Retail Watchers

So my area is rural enough that I've got two ranches full of horses within two blocks of my house, and nearby goat farms and cattle farms. But Petco is across the street from the Lowe's here (although their location is in a badly designed center that is more than half vacant now that BB&B is go...

That’s surprising, I would’ve never expected Chik Fil A to run such an unbecoming dining room or restrooms. Not many places have playgrounds around here anymore, the only one I can think of is Burger King. We’re supposedly getting one here, but I’ll believe it when I see it as I’ve heard that for ye...

My experience is that the older DG locations were usually in close proximity to or often right next to Family Dollar in strip malls. All of the ones around here stared moving into the metal freestanding buildings around 10-15 years ago. This is when some started popping up in the much smaller towns ...

I don’t know that mine qualifies as a rural area but I did notice this weekend that Lowes does have a Petco branded section up front.

There is also a Fintech fishing clothing section adjacent to it that used to be more in the middle with the outdoor furniture.

Well last week I had thought possibly Taco Bell might actually be open for breakfast but wasn’t sure. This time I realized they were definitely open as I saw a car in the drive thru order successfully and multiple cars outside. I was the only customer inside, did see a few cars in the drive thru and...

storewanderer wrote: ↑July 27th, 2023, 10:20 pm
My prediction for this format:

4. Milkshakes/ice cream yes

You mean they’ll actually have an ice cream machine that works consistently?!

I tried another DG that I’ve never been to, and noticed this store has a new produce display, that the others don’t. There are two coolers with grapes, strawberries, etc. The produce looked great, very fresh, but was expensive. I wonder if any of it sells, although they didn’t seem to heavily stock ...

That’s a decent deal for the sandwich. The Arby’s here doesn’t do happy hour anymore, I didn’t realize that was something they still had.

Nothing at Arby’s strikes me as a good deal anymore. It was nice when you could add a slider or shake to a meal during happy hour.

One Subway I used to go to but haven’t since Covid played the local soft rock station.

So fast food chains have certain playlists company wide? I’ve noticed McDonalds at least here, plays sort of acoustic blends of popular music, similar to what you’d hear on the Coffeehouse” channel on Sirius XM. Burger King I remember playing mostly 90s and 00s soft rock/pop music. Wendy’s I often h...