Market making final push for its name change.Byline: Retail Notebook by The Register-Guard SIGN OF THE TIMES: Shoppers at the two former Oasis Fine Foods Marketplaces in Eugene may be wondering why one grocery store has a new name while the other appears to be clinging to the past. Last October, the Oasis store on Willamette Street in south Eugene finally got a Wild Oats Market sign, four years after the Boulder-based company of the same name bought Oasis from its Eugene founders. Today, however, the north store on Willakenzie Road still sports the Oasis Fine Foods signs. Why the delay? Wild Oats submitted signage plans to its north Eugene landlord, Jim Murray of Sunriver, just before the winter holidays. Murray has given his approval to the new sign that will be put on his building, but he said Wednesday that Wild Oats may propose additional changes, such as new paint and awnings. Wild Oats, along with Bi-Mart, is an anchor tenant at the shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . In fact, the center was named Oasis Plaza in honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. of the 22,500-square-foot natural foods store, which was started by Murray's friends, Ann Fulkerson and Doug Brown Doug Brown may refer to one of the following people:
In spite of in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding. See also: Spite the delay, Murray's leasing agent, Maria Duncan of Commercial Group Northwest L.L.C., said Murray expects to reach agreement with Wild Oats. The grocery chain hopes to get new signs on the store in the next three months, Wild Oats spokeswoman Sonja Tuitele said. Wild Oats has been converting acquired grocery stores to the Wild Oats name for about three years, she said. In 1999, the firm operated stores under 14 different names, but today that has been whittled to just five. Wild Oats has 107 stores in 23 states and British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography , Canada. Oasis may be evaporating as a marketing concept in Eugene. But some Wild Oats-owned stores in other cities are keeping their old names, including Nature's, which has seven outlets in the Portland area and Vancouver Wash. "Nature's has strong name equity with people in the Northwest," Tuitele said. The same could have been said for Oasis, but with just two stores in Eugene, the equity wasn't enough. HONEY OF A SPOT: HoneyBaked Ham, which operated as a kiosk kiosk Originally, in Islamic architecture, an open circular pavilion consisting of a roof supported by pillars. The word has been applied to a Turkish summer garden pavilion and a type of early Persian mosque. in Valley River Center Valley River Center is a shopping mall located in Eugene, Oregon. As the largest shopping center south of Portland and north of San Francisco, this mall comprises over 130 local and national stores and restaurants. in Eugene during the holiday shopping season, plans to open a restaurant in the mall in February. The HoneyBaked franchise, which is owned by Graycase Investments of Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). , Calif., will be next to Meier & Frank in a space formerly occupied by The Cookie cookie File or part of a file put on a Web user's hard disk by a Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to target Web advertising, and to keep track of the products a user wishes to Cottage. Until last June, HoneyBaked Ham had a restaurant across from the mall in the Valley River Plaza building. That space, along with space previously occupied by two clothing stores, has been converted to the Cost Plus World Market. Written by business reporter Ed Russo. Retail Notebook runs Thursdays. To include items, call 485-1234, Ext. 2359, or e-mail erusso@guardnet.com. |
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