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Title: Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Bruce on June 24, 2020, 09:52:11 PM
Any trends you notice in which stores decide to locate nearby or in the same strip mall?

Around my part of Washington, there are several instances where a Dollar Tree has opened a store next to an existing Safeway. Off the top of my head, there's examples in Arlington, Marysville, Bothell, and North Seattle.

EDIT: This does not refer to official combinations like those under Yum! brands. It's ones that are mostly by coincidence.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: ozarkman417 on June 24, 2020, 09:55:49 PM
Some Yum! Stores such as KFC, A&W, and Long John Silvers will either have two restaurants in the same building or combine menus to make a 2-in-1 restaurant.

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Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: webny99 on June 24, 2020, 10:03:48 PM
In Canada, Tim Horton's and Wendy's tend to locate together.

A super local example is Bill Gray's (hamburger restaurant) and Abbott's (frozen custard).
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: ftballfan on June 24, 2020, 10:10:00 PM
In my hometown (and several other smaller communities), KFC and Taco Bell share buildings
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: ozarkman417 on June 24, 2020, 10:12:45 PM
Here, when a Walgreens gets built, a CVS soon follows nearby.

SM-G965U

Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: sbeaver44 on June 24, 2020, 10:20:01 PM
Target/Kohls
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Roadrunner75 on June 24, 2020, 11:09:22 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on June 24, 2020, 10:10:00 PM
In my hometown (and several other smaller communities), KFC and Taco Bell share buildings
We used to have a couple of those, but they either closed or went back to just one of the two.  I never understood why that didn't work out - I can't remember if they had a more limited menu for each.  It seemed like a good idea.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: hotdogPi on June 25, 2020, 06:02:06 AM
Dunkin Donuts seems to be inside a lot of gas stations in this area.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: SEWIGuy on June 25, 2020, 08:22:54 AM
There are a number of locations in Wisconsin where a Starbucks is in the same outlot as an AT&T store.

My understanding is that there is a developer in southern Wisconsin that specializes in these outlots and has good relationships with both companies.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: roadman65 on June 25, 2020, 08:36:31 AM
Quote from: Bruce on June 24, 2020, 09:52:11 PM
Any trends you notice in which stores decide to locate nearby or in the same strip mall?

Around my part of Washington, there are several instances where a Dollar Tree has opened a store next to an existing Safeway. Off the top of my head, there's examples in Arlington, Marysville, Bothell, and North Seattle.

EDIT: This does not refer to official combinations like those under Yum! brands. It's ones that are mostly by coincidence.
Also note that when Dollar Tree opens up on a mal with a supermarket, they are forbidden to sell frozen foods and some other room temperature items for the supermarkets do not want to lose business to the smaller stores. I thought that was unconstitutional as our nation is based upon free enterprise and should not be told by a larger store what you should or should not sell.

Also many Baskin Robbin Ice Cream Stores are inside a Dunkin Donuts in Florida.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: EpicRoadways on June 25, 2020, 08:41:04 AM
What about hotels? Mid-range companies like Hilton and Mariott often seem to develop two or three hotels under different names (often one extended-stay property and one lower-tier property) that share parking lots and sometimes other facilities like pools and lobbies. Some common ones that I've seen more than once are Hampton/Home2Suites and Hampton/Homewood Suites on the Hilton side and Courtyard/Residence Inn and TownePlace/Springhill on the Marriott side. 
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: roadman65 on June 25, 2020, 08:53:29 AM
Quote from: EpicRoadways on June 25, 2020, 08:41:04 AM
What about hotels? Mid-range companies like Hilton and Mariott often seem to develop two or three hotels under different names (often one extended-stay property and one lower-tier property) that share parking lots and sometimes other facilities like pools and lobbies. Some common ones that I've seen more than once are Hampton/Home2Suites and Hampton/Homewood Suites on the Hilton side and Courtyard/Residence Inn and TownePlace/Springhill on the Marriott side. 
They are the same parent corporation though.  Hilton and Hampton are the same and so are Courtyard and Residence Inns.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Ned Weasel on June 25, 2020, 10:47:24 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on June 25, 2020, 08:36:31 AM
Also many Baskin Robbin Ice Cream Stores are inside a Dunkin Donuts in Florida.

