Retail Watchers

Not my experience at all this weekend. I encountered a messy store with one checkout open and the line going down the aisle (it did move fast though- I waited about 8 minutes), and as I was waiting in that line thinking about and observing the store conditions I was thinking to myself this place is...

99 Only often operated in areas where you wouldn't expect a dollar store to move in. It seems like in much of CA that strategy worked pretty well for them. In TX obviously it didn't. I think their inventory levels are too high and something else is going to happen in the coming weeks to move invento...

Are they even serious about this anymore? They are now proposing to divest FEWER stores in CA than they previously were. However they will now be divesting ALL Albertsons/Vons/Safeway/Pavilions in CA. Previously it said they'd be divesting some Ralphs/F4L/FCO Stores. Interesting change there. They a...

These liquidation sales, I really wonder how they plan to get rid of all the product. I think they're going to have a hard time with some of it. The inventory levels in CA are so high compared to what I saw out of state. But without food customers seem to have moved on from 99 Only. It is almost lik...

A different location.

This is so unimaginably bad and disappointing.

I have never seen it get this bad on inventory for a typical food/drug chain before. I've seen one store independents who ran into disputes with wholesalers like this before...

Not my experience at all this weekend. I encountered a messy store with one checkout open and the line going down the aisle (it did move fast though- I waited about 8 minutes), and as I was waiting in that line thinking about and observing the store conditions I was thinking to myself this place is ...

How can this chain survive with stores that look like this?

What is going on here?

These are busy stores. I went into a couple obviously not busy stores that did not quite look this bad.

Alpha8472 wrote: ↑April 21st, 2024, 2:05 pm The Hayward Lucky is a Jewel decor store. There is probably no other store in the state left with this decor.

The former Albertsons in Visalia may still have it. Cheaper version then Hayward, Concord, and Pleasant Hill as it was a 2005 build.

It was a big deal when local ownership outbid Jewel for the stores (the main issue was overlap), but then they decide to sell out anyway, this time to Hy-Vee? Hy Vee might actually be a better fit than Jewel. I like Jewel but the further you get from Chicago the worse it seems to perform and the mo...

Hobby Lobby will do great in this location.

It will probably be the end for the Jo Ann in Carson though. And I'm not sure if the Michaels will survive either in their current location. Maybe they could try to relocate.