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#1

Stores Shutting Down This Year....2024 / Re: 99 Cent Stores closing all...

Last post by TheFugitive - Yesterday at 12:34:31 PM

Dollar Tree has announced the acquisition of 170 former 99 Cent Stores locations and will re-open them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/dollar-tree-acquires-170-99-cents-only-stores-will-reopen-them-as-dollar-tree-stores/ar-BB1nk10r?ocid=BingNewsSearch

#2

Department Stores / Re: Walmart

Last post by TheFugitive - Yesterday at 09:12:31 AM

Here's an article from Bloomberg claiming that Walmart actually pays some of their store managers half-a-million dollars per year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-30/walmart-store-manager-salaries-reach-500-000

Krikey, maybe I bailed on retail management a bit too soon.  Although based on conversations with people I know who worked in management there the odds are high that you could die from stress long before achieving that number.

#3

Shopping Cart Sightings / Re: More Ocean State Job Lot F...

Last post by Retail Regents - May 30, 2024, 06:38:16 PM

The Schenectady now has a set of these. Apparently the original logos were filed off on all of them.

Wonder if they just moved them when the Albany store was closed down? 

Seems logical that Schenectady is one of the closest to where the Albany store was (the other would be Troy by HVCC, but they have blue carts that seem to be all similar).

Could be, and more.

As far as Troy's carts, I'm sure they still have the Toys R Us carts. The other (slightly smaller) blue ones I believe were former Christmas Tree Shops units.

#4

Shopping Cart Sightings / Re: More Ocean State Job Lot F...

Last post by BillyGr - May 30, 2024, 01:14:11 PM

The Schenectady now has a set of these. Apparently the original logos were filed off on all of them.

Wonder if they just moved them when the Albany store was closed down? 

Seems logical that Schenectady is one of the closest to where the Albany store was (the other would be Troy by HVCC, but they have blue carts that seem to be all similar).

#5

Dead or Defunct Malls and Shopping Centers / Re: Century III FINALLY meets ...

Last post by TheFugitive - May 30, 2024, 11:57:05 AM

Even as it's being torn down trespassers STILL continue to break into Century III to shoot video.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/five-people-arrested-accused-of-trespassing-at-century-iii-mall/ar-BB1njG5y?ocid=BingNewsSerp

This time the "shooting" could have been literal.  Four adults and a juvenile broke in at 2AM on Wednesday to shoot video for a Facebook livestream.

Since the mall has no power they brought their own light, in the form of a flashlight that was mounted to a loaded hand gun!

Having seen the gun in the video the police opted to wait until these people left the mall and got back in their car before making an arrest.

The driving force behind every break-in at the mall has been somebody's desire to become an internet video star.

Maybe if you are going to do illegal things it's best not to livestream them on Facebook.

#6

Shopping Cart Sightings / Re: More Ocean State Job Lot F...

Last post by Retail Regents - May 28, 2024, 10:08:03 PM

United Steel & Wire cart from 2003 at the Albany store. Original retailer unknown.

The Schenectady now has a set of these. Apparently the original logos were filed off on all of them.

#7

Shopping Cart Sightings / Re: wal mart carts

Last post by Retail Regents - May 28, 2024, 09:23:19 PM

Assuming by Albany you mean the two story one?

That might make sense that less companies produce such a style, since those ones designed for the escalators wouldn't be in a great deal of demand given the (overall) small number of stores that have such a setup.

Yes, that store exactly.

Most escalator carts on the market are typically made without the lower rack. And the majority of the ones that do have a rack are made by Precision Wire Products. The most common retailers for those type of carts are wholesale clubs that have multi-level parking garages.

As for these carts at this Albany store, I do not understand why they ordered them, since they do not appear to be remodeling at this time, and the carts they replaced were only 2-3 years old, which themselves replaced Unarcos manufactured in 2008, 2015, and 2016. Also, we don't typically get New-Concept PWP carts for our Walmart stores in this part of the country; instead we get their imitation carts from Wanzl NA (the 6944 seen in regular stores such as Glenville).

#8

Shopping Cart Sightings / Re: wal mart carts

Last post by BillyGr - May 28, 2024, 03:00:25 PM

Back in Albany, they replaced their fairly new Wanzl NA carts with a strange set of Precision Wire carts, which have lower racks and an escalator frame. I guess Wanzl NA does not make an equivalent model, hence why they have these.

Assuming by Albany you mean the two story one?

That might make sense that less companies produce such a style, since those ones designed for the escalators wouldn't be in a great deal of demand given the (overall) small number of stores that have such a setup.

#9

Grocery Stores/Supermarkets / Re: Wegmans

Last post by TheFugitive - May 28, 2024, 10:15:58 AM

Wegmans is reportedly pursuing a location in the fast-growing Pittsburgh suburb of Cranberry Township for their first Pittsburgh-area location.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/wegmans-in-discussions-to-open-first-store-in-the-pittsburgh-area-report-says/ar-BB1mTBb6?ocid=BingNewsSearch

#10

Shopping Cart Sightings / Price Rite carts

Last post by Retail Regents - May 27, 2024, 06:44:54 PM

The Schenectady location replaced their crummy wire carts with a set of Unarco PC42s, which come with coin locks. Even the cart shown here is locked together, at an odd angle to the rest of them.

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