I've been to one location that had a Dunkin' Donuts, a Baskin-Robbins, and a Togo's in the same building.  I think it was in New Jersey.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: tdindy88 on June 25, 2020, 10:54:12 AM
One I've noticed a lot in Indiana, and perhaps its found in other states: Meijer and Menards. It's quite uncanny how these two stores are across the street from each other or on the same side of the street in the same area. Perhaps fitting since they're both Midwestern stores.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: 1995hoo on June 25, 2020, 11:43:00 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on June 25, 2020, 08:36:31 AM
Also note that when Dollar Tree opens up on a mal with a supermarket, they are forbidden to sell frozen foods and some other room temperature items for the supermarkets do not want to lose business to the smaller stores. I thought that was unconstitutional as our nation is based upon free enterprise and should not be told by a larger store what you should or should not sell.

Also many Baskin Robbin Ice Cream Stores are inside a Dunkin Donuts in Florida.

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Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Sctvhound on June 25, 2020, 11:45:57 AM
Family Dollar and Dollar General. Go to almost any decent town in South Carolina and you'll see both near each other.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: webny99 on June 25, 2020, 12:00:53 PM
Quote from: 1 on June 25, 2020, 06:02:06 AM
Dunkin Donuts seems to be inside a lot of gas stations in this area.

Same here. There are many in gas stations, although it seems to be about 60%-40% in favor of standalone buildings (or part of a plaza).
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: kphoger on June 25, 2020, 12:39:50 PM
Quote from: sbeaver44 on June 24, 2020, 10:20:01 PM
Target/Kohls

Yes, I've noticed that too.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: jp the roadgeek on June 25, 2020, 02:23:47 PM
Quote from: kphoger on June 25, 2020, 12:39:50 PM
Quote from: sbeaver44 on June 24, 2020, 10:20:01 PM
Target/Kohls

Yes, I've noticed that too.

I've noticed Target/Best Buy more.  My town has a Target but no Kohl's (or Best Buy either).  Three mall areas near me have a Best Buy either in or near the mall and a Target within a mile.  There's also a retail strip with a Target and Best Buy separated by about a half a mile both on the same side of the road.  Seeing they're both Minnesota based, I often wondered if they were owned by the same company.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: SectorZ on June 25, 2020, 04:07:02 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on June 25, 2020, 11:43:00 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on June 25, 2020, 08:36:31 AM
Also note that when Dollar Tree opens up on a mal with a supermarket, they are forbidden to sell frozen foods and some other room temperature items for the supermarkets do not want to lose business to the smaller stores. I thought that was unconstitutional as our nation is based upon free enterprise and should not be told by a larger store what you should or should not sell.

Also many Baskin Robbin Ice Cream Stores are inside a Dunkin Donuts in Florida.

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Pretty sure that's in the frozen foods addendum at the end of the Constitution that got left out.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: kphoger on June 25, 2020, 04:20:49 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on June 25, 2020, 04:07:02 PM

Quote from: 1995hoo on June 25, 2020, 11:43:00 AM

Quote from: roadman65 on June 25, 2020, 08:36:31 AM
Also note that when Dollar Tree opens up on a mal with a supermarket, they are forbidden to sell frozen foods and some other room temperature items for the supermarkets do not want to lose business to the smaller stores. I thought that was unconstitutional as our nation is based upon free enterprise and should not be told by a larger store what you should or should not sell.

Also many Baskin Robbin Ice Cream Stores are inside a Dunkin Donuts in Florida.

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Pretty sure that's in the frozen foods addendum at the end of the Constitution that got left out.

Just in case it needs to be spelled out for anyone...

