Retail Watchers

Funny that this comes up as I happened to be driving around the back of a shopping center with a Trader Joe's last week and I noticed on their loading dock area they had a TJ's branded pop-up canopy with boxes of merchandise (or perhaps and hopefully, store supplies) being stored underneath! Was it...

It looks like the two obscure units in Santa Maria and Camarillo are running regular hours now, 7a-9p with Friday and Saturday open till 10p. Last time I drove past Camarillo it was dinnertime and I didn't see one person waiting for a table outside, meanwhile next door Finneys (a fast growing, no fr...

More evidence in Oregon was "fierce competition" between Fred Meyer and Safeway. FTC needs to come down with the hammer on divestments, lose Fred Meyer and the other Fred Meyer banners or lose Albertsons (and give them stores in WA/OR). Who in the heck do you think would be able to operat...

My understanding is that Cornell was trying to make similar cultural and structural changes when he ran Michaels prior to Target, and he was dismissed because his ideas would have bankrupted the company. He ordered up new prototypes that cost a fortune and were impossible to operate on their payrol...

More evidence in Oregon was "fierce competition" between Fred Meyer and Safeway. FTC needs to come down with the hammer on divestments, lose Fred Meyer and the other Fred Meyer banners or lose Albertsons (and give them stores in WA/OR). Who in the heck do you think would be able to operat...

More evidence in Oregon was "fierce competition" between Fred Meyer and Safeway. FTC needs to come down with the hammer on divestments, lose Fred Meyer and the other Fred Meyer banners or lose Albertsons (and give them stores in WA/OR). Who in the heck do you think would be able to operat...

Inconsistent execution is bad execution. Someone needs to remind this CEO at Target the old retail saying that you're only as good as your worst store. The culture at Target is bad, bad, bad under Cornell and he needs to go away. No discipline, managers making up their own policies, lax standards, ...

I've never seen a Macy's anywhere in the country that doesn't do the return barcodes. However most of the product has them factory applied so that they don't have to manually affix a label unless it won't scan or was previously returned. Macy's specifically mentions that the return barcode is like ...

Can validate that the Temecula Stater Bros remodel is complete, and absolutely beautiful store that is completely new inside. The entire original 90s Albertsons layout is removed, they constructed and relocated bakery and deli. They did not install self checkout but instead the 4 new tiny express c...

Can validate that the Temecula Stater Bros remodel is complete, and absolutely beautiful store that is completely new inside. The entire original 90s Albertsons layout is removed, they constructed and relocated bakery and deli. They did not install self checkout but instead the 4 new tiny express ch...