Retail Watchers

The 9/5/2002 Wayback Machine snapshot has a list of the Magruders store locations at the time: 4641 Duke Street, Alexandria (Foxchase Shopping Center): Originally Grand Union. Demolished for a new build Harris Teeter. 7010 Columbia Pike, Annandale: Originally a Centennial A&P. Then Food Lion and...

[They're still the low price leader but maybe by a few cents per item vs. other stores and honestly some people conclude (as I have) that it just isn't worth the hassle of a lousy shopping experience. This is especially true in areas where you have many grocery competitors. All of these grocers goi...

Get rid of Sam's--this seems more likely although Sam's has come out of nowhere as a bright spot for them recently, but who will buy them? Perhaps the other two warehouse type groups would want some? For instance we have no Costco in this area (though they have proposed a couple and keep getting is...

What I notice about Wal Mart customers is even if faced with an empty shelf they will just take whatever they can get. Rather than customers who shop at other stores who seem to get frustrated with not getting what they need, poor service levels, long checkout wait times, for some reason Wal Mart c...

Here is a link to SuperValu's request to sell five Food Lion turned Shop n Save stores back to AholdDelhaize. Two of the five stores - Berryville, VA and Martinsburg, WV - were divestitures from the original consent decree that prevented AholdDelhaize from going back into areas where divestitures oc...

Astor Place in NYC (former Wanamaker's, across from Cooper Union) closed today. Employees did not know until they came to work today. Apparently they're being evicted for not paying their bills. I was there two weeks ago, it was devoid of customers and looked sad but was stocked. Lampert can go to ...

Right from the start Supervalu was talking about transferring the acquired Food Lion Stores to independent operators. I'm not clear if that happened at all? None were that i know of. It was just the right words for the FTC to hear to let the Ahold/Delhaize merger go through. While we are at it what...

Even Safeway has hand held scanners that regular customers can use. Lucky you... None of the Safeway stores have handheld scanners in the DC area. I wish they did. Makes it way easier to scan and leave big or heavy items in the card - TP, paper towels, milk, etc. Then again Safeway has never really...

I wouldn't avoid Costco based on its self-checkout implementation. At my local store (Arcadia Crossing [44th St and Thomas] in Phoenix), the SCO attendant has a handheld scanner and comes running when a customer appears to be in need of assistance. In my focus group of one, the following issues hav...

I have a friend who is Filipino. He has taken me to the Jollibee in Virginia Beach, VA and in Queens NYC. I really liked the spicy fried chicken that they serve. The burgers were very average for fast food. I have not yet visited the Jollibee that opened earlier this year in Wheaton, MD. This is cur...