Anyone have any scoop on how these stores are performing? Has anyone been to one lately?
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Anything Fast Eddie touches turns to dust. This man should keep his day job and get out of the retail business.
I work for a Home & Life, and we get so little in sales you feel like the whole thing is a front for something illegal because there's no way this was intended to be an actual profitable store, just something created for appearances to launder money for some kind of mob operation.
So there is no hope or effort of them at all to turn the small formats around? Are we
all headin' for the last roundup?
the small store format is performing poorly overall.
I cannot believe they rebooted the previously failed Homelife name for the small store format. Adding the ampersand really made a difference.
I've been to the one in Lafayette, LA and it's mostly a ghost town in a very busy shopping center. I bought one thing and it took five minutes to check out because the iPad they use as a register took that long to connect to the register's printer. Absolutely awful.
They really shot themselves in the foot when they sold off Western Auto. A lot of these stores did well and were closely connected to their communities. They would have been a great store base for the Home & Life format.
8 grand was a really good day when u use to check the sales flash this summer they'd put up alot of days under a grand total or goose eggs even wasn't that unusual
They also laid off the team who was working on those small stores.
They are not doing that good, not horrible but not what they expected.