Potbelly
October 18, 2020 Good Vibes. Great Sandwiches. Way back around the end of the hippy days, 1977, to be exact, Peter Hastings and his wife owned a little antique shop … Read more
Tim Hortons USA: Where We’re at in 2020
October 11, 2020 Always Fresh! Last week I created a few charts to give you an overview of Tim Hortons in Canada. This week we’ll have a look at what’s … Read more
Tim Hortons Canada: where we’re at in 2020
Always fresh! October 4, 2020 Some of us call it Tims and some of us call it Timmies. But, no matter what you call it, Tim Hortons is part of … Read more
H-E-B: Here Everything’s Better
September 27, 2020 “Here, Everything’s Better,” might be a catchy slogan, but it really stands for Howard Edward Butt. But, it wasn’t Butt who founded H-E-B, it was his mother, … Read more
Bonefish Grill
September 21, 2020 Tim Curci and Chris Parker of Petersburg, Florida, love fishing. They love catching fish, cooking it and serving it to friends and family. In January 2000 they … Read more
Harbor Freight Tools: Quality is our Obsession
September 14, 2020 Headquartered in Calabasas, California, Harbor Freight Tools is a discount tool and equipment retailer. In a small building in North Hollywood, California, way back in 1977, Eric Smidt and … Read more
maurices
September 6, 2020 “First with more of everything new in fashion.“ When E. Maurice Labovitz opened his first women’s clothing store in 1931, he was determined to make it work. … Read more
U.S. retailers closing in 2020
August 30, 2020 Let’s face it, we’re living in a very different world than we were just a few years ago. Online shopping has made it easy for shoppers to … Read more
Closing doors in 2020
August 23, 2020 Businesses Closing in 2020 in CanadaDue to COVID 19 Online shopping has had a huge impact on brick-and-mortar stores. Now, add a global pandemic to that and … Read more
Stein Mart
August 16, 2020 Stein Mart is a U.S. discount department store chain based in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1908, Russian Jewish immigrant Sam Stein opened his first Stein Mart Greenville, Mississippi. Following Sam’s death in 1932, … Read more