Retail Watchers

I have only eaten at the Baker's Square in Davis. The food was ok. That location will become a Black Bear Diner.

Where is the Longs Distribution Center? What will CVS do without it?

Strangely enough, it seems like each store is different. I went to Lucky today and they had a large selection of coffee from many brands. The prices were not higher than the local Safeway. The Lucky stores in the Bay Area seem to be run very differently from the Save Mart stores up in Nevada. Everyt...

Save Mart gives too much leeway to individual store managers. Under Lucky, managers were watched over closely by Lucky. Later when Save Mart took over, It was totally opposite. If the store manager is good, the store will be well run. If the store manager is only concerned about a paycheck and does ...

I heard a store manager talking to an employee. They were going over the changes to be made to their Longs Drugs store. The aisles will be narrowed to 5 feet. Lower shelves will be installed. The narrow aisles will compensate for the reduced capacity of the lower shelves. Merchandise will be rearran...

Walgreens is also union in San Francisco(and Chicago). Longs Drugs is non-union, but they only have one small store in San Francisco.

I believe the ads are still made by the people at the Longs Headquarters in Walnut Creek. Once, the stores switch over to the CVS name, the Walnut Creek people will be terminated and CVS ads will be used. This week they started to advertise CVS products in the Longs Ad. Slowly the CVS name will be s...

I visited the Longs Drugs flagship store in downtown Walnut Creek today. The Seattle's Best Coffee Cafe has been removed. The area is now filled with lawn chairs and various items for sale. It is sad. I liked the cafe. I guess CVS decided they didn't want a cafe in the store. The store was still had...

Kmart gave up long ago on trying to train their employees to provide good customer service. It is due to a lack of proper training. They hire employees at low wages and they don't last long. The employees really aren't taught much. They basically learn how to run a register and return items. They ne...

Perhaps they want to sell as much stuff as they can at full price to make the most profit.

I wonder why they don't just ship all of the stuff in the store to other Albertsons stores.