Retail Watchers

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...

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 ...

A mistake in my opinion but if they can staff front end with efficient employees then it may work out for them. Agreed. The new and remodeled SB stores were doing an excellent job of supervising and managing the self checkout. The top competitor is the Flagship tier Walmart next block over, and the...

I also noticed the lack of staffing. There was only one cashier and he was running around the store trying to help customers find items. However, there was a line and people were getting impatient. The Krispy Krunchy Chicken counter seemed to have an employee who could not leave the chicken area. T...

In the Sacramento area, and in studying retail, I've discovered certain trends of where retailers chose to locate at back in the day and here is the list of the stores that I thought could've existed starting in the 90s or 2000s that never did. Were any of these proposed, but then shelved?? How man...

I was just comparing how in some cities such as Woodland, California near Sacramento, the Walmart was not able to become a supercenter. So Walmart opened up a Neighborhood Market in Woodland about a mile away from the bigger Walmart. It took away many customers and sales from the bigger Walmart. It...

I take it back. This system is flawed. I was charged for a large bag of chips when I picked up a small one. Apparently it is not very accurate if it just goes by what each item looks like. There must be someone in a room looking at the cameras trying to figure out what you are holding. What a rip o...

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). Zero chance that Kroger would divest Fred Meyer or S...

Was told Reno and Carson City are also closing April 28. They expect the discount to be increased rapidly but don't know when. The employees are very upset; they were told a few days ago they'd be working until June 3... and now this. Also these two stores have officially changed store hours to clos...