Retail Watchers

Bedford Marketplace, the new center, is in the right part of Corona for a Whole Foods, and if Amazon hadn't been trying to launch Fresh I would have expected the developer of that site to be courting WFM as their first choice to anchor it. So maybe it will be the first WFM in Riverside County to op...

Meanwhile, Costco wants a store in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles with 800 apartment units on top of it. https://abc7.com/crenshaw-costco-housin ... /12742968/

Yes, it's a Walmart exclusive. There's a Beautiful by Drew websitewhere it looks like you can order their products, but once you click on something, it redirects you to Walmart. And it's not just appliances, and not just one color.

Meanwhile, I received FIVE separate emails before 10AM today from BB&B. Two advising me of local stores closing (one BB&B and one Harmon Face Values), two offering me coupons --- which of course are not accepted at the local stores that are closing -- and one encouraging me to sign up for th...

Big Lots is closing a number of stores in my area (southern California.) I don't know if there's an article or list anywhere, but there are "store closing signs" posted on at least four stores in my immediate area (San Gabriel Valley.)

A store that opened earlier this year in Doyle, CA has that configuration too (one self checkout and 2 regular ones against the wall) so I think it is very recent they moved to this freestanding self checkout layout with two units. I'm a fifth-generation Californian and had never heard of Doyle bef...

I am actually seeing a headline out there on "Slate" saying that the Albertsons Kroger merger has been "BLOCKED" by the Washington AG. Uhh... no, the "merger" has not been "blocked" - just the dividend payment has. Real alternate reality going on in some &quo...