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Walmart Closing 269 Stores

The closings include… 102 company small format stores 23 Neighborhood Markets 12 Supercenters 7 stores in Puerto Rico 6 discount centers 4 Sam’s Clubs Shopping Center Business Article Bentonville-based Wal-mart Stores Inc. is set to close 269 stores in the U.S. and globally. In October 2015, the company said an active review of the portfolio […]

Walmart to close 269 stores, including all Express stores

Walmart announced last week that it plans to close 269 stores, including all of its 102 Walmart Express small-format stores. Of the store closings, 154 will take place in the U.S. According to Walmart, the impacted stores represent less than 1 percent of the 11,600 stores worldwide and will impact 16,000 employees (10,000 in the […]

Save-A-Lot files IPO, to spin off from Supervalu

Supervalu announced earlier this month that its discount grocer Save-A-Lot filed an IPO and plans to spin off into a publicly traded company to be largely controlled by Supervalu shareholders. According to Supervalu CEO Sam Duncan, after the separation “Supervalu will be able to focus on providing wholesale distribution services to independent retail customers and […]

Mall Anchors are Fading

The following article is a good accounting of the current state of affairs for mall anchors.  There is some information specific to the Philadelphia market, but there is enough national information to make it a worthwhile article. Traditional mall anchors are fading away The American middle class is disappearing, and with it, the mall anchor store. […]

Target Announces New Stores

Target announced its new stores in 2016 and 2017.  Most will be urban stores in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago ranging from 19,000 SF to 45,000 SF. The only full-size store will be opened in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Argus Leader Link

Brookhaven, PA to welcome ShopRite and Giant in 2016

The shopping center known as 352 Plaza in Brookhaven, PA had two doomed tenants – Pathmark and K-Mart-  but will soon come to life with a Lowe’s (under construction) and a planned ShopRite. The grocery store could open by March 2016 and will feature an outdoor cafe, beer sales, and a hot and cold food […]

Dollar General to open 900 stores in 2016

Dollar General said earlier this month that it plans to open 900 new stores in 2016, compared to 730 store openings in 2015. The new stores are planned for urban, suburban and rural locations. The company also announced its third quarter earnings. Net income rose 7.2% (compared to the previous year’s third quarter) to $253 […]

Whole Foods to seek $1 billion in debt offering

Whole Foods announced earlier this month that it was seeking to raise $1 billion in a debt offering. The company said it intends to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, including an authorization to repurchase up to $1 billion in its stock. Standard and Poor’s (S&P) assigned a “BBB” rating to the offering, the […]

Plans in place again for Albertsons IPO

Albertsons (Acme, Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco et al) filed an amended stock prospectus for an initial public offering late last month in hopes of raising between $1.5 and $2 billion. The company had originally planned to hold the offering in October but called off the IPO due to market volatility. The prospectus is seeking a […]

ShopRite subject to antitrust claim in fight to squeeze Wegmans

Wegmans’ bid to open a store in Hanover, NJ took an interesting twist recently, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision reversing a previous ruling, and holding that Village Supermarkets, a ShopRite operator and Wakefern member, may be subject to an antitrust claim related to its efforts to thwart […]