February 27, 2019
Home Depot & Lowes: Graphing the Results
With this morning’s Lowes earnings release, we now have results in hand from both home-improvement retail giants. As usual, Home...
February 27, 2019
With this morning’s Lowes earnings release, we now have results in hand from both home-improvement retail giants. As usual, Home...
February 26, 2019
Click Image to Enlarge How We Narrowed the List 1. To develop a list of potential Dine Brands acquisition’s targets,...
February 25, 2019
If you’re looking for pizza chains that are a lock to add 50 or more net units this year, the...
February 25, 2019
In a development that makes absolutely perfect sense, Good Times Burgers and Frozen Custard announced that it is partnering with...
February 22, 2019
Two months into the year and we’ve reached a point at which we can chart 2019 store closings by major...
February 14, 2019
This morning, the Commerce Department released its retail sales report for December, and the news was not good. The decline...
January 30, 2019
In the lead up to this weekend’s Super Bowl, the National Football League and Lowe’s announced last week that the...
January 30, 2019
Executive-suite activity levels have ramped up at a number of major chains recently, as the past 10 days have seen...
January 30, 2019
As part of its efforts to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, ShopKo placed the assets of 120 of its pharmacies...
January 29, 2019
Midwest department store chain Von Maur is growing. Those are two concepts – department store and growth – that we...
January 28, 2019
Domino’s, hands down, is one of the best examples of an old-school consumer-facing brand whose investment in technology (and better...
January 25, 2019
With 2018 in the books, it’s time to check out the state of the specialty grocery vertical through the lens...