary stores go away. And for those curious, the company does publish a list of stores with their r...

I signed up for their free trial several years ago. Frankly, I wasn't impressed. Selection wasn't great and prices weren't competitive. I suppose it works for certain people, but I prefer to go to physical stores.

I will not do any money related functions on my phone. A restaurant offering this as the only payment option will alienate quite a few customers. I've never seen any restaurant offering this as the only payment option. They will still take your card and process it like normal if you want. I'm sure ...

Perch (rooftop bar in downtown LA) now has a 4.5% "security fee".

Yikes. Hopefully they increase staffing levels to offset the loss of self checkout, but we all know that isn't going to happen. Their stores are already a mess and sometimes there is only one cashier who also seems to have other duties.

There probably was a way to transition to cage free eggs without a sharp sudden price increase or to slow the price increase to a phase in over time, in a phased approach over a number of in a given state for producers like must be 10% cage free in 2020, 20% cage free in 2021 etc. But that wouldn't...

As with any new thing, medical treatment, medicine, vaccine, whatever, you do not always know the effect this new thing or change will have, until the change plays out for a while. It may all end up fine and if so that is great I guess... but for now... it is suspect what the potential impact of th...