Nothing in the US Constitution prohibits states from passing laws preventing the kind of thing described.  And, if it isn't actually a law that's making for the situation you describe, then the Constitution doesn't even enter into it.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: GaryV on June 25, 2020, 04:23:25 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on June 25, 2020, 02:23:47 PM
Quote from: kphoger on June 25, 2020, 12:39:50 PM
Quote from: sbeaver44 on June 24, 2020, 10:20:01 PM
Target/Kohls

Yes, I've noticed that too.

I've noticed Target/Best Buy more.  My town has a Target but no Kohl's (or Best Buy either).  Three mall areas near me have a Best Buy either in or near the mall and a Target within a mile.  There's also a retail strip with a Target and Best Buy separated by about a half a mile both on the same side of the road.  Seeing they're both Minnesota based, I often wondered if they were owned by the same company.

Isn't it likely that the various retail businesses have done similar market studies, and found out (independently) that an area would be good for their firm?

A while back I heard that at least one church denomination was discontinuing expensive demographic studies on where to build new churches.  They just looked at where the new McDonald's were going up.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: kphoger on June 25, 2020, 04:26:11 PM
Quote from: GaryV on June 25, 2020, 04:23:25 PM
A while back I heard that at least one church denomination was discontinuing expensive demographic studies on where to build new churches.  They just looked at where the new McDonald's were going up.

Just my opinion, but that sounds more like a joke than reality.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Road Hog on June 25, 2020, 05:15:37 PM
In North Texas I have noticed that almost everywhere there's an In-N-Out Burger, there's a Raising Cane's within a stone's throw.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: 1995hoo on June 25, 2020, 05:22:59 PM
Quote from: kphoger on June 25, 2020, 04:20:49 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on June 25, 2020, 04:07:02 PM

Quote from: 1995hoo on June 25, 2020, 11:43:00 AM

Quote from: roadman65 on June 25, 2020, 08:36:31 AM
Also note that when Dollar Tree opens up on a mal with a supermarket, they are forbidden to sell frozen foods and some other room temperature items for the supermarkets do not want to lose business to the smaller stores. I thought that was unconstitutional as our nation is based upon free enterprise and should not be told by a larger store what you should or should not sell.

Also many Baskin Robbin Ice Cream Stores are inside a Dunkin Donuts in Florida.

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Pretty sure that's in the frozen foods addendum at the end of the Constitution that got left out.

Just in case it needs to be spelled out for anyone...

Nothing in the US Constitution prohibits states from passing laws preventing the kind of thing described.  And, if it isn't actually a law that's making for the situation you describe, then the Constitution doesn't even enter into it.

Not to mention nothing in the Constitution, or for that matter in almost any state's law, prohibits a landlord from giving certain tenants leases that restrict other tenants' activities. That's extremely common. It's freedom to contract as you see fit. It's really strange, for example, that a shopping center near where I live has two barbershops located directly next to each other.

An example is that often if a shopping center allows one fast-food restaurant with a drive-thru, that restaurant's lease may prohibit another drive-thru unless the food is a totally different type (example, McDonald's might not object to Taco Bell, but they might object to Burger King).
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: jeffandnicole on June 25, 2020, 05:41:40 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on June 25, 2020, 08:53:29 AM
Quote from: EpicRoadways on June 25, 2020, 08:41:04 AM
What about hotels? Mid-range companies like Hilton and Mariott often seem to develop two or three hotels under different names (often one extended-stay property and one lower-tier property) that share parking lots and sometimes other facilities like pools and lobbies. Some common ones that I've seen more than once are Hampton/Home2Suites and Hampton/Homewood Suites on the Hilton side and Courtyard/Residence Inn and TownePlace/Springhill on the Marriott side. 
They are the same parent corporation though.  Hilton and Hampton are the same and so are Courtyard and Residence Inns.


