Retail Watchers

Circuit City keeps coming back from the dead too, but has yet to open an actual Retail store. Toys R Us has also come back, albeit it's a shell of its former self... Yeah, that's a funny one. The convenience store size location at DFW is an insult to the brand. And I don't think it's doing much for...

Sparks Store closed today. 90% off + extra 50% off all items. They had fixtures 50% off marked prices and the marked prices were pretty fair to begin with. No liquidator was present and they had the store manager handling the fixture sales. Unfortunately many of the white display tables were quite ...

Probably says more about the cleverness of the landlord or leasing agent than about Kroger. It's a rarity, but over the years, I've seen Krogers that had gone into some random locations---an old ice house, a former car dealership, and a one-time skating rink. There's a Harris-Teeter in DC that's in ...

So how is Belk doing? How do the stores look? There's almost nothing online post-restructuring of their debt and the shift in control to their lenders. They seem to have fewer stores than in the past and some have been converted to the Dillard model of outlet/clearance stores. They've left almost al...

Never heard of them, but the second article was a sad story to read. Crazy that they had no long-term agreement and Sprouts was able to just back out without warning. I thought these relationships required some degree of committment. As the retail industry consolidates, wholesalers are going to str...

Wholesaler Harvest Sherwood is in bankruptcy and began liquidating last month. It looks like they had multiple problems, but a dispute with Sprouts was pivotal: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/02/20/harvest-sherwood-food-distributors-ceasing-all-operations-nationwide/79340204007...

The cleanliness of the area seems to vary depending on time of day and day of week. I've seen it both clean and a toilet in recent years. This is a relatively low traffic block and doesn't get a lot of tourists... and the tourists this block does get are often older couples and not with kids or eve...

I can't think of what Kroger would bring to the table in New England. If they took a distressed asset like Stop & Shop over, the results would be similar to Pick N Save which they have absolutely improved, but continues to be a work in progress. I also get the sense, but I do not know the marke...

I'm not a big of the Modern/Florida decor package that Albertsons Cos is using for new remodels. But I must admit that there are some stores that have received the Modern decor package and they look good, especially the newer stores. This Safeway store is one of them. In older more rundown stores, ...