Retail Watchers

This was going to be a smaller than usual store much like the one they opened in Brightwood (old Walter Reed area) but a bit bigger than that one and they pulled out when they decided to give up on that experiment and also closed a large number of stores. They also were supposed to open one on the ...

Westfield was an international company and they probably just thought they would bring the practice to the US but of course nobody here recognized it. You make an excellent point about the lack of corporate branding in the US beyond sports stadiums. For me the thing that didn't make any sense was t...

More bad news for Safeway. Lidl will be a great addition. And of course so will Wegman's. I'm beginning to think that Albertsons should sell the DC area Safeway stores and be done with it. Albertsons seems to have stopped doing anything to make Safeway any better than its very average self before t...

another one in Southeast DC in a long delayed complex in an area that's seen as relatively low income, although it's also near quite a few very middle class shoppers. This the Skyland development along Good Hope Road at Naylor Road and Alabama Avenue, correct? The only grocery in the immediate area...

How much integration is there now between Safeway and Acme? It seems that Safeway is being supplied from the Albertsons Denver, PA warehouse. This is after Safeway closed their Upper Marlboro, MD facility in early 2020. If Acme is the stronger operation in the Eastern Division one might think they s...

I wonder if the 10 PM closing at Target is a chain wide thing. Once Target went back to longer hours after things started to reopen in 2020 they were 8 AM to 11 PM in the areas around me. Now they are 8 AM to 10 PM. I don't live in an area that is having the theft and crime problems that have been d...

Was Walmart's intent with the Neighborhood Market concept to go full on into grocery? Or was it to provide infill to offer the "super" part when a full Supercenter wasn't feasible for one reason or another. Walmart is able to compete with a full store given the other products they sell. Bu...

The Wal Mart easily does 4-5 times the business of the Target during most of the week/evenings. Target on weekends probably has about 50% the traffic the Wal Mart has. It is an average performing Wal Mart. That is not a very good performing Target. It didn't even have self checkouts yet last time I...

Union members will not be able to review the entire contract before voting. Only if it is ratified will the full contract be released. You'll be shocked how little they got. I'd be a firm NO vote for that reason alone. I've voted in several mail in ratification balloting elections and we were alway...

I find in general these "irregular" Wal Marts don't seem to work. I think it is for a variety of reasons. First, a large segment of the residents of these areas did not want Wal Mart in the first place. So Wal Mart noses around and finds an old undersized/irregular space and opens anyway....