Many hotels are owned by franchisees, and those franchisees often have similar hotels by competing companies.  So it's also not unusual to see competing hotels next to each other, such as a Courtyard by Marriott and a Hampton Inn by Hilton, to grab the business of loyal travelers to either brand.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: JMoses24 on June 25, 2020, 08:41:45 PM
Here in Oklahoma City (and I'm sure other places as well), Hobby Lobby is almost always located very near a Chick-Fil-A. Both being Christian owned businesses, this is logical, as both are closed Sundays.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: ftballfan on June 25, 2020, 10:04:05 PM
Quote from: Sctvhound on June 25, 2020, 11:45:57 AM
Family Dollar and Dollar General. Go to almost any decent town in South Carolina and you'll see both near each other.
Fife Lake, MI has a Family Dollar on one corner and Dollar General is going in on the opposite corner. Nearby Mesick has Family Dollar and Dollar General right next to each other.

Save-a-Lot and Family Dollar are right next to each other in Manistee and Newaygo.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: allniter89 on June 25, 2020, 10:32:27 PM
Sams & Lowes are often adjacent
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Bruce on June 26, 2020, 12:20:58 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on June 25, 2020, 08:36:31 AM
Also note that when Dollar Tree opens up on a mal with a supermarket, they are forbidden to sell frozen foods and some other room temperature items for the supermarkets do not want to lose business to the smaller stores. I thought that was unconstitutional as our nation is based upon free enterprise and should not be told by a larger store what you should or should not sell.

That's not the case with the ones in my area. It must vary based on the property owner/manager or the supermarket chain.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Scott5114 on June 26, 2020, 01:28:37 AM
Quote from: JMoses24 on June 25, 2020, 08:41:45 PM
Here in Oklahoma City (and I'm sure other places as well), Hobby Lobby is almost always located very near a Chick-Fil-A. Both being Christian owned businesses, this is logical, as both are closed Sundays.

There's often a Mardel nearby too, because it's Hobby Lobby's explicitly Christian-oriented arm.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: kphoger on June 26, 2020, 09:48:46 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on June 26, 2020, 01:28:37 AM

Quote from: JMoses24 on June 25, 2020, 08:41:45 PM
Here in Oklahoma City (and I'm sure other places as well), Hobby Lobby is almost always located very near a Chick-Fil-A. Both being Christian owned businesses, this is logical, as both are closed Sundays.

There's often a Mardel nearby too, because it's Hobby Lobby's explicitly Christian-oriented arm.

On Wichita's east side, there is a Mardel on the opposite quadrant of a large interchange from a Hobby Lobby, but the Mardel moved in quite recently, and it's a rather built-up area.  Also, Hobby Lobby relocated there from a different location.  There is no CFA nearby either location.  It is the only Mardel in town.

On the west side, CFA is a mile away from Hobby Lobby, across an ocean of strip malls, restaurants, and all kinds of stores.

In neighboring Derby, CFA is in front of Hobby Lobby.  The restaurant is in the middle of a row of restaurants, and the store is in the middle of a row of large stores.  So I don't know if it's just coincidental or done that way on purpose.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Bluenoser on June 26, 2020, 10:20:40 AM
Quote from: webny99 on June 24, 2020, 10:03:48 PM
In Canada, Tim Horton's and Wendy's tend to locate together.
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Wendy's owned Tim Hortons for several years, before selling it to the owners of Burger King. There are Tims combos with both in my area...Tims/Wendy's here in Amherst. and a Tims/BK across the border in Sackville. NB (previously a Tims/Wendy's before Wendy's moved out, that end was vacant to about 2 years ago when BK moved in).
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: doorknob60 on June 26, 2020, 03:12:24 PM
GameStop and Walmart are always next to each other around Boise. The only GameStop (in Boise, Garden City, Meridian, Nampa, and Caldwell) that's not within 1/2 mile of a Walmart (often in the same parking lot) is the one inside the mall.

