The New Retail Thread

[commuter guy]

Earls purchased the Dugout dive bar's liquor license for this location. An example where the regulatory imposed scarcity of liquor licenses resulted in the BU area losing a bar/liquor license to an area with higher consumer/corporate demand.

 

[taketern]

Whole Foods coming to the Seaport

Whole Foods says new smaller-format store coming to Boston

Whole Foods Market is bringing its smaller Daily Shop concept to Boston’s Seaport, part of a broader expansion plan.

www.wcvb.com

 

[JumboBuc]

Whole Foods coming to the Seaport

Whole Foods says new smaller-format store coming to Boston

Whole Foods Market is bringing its smaller Daily Shop concept to Boston’s Seaport, part of a broader expansion plan.

www.wcvb.com

Interesting location - this is like a 4 minute walk from Trader Joe's.

 

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The Back Bay outpost of the fast-growing, Manhattan, N.Y.-based 7th Street Burger, at 267 Newbury St., which currently operates daily from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., is requesting that its closing time be extended to 2 a.m., said Jon Aieta, an attorney for the applicant.


In another matter, representatives for the existing Back Bay outpost of another chain of fast-casual burger restaurants, Shake Shack at 236 Newbury St., also broached the idea of closing at a later hour.


Two Newbury Street burger joints ponder late-night hours
 – The Boston Sun

 

[JeffDowntown]

Two Newbury Street burger joints ponder late-night hours
 – The Boston Sun

Hum, two Newbury Street burger joints (that are 500 feet apart) both petitioning for late night hours at the same time.

I smell the work of a marketing firm selling both chains the same service need analysis for a late night location (one) in that part of Newbury. Somebody is not going to do well with the service expansion (or perhaps both fail by dilution of customer base).

 

[shmessy]

Hum, two Newbury Street burger joints (that are 500 feet apart) both petitioning for late night hours at the same time.

I smell the work of a marketing firm selling both chains the same service need analysis for a late night location (one) in that part of Newbury. Somebody is not going to do well with the service expansion (or perhaps both fail by dilution of customer base).

I agree- you're probably onto something there - too much of a coincidence.

But, maybe, Boston is growing up and becoming a real city? I don't care what the origin of the idea is - - I just am in favor of increased urbanity. More housing units, more 24/7 dynamic? Bring it on. Enough with the Sleepy Hamlet.

I met someone last year who bumped into Nomar Garciaparra a couple months earlier. He asked him his favorite place he was as a player. He answered "Boston - - it's my favorite town...........but Chicago is my favorite CITY".

Cool quote, but that irked me.