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Quote from: Retail Regents on June 21, 2023, 04:31:38 PMUnited 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.
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Shopping Cart Sightings / Re: wal mart carts
Last post by Retail Regents - Yesterday at 09:23:19 PM
Quote from: BillyGr on Yesterday at 03:00:25 PMAssuming 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).
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Shopping Cart Sightings / Re: wal mart carts
Last post by BillyGr - Yesterday at 03:00:25 PM
Quote from: Retail Regents on May 27, 2024, 06:41:37 PMBack 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.
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Grocery Stores/Supermarkets / Re: Wegmans
Last post by TheFugitive - Yesterday at 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
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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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Shopping Cart Sightings / Re: wal mart carts
Last post by Retail Regents - May 27, 2024, 06:41:37 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.

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#7
Hotels/Motels / Re: 1st Cartoon Network Hotel ...
Last post by TheFugitive - May 24, 2024, 12:10:41 PM
I actually drove by this place recently and it is awesome!  Really cool!
However we stayed up the road at a very nice hotel that was built to resemble a steamboat.
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Defunct Department Stores / Re: Stuart's Department Stores
Last post by Retail_247 - May 24, 2024, 10:15:15 AM
Higher quality image of the Stuarts logo can be seen here:

https://defunct-brands.fandom.com/wiki/Stuarts_(Discount_Department_Store)
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Defunct Department Stores / Re: Service Merchandise
Last post by TheFugitive - May 21, 2024, 02:08:07 PM
My daughter, who now lives nearby, informs me that the Handel's Ice Cream stand next to my old Service Merchandise store seen above has permanently closed. 

This is sad because their ice cream was truly delicious and frankly they were one of the best memories I had of working at that store.  Service Merchandise execs, who rarely had anything good to say about either Pittsburgh or our store, at least all complimented the ice cream they could enjoy while visiting.

I did have a falling out with Handel's in 2020 when in the midst of the pandemic they refused to serve me because I was not wearing a mask.  DUH!  IT WAS AN OUTDOOR ICE CREAM STAND WITH NO INTERIOR SEATING!  I WAS OUTDOORS AND YOU WERE INSIDE, BEHIND GLASS, WEARING A MASK!! So stupid!

Handel's is a chain based in Ohio and some of you may be able to still find them out there someplace. 
#10
Current Restaurants / Re: Red Lobster abruptly close...
Last post by TheFugitive - May 21, 2024, 09:44:50 AM
Some more interesting stuff on this from a Hong Kong-based business reporter.

Details from the Red Lobster bankruptcy filing are wild.  So much mismanagement!

▫️$1 billion in debt, $30 million in cash

▫️Previous owner sold land and leased it back to Red Lobster at "above market rates".

▫️$20 Endless Shrimp cost it $11 million but the interesting part is that one of the chain's owners is Thai seafood firm Thai Union (which also owns Chicken By The Sea) and it may have used Endless Shrimp to dump its own shrimp supply through the 578 restaurants in North America.

▫️Thai Union became the only Red Lobster shrimp vendor, overcharging for shrimp and skipping quality reviews (Thai Union has written off its $500m+ investment).

▫️Red Lobster has had 5 CEO in the last 5 years (!!!)

▫️Sales down 30% since 2019