I can't think of any other obvious patterns around Boise, though I'm sure there are some. Well actually, many Albertsons parking lots have a Stinker Sinclair gas station in them, but that's because they used to be Albertsons Express then they sold them all to Stinker, so that doesn't really count. Also, stuff like having McDonalds in Jacksons gas stations or Starbucks or US Bank inside Albertsons or Fred Meyer doesn't really count either IMO.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: kphoger on June 26, 2020, 03:20:59 PM
Quote from: doorknob60 on June 26, 2020, 03:12:24 PM
GameStop and Walmart

Three of the seven Game Stop locations in the Wichita area are in front of a Wal-Mart.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Konza on June 26, 2020, 03:56:49 PM

Quote from: Bruce on June 24, 2020, 09:52:11 PM

Also note that when Dollar Tree opens up on a mal with a supermarket, they are forbidden to sell frozen foods and some other room temperature items for the supermarkets do not want to lose business to the smaller stores. I thought that was unconstitutional as our nation is based upon free enterprise and should not be told by a larger store what you should or should not sell.

Also many Baskin Robbin Ice Cream Stores are inside a Dunkin Donuts in Florida.

Not unconstitutional in any way.  The supermarket is the big dog, and its agreement with the shopping center owner can contain any restrictions against other businesses that the two can agree to.  It is not uncommon for tenants in shopping centers to have exclusivity clauses (that forbid the landlord from leasing to a direct competitor) in their lease agreements, either.

Baskin-Robbins and Dunkin' Donuts are subsidiaries of the same company- Dunkin' Brands.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Scott5114 on June 27, 2020, 01:49:14 PM
Quote from: Konza on June 26, 2020, 03:56:49 PM

Quote from: Bruce on June 24, 2020, 09:52:11 PM

Also note that when Dollar Tree opens up on a mal with a supermarket, they are forbidden to sell frozen foods and some other room temperature items for the supermarkets do not want to lose business to the smaller stores. I thought that was unconstitutional as our nation is based upon free enterprise and should not be told by a larger store what you should or should not sell.

Also many Baskin Robbin Ice Cream Stores are inside a Dunkin Donuts in Florida.

Not unconstitutional in any way.  The supermarket is the big dog, and its agreement with the shopping center owner can contain any restrictions against other businesses that the two can agree to.  It is not uncommon for tenants in shopping centers to have exclusivity clauses (that forbid the landlord from leasing to a direct competitor) in their lease agreements, either.

Some of my friends that own a board game cafe ran into this when they were trying to move their location. They found the perfect space that had previously been leased by a defunct bar-and-grill type restaurant. But they were unable to get a lease because a hot dog restaurant in the same shopping center objected to another "restaurant" moving in, despite the fact that a board game cafe is clearly not shooting for the same customer base as a hot dog restaurant, and that there had previously been a restaurant occupying the space.

Quote
Baskin-Robbins and Dunkin' Donuts are subsidiaries of the same company- Dunkin' Brands.

I was really hoping this was leading up to the parent company being called Dunkin-Robbins.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: ftballfan on June 27, 2020, 03:02:32 PM
In Ludington, GameStop is in a plaza in front of Walmart.
In Ypsilanti, GameStop is in a plaza adjacent to Walmart.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: renegade on June 27, 2020, 03:24:40 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on June 27, 2020, 03:02:32 PM
In Ludington, GameStop is in a plaza in front of Walmart.
In Ypsilanti, GameStop is in a plaza adjacent to Walmart.
Not anymore.

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/03/walmart-supercenter-in-ypsilanti-township-to-close.html
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: hbelkins on June 27, 2020, 06:20:09 PM
Around here, you'll see a lot of Lowe's and Walmart in the same center.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: ilpt4u on June 27, 2020, 06:26:32 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on June 25, 2020, 02:23:47 PM
Quote from: kphoger on June 25, 2020, 12:39:50 PM
Quote from: sbeaver44 on June 24, 2020, 10:20:01 PM
Target/Kohls

Yes, I've noticed that too.

