My experience golfing while TopGolf expands

 

TopGolf is apparently planning a second Sacramento area location in Natomas, according to a Sacramento councilmember. I was surprised to learn about this because I didn't know our area was prime to have two. If you don't know about TopGolf, they have a location in Roseville off Hwy 65 off of Blue Oaks Blvd and are a place to eat and drink while practicing at their driving range. This post is relevant to me because I recently played at TopGolf a couple weeks ago with my friend who loves to play golf, and had a really fun time working on improving my golf skills because I am also participating in Special Olympics golf at the time of this writing. I have been playing at Empire Ranch for the past few weeks and a few weeks ago at the course was the first time I played golf. So, I am new at the sport and am learning every week on how to improve on the sport. I am very pleased that TopGolf is planning on expanding their presence in Sacramento and that the Sacramento region is still popular for new locations of new businesses. 

Here's the article: https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2024/08/12/topgolf-natomas-location-talamantes.html

Here's TopGolf's website to learn more about them and where they have locations: https://topgolf.com/us/

I hope you enjoyed reading about the article and that you learned more about TopGolf and are inspired to visit it.

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Big Lots closures are not equal. Why does Big Lots struggle more in California than in other states??

 Big Lots is closing 300 stores, which includes 75 out of 109 of their California stores. Which includes most of their Sacramento stores such as:

Big Lots is closing five Sacramento area stores:

Elk Grove

Folsom-Greenback

North Highlands

Placerville (I actually learned this bad news as I was driving to visit Pollock Pines to take pictures for my new video, which I would highly recommend checking out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBGOFW81lgQ&t=1s. 

Why does another Placerville store have to close??)

Sacramento-Valley Hi

Sacramento-La Riveria

Woodland

Which leaves Big Lots with one Sacramento area store that is not closing:

Roseville

But states such as their home state of Ohio with 102 stores only has 6 closures set, and even Texas with 116 stores has no closures set. https://chainstoreage.com/big-lots-closing-about-300-stores-california-takes-big-hit

Here's full closure list: https://www.fastcompany.com/91168279/big-lots-store-closings-new-full-list-of-doomed-locations-35-states

And their website of their stores: https://local.biglots.com/

And Big Lots is saying they are working on a turnaround plan that seems to be working: https://www.retaildive.com/news/is-big-lots-transformation-plan-enough-to-save-it/722589/

What do you think? Why are they struggling a lot more in California than other places? Are Walmart and Target much more popular in California than other states, or since Rite Aid still operates in California, which isn't that common in many states anymore with many of them being pared down to CVS and Walgreens in that industry, does it drive business away from Big Lots?? Do people in California think less of Big Lots and have less of a reputation than in the Midwest?? Or has Big Lots become less of a discounter in California than it is in other places??