Retail Watchers

Today's findings at the Lake Mead/Boulder Highway Haggen in Henderson: 1. No music playing. 2. Produce looked normal. 3. At about 12:30 p.m., there was one person working in deli and no one in bakery. Service deli items were available but in very low quantities (3 rotisserie chickens, a handful of p...

http://www.davidjlivingston.com/haggens-bankruptcy/ I was in the Las Vegas area on Sunday. Sad, very sad. Albertsons left Haggen's with the B-team and moved the varsity to other stores. The sad thing is, I'm really not convinced that these stores are the B-team. I've only been in three of the acqui...

I made a lunchtime visit to the Lake Mead Parkway and Boulder Highway Haggen in Henderson today. This is another former Albertsons. It's on a very busy intersection with a Walmart Supercenter across the street. Things didn't seem to be any worse than my visit to another Haggen on Monday. 1. The brea...

My visit to the Haggen at 2910 Bicentennial Pkwy in Henderson today: 1. Out of the majority of types of bread. 2. Entirely out of bagels (in the bagel display; there were a few in bags). 3. One section of meat display was entirely empty and had a curtain over it. 4. Low stock on some Pepsi, coffee, ...

A few observations: 1. At Albertsons stores in Idaho in late July / early August, I noticed some Lucerne products, a sale on Safeway Home brand toilet paper, and quite a few O Organics products. They were carrying Refreshe soft drinks. 2. At an Albertsons store in Henderson, Nevada, this week, I did...

I was in one of the Henderson, Nevada, stores today. Findings: 1. The receipt looked exactly like an Albertsons receipt. 2. The receipt referenced "Haggen South". 3. There was no longer a Gift Card Mall. Seems like a shame. I assume that on a profit-per-square-foot basis, the Gift Card Mal...

Private brands are definitely an area where I expect the Safeway programs to be dominant in the merger. I think this is an area where Albertsons was almost entirely reliant on SuperValu and is an area where Safeway had done better than average compared to peers. I am wondering if they are going to c...

It seems to have happened below the radar, but the Dahl's Foods chain in Des Moines, Iowa, has filed for bankruptcy and the Dahl's name is disappearing from the market. They announced that they were closing stores in Ankeny and Ames in May 2014. The Ankeny store looks like a new build (it looks very...

I believe that there was an old grocery store in Pocatello, Idaho, that was in the neighborhood south or east of the former Pocatello Mall (which has now mostly been replaced by a Fred Meyer). This store was not on Yellowstone Ave. or on Pocatello Creek Road. As I recall, it was closed by the early ...

Interesting, BillyGr. I don't conceptually disagree, but, at least in the case of the Corvallis Wendy's, there is more to the story. The restaurant has been closed for almost 2.5 months, and there isn't even a sign in the door stating that the restaurant is closed. I believe that a couple of weeks a...