I've noticed Target/Best Buy more.  My town has a Target but no Kohl's (or Best Buy either).  Three mall areas near me have a Best Buy either in or near the mall and a Target within a mile.  There's also a retail strip with a Target and Best Buy separated by about a half a mile both on the same side of the road.  Seeing they're both Minnesota based, I often wondered if they were owned by the same company.
My town has a Best Buy and a Kohl's, but no Target. Gotta head over to Marion for Target, but they have no Best Buy nor Kohl's there
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: bing101 on June 27, 2020, 06:55:29 PM
In parts of California Jollibee (Filipino Fast food outlet) tends to be next door with Seafood City Supermarket.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafood_City (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafood_City)
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Bruce on June 27, 2020, 10:06:36 PM
Quote from: bing101 on June 27, 2020, 06:55:29 PM
In parts of California Jollibee (Filipino Fast food outlet) tends to be next door with Seafood City Supermarket.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafood_City (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafood_City)

Same with the sole outlet in Washington at Southcenter Mall.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: ftballfan on June 28, 2020, 02:45:26 PM
Quote from: renegade on June 27, 2020, 03:24:40 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on June 27, 2020, 03:02:32 PM
In Ludington, GameStop is in a plaza in front of Walmart.
In Ypsilanti, GameStop is in a plaza adjacent to Walmart.
Not anymore.

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/03/walmart-supercenter-in-ypsilanti-township-to-close.html
I completely missed that! Went in that store once and found it to be dirty and run-down. There's Mejier and Target two miles to the west and four Krogers within five miles of it, not to mention a much better looking Walmart around five miles to the southwest along Michigan Avenue.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Flint1979 on June 28, 2020, 05:23:19 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on June 27, 2020, 03:02:32 PM
In Ludington, GameStop is in a plaza in front of Walmart.
In Ypsilanti, GameStop is in a plaza adjacent to Walmart.
Saginaw Township's Walmart has a Game Stop in a plaza across from it too.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: andrepoiy on June 28, 2020, 07:23:52 PM
I've noticed that many Esso gas stations (Esso is Canadian Exxon) have Tim Hortons in them.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: RobbieL2415 on June 29, 2020, 01:13:39 PM
Many Citgos here have Dunkin Donuts and Subway.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: jp the roadgeek on June 29, 2020, 01:46:04 PM
Quote from: Flint1979 on June 28, 2020, 05:23:19 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on June 27, 2020, 03:02:32 PM
In Ludington, GameStop is in a plaza in front of Walmart.
In Ypsilanti, GameStop is in a plaza adjacent to Walmart.
Saginaw Township's Walmart has a Game Stop in a plaza across from it too.

I can think of a couple of instances in CT of GameStop being in the same strip mall as Walmart (Hartford, Rocky Hill, and Southington come to mind).
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: ari-s-drives on June 29, 2020, 01:51:26 PM
I may be imagining it, but near me and on a lot of the I-5 corridor in the Central Valley there are a lot of Starbucks located near McDonalds.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: dlsterner on June 29, 2020, 10:44:38 PM
Quote from: andrepoiy on June 28, 2020, 07:23:52 PM
I've noticed that many Esso gas stations (Esso is Canadian Exxon) have Tim Hortons in them.

I remember (going back several decades) when stations were branded as "Esso" in most of the US and as "Enco" in a few other parts of the US before they were re-branded as "Exxon" (around 1973 I think).
So, rather than "Esso is Canadian Exxon", you might say "Exxon is USA Esso" :)

Not picking on you, just showing a fun factoid.
Title: Re: Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area
Post by: roadman65 on June 30, 2020, 03:45:30 PM
Loves Truck Stop and Arbys are usually together.
Title: Re: Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on June 30, 2020, 03:46:18 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on June 30, 2020, 03:45:30 PM
Loves Truck Stop and Arbys are usually together.

In the Midwest it's Hardees.
Title: Re: Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area
Post by: kphoger on June 30, 2020, 03:49:09 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 30, 2020, 03:46:18 PM

Quote from: roadman65 on June 30, 2020, 03:45:30 PM
Loves Truck Stop and Arbys are usually together.

In the Midwest it's Hardees.

I see Subway and Love's paired together a lot more.
Title: Re: Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area
Post by: roadman65 on June 30, 2020, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: kphoger on June 30, 2020, 03:49:09 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 30, 2020, 03:46:18 PM

Quote from: roadman65 on June 30, 2020, 03:45:30 PM
Loves Truck Stop and Arbys are usually together.

