Retail Watchers

I feel a lot of looters are taking advantage of the situation regarding the REAL reason for the protests. Majority of looters don't care of the reason, it's just an opportunity to act a fool and get free merchandise. Add that to being basically "locked down" inside for 3 months only makes ...

The issue with these stores in the "better areas" is they do not have roll down metal gates or anything to protect them. They have a false sense of security since they are located in these areas. I think going forward we will see a lot of these stores install gates if they choose to stay i...

I haven't been in a Ralph's in over a month now. Last time I went in March on a wednesday, they were fully stocked except for paper products and cleaning supplies. My recent trips have been to Aldi where they are probably the best stores Ive been to during this time. They usually have everything, ev...

I went to the VONS in Torrance last weekend (the former Pavilions Place) and they had the tape to mark everyone at 6ft away out side and at the registers. There was an employee at the door letting X number of people in as others exited at the other door. The mood was quite somber in the store and ve...

I wonder how long they can keep going on like this? If their strategy of only selling items on consignment was going to work I would think they could have found some vendors at this point. I think it's time stick a fork in it and call it a day. It's really a sad site. I used to go to Fry's in the e...

The secret to making meal kits work is to keep the preparation simple. Sprouts has a line that I've tried with a prep time of 10 minutes. That's about right. The concepts that failed were too complicated and time consuming. In addition to the Plated kits when they were available at more stores bein...

Not sure what that license action "perta per" is... https://www.abc.ca.gov/licensing/license-types/ It appears they are trying to transfer a surrendered license into this store... https://www.abc.ca.gov/licensing/license-lookup/single-license/?RPTTYPE=12&LICENSE=614282 Meanwhile their...

Did you notice if the store was currently selling liquor? Seems strange that they would be applying for an initial off-sell liquor license for this old store. Yes, they are currently selling liquor, both wine and hard liquor. Maybe the Boy's license expired for this location or, they had to re-appl...

I visited this store recently and found the sign the in window interesting. As far as I know, this store was a Boy's then Ralphs. I don't recall it being an Alphabeta. I'm assuming since Yucaipa owned Boy's and Alphabeta at the time, this was a "spun off" company for the SoCal division? St...

Macy's seems to be continuing its path to being a much smaller chain. At this rate Dillard's will be the last department store chain standing in another couple of years. I am very curious how they seem to have turned on San Francisco. First they closed the Men's Store, then they closed the store in...