In the Midwest it's Hardees.

I see Subway and Love's paired together a lot more.
Whatever Happened to Hess and Blimpie?  Or better yet Hess and Godfathers Pizza?

I know Hess got rebranded as Speedway and I am not sure about the two food stores in there.  However, Speedway does sell Dunkin Coffee.
Title: Re: Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area
Post by: kphoger on June 30, 2020, 03:58:17 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on June 30, 2020, 03:54:33 PM
Whatever Happened to Hess and Blimpie?  Or better yet Hess and Godfathers Pizza?

I know Hess got rebranded as Speedway and I am not sure about the two food stores in there.  However, Speedway does sell Dunkin Coffee.

Pertinent post from another thread:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=12478.msg2364721#msg2364721 (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=12478.msg2364721#msg2364721)
Title: Re: Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area
Post by: roadman65 on June 30, 2020, 04:01:40 PM
Quote from: kphoger on June 30, 2020, 03:58:17 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on June 30, 2020, 03:54:33 PM
Whatever Happened to Hess and Blimpie?  Or better yet Hess and Godfathers Pizza?

I know Hess got rebranded as Speedway and I am not sure about the two food stores in there.  However, Speedway does sell Dunkin Coffee.

Pertinent post from another thread:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=12478.msg2364721#msg2364721 (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=12478.msg2364721#msg2364721)

It does not cover Godfathers Pizza.

Anyway there is always Google if it directs to the right links.

Edit:  Yes they are still around but very few.  It linked me to their website and location finder.  I thought they went belly up. 
Title: Re: Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Bruce on June 30, 2020, 06:23:31 PM
A reminder: this thread was supposed to be for unofficial retail combinations that happen by coincidence, rather than contracted pairings (like the travel center ones being described)...
Title: Re: Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area
Post by: kphoger on July 01, 2020, 09:25:55 AM
Quote from: Bruce on June 30, 2020, 06:23:31 PM
A reminder: this thread was supposed to be for unofficial retail combinations that happen by coincidence, rather than contracted pairings (like the travel center ones being described)...

Wasn't that edited into the OP five days later?  And didn't the thread title not have the word 'unofficial' until that time either?

At the time I first started reading this thread (and thus first read the topic and OP), it said nothing about that.
Title: Re: Common retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Road Hog on July 10, 2020, 03:09:59 PM
Quote from: dlsterner on June 29, 2020, 10:44:38 PM
Quote from: andrepoiy on June 28, 2020, 07:23:52 PM
I've noticed that many Esso gas stations (Esso is Canadian Exxon) have Tim Hortons in them.

I remember (going back several decades) when stations were branded as "Esso" in most of the US and as "Enco" in a few other parts of the US before they were re-branded as "Exxon" (around 1973 I think).
So, rather than "Esso is Canadian Exxon", you might say "Exxon is USA Esso" :)

Not picking on you, just showing a fun factoid.
They are still branded as Esso in Europe as well. I guess if one is old enough they could remember when it was still Humble Oil too.
Title: Re: Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area
Post by: Brandon on July 10, 2020, 03:36:04 PM
At one time, many Chicagoland malls would be anchored by the following pairs:

Montgomery Ward & Wieboldt's - Carson Pirie Scott would often join them (Yorktown, Lincoln Mall, Orland Park Place, Jefferson Square, Startford Square (with Field's oddly enough), Randhurst).
Sears & Marshall Field's (Park Forest Plaza, River Oaks, Orland Square, Louis Joliet Mall, Fox Valley, Oakbrook Center, Hawthorn, Spring Hill Mall, Woodfield).
But never really mixed between the two pairs (Old Orchard and Stratford Square notwithstanding).

One would also find often Walgreens in the same center with Dominick's as Dominick's, at the time, lacked a pharmacy, unlike the official pairing of Jewel and Osco (aka Jewel-Osco).
Title: Re: Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area
Post by: ibthebigd on July 15, 2020, 10:06:45 PM
Furniture Stores like to be near each other.

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