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Topic: Stores Commiting Suicide (Read 43482 times)
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Signe
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Here's a list: Circuit City (filed Chapter 11) Ann Taylor- 117 stores nationwide closing Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine's to close 150 stores nationwide Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January Cache will close all stores Talbots closing down specialty stores J. Jill closing all stores (owned by Talbots) Pacific Sunwear (also owned by Talbots) GAP closing 85 stores Footlocker closing 140 stores more to close after January Wickes Furniture closing down Levitz closing down remaining stores Bombay closing remaining stores Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January Whitehall closing all stores Piercing Pagoda closing all stores Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January. Home Depot closing 15 stores 1 in NJ ( New Brunswick ) Macys to close 9 stores after January Linens and Things closing all stores Movie Galley Closing all stores Pep Boys Closing 33 stores Sprint/Nextel closing 133 stores JC Penney closing a number of stores after January Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores. Wilson Leather closing down all stores Sharper Image closing down all stores K B Toys closing 356 stores Loews to close down some stores Dillard's to close some stores I guess you can check to see if they're closing in your area. 
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« Last Edit: December 01, 2008, 08:23:37 AM by schild »
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Reg
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Piercing Pagoda?
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Signe
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I kind of giggled at that one, too. They have little stands set up in malls. They've been around since I was a kid. I think they only do ears. Maybe noses, dunno. Everyone in the mall gets to watch while your ears bleed. Kinda cool, actually.
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Oban
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If any of those stores sold something of value, I would be worried.
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Signe
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If any of those stores sold something of value, I would be worried.
There's some furniture storres, Home Depots, Macy's, all sorts of stores on that list that sell things most people might want or need.
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Lantyssa
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Kitchen stuff, clothes (always need more clothes), and I have been thinking about getting more piercings. Probably some great white elephant gifts in all that.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Draegan
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I didn't know there was a Home Depot in my hometown. Weird.
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Signe
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Not sure you really want getting piercings from a stand in the mall. 
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Nevermore
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They only do ears anyway, iirc. Not that you'd want to get anything else pierced in a mall kiosk. 
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Lantyssa
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I'm kidding, Signe. Not like they're expensive from a tattoo and piercing studio. We've only got a dozen that are closer than any mall is to me.
The thing keeping me from doing it is I know I'll get fixated on wanting a tattoo if I walk into one.
Fake edit to add: I want more ear piercings. Other areas don't interest me. On me.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Signe
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Of course, you nearly sawed off your fingers cutting up dead polar bears. Obviously, you are immune to disease! 
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Oban
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There's some furniture storres, Home Depots, Macy's, all sorts of stores on that list that sell things most people might want or need.
Bombay and Ethan Allen sell low quality but high priced crap being passed off as furniture. Home Depot requires homes, I am guessing these stores are closing in areas of high foreclosures. Macy's has gone down hill for so long, and it is certainly not up to par with Nieman Marcus or Nordstroms. It sounds to me like these stores are closing due to their inability to compete.
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Cyrrex
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There's some furniture storres, Home Depots, Macy's, all sorts of stores on that list that sell things most people might want or need.
Bombay and Ethan Allen sell low quality but high priced crap being passed off as furniture. Home Depot requires homes, I am guessing these stores are closing in areas of high foreclosures. Macy's has gone down hill for so long, and it is certainly not up to par with Nieman Marcus or Nordstroms. It sounds to me like these stores are closing due to their inability to compete. I'm sure that's true much of the time, but probably not all of the time. The recession just seems to be culling the weak and stupid, but there will be innocents along the way. Oh, and I know there is a whole thread dedicated to it, but Circuit City deserves as much ire as they can get. WEEKS after they begin closing stores, and how much of that shit is really on sale? Practically none of it. Yeah, I know some of this shit is marked up to 30% off, but it isn't. The only stuff I can tell that is noticeably cheaper are all the things that people know the cost of (like games, dvds, etc...everyone knows a dvd costs about 15 bucks, so you cannot fool them)...and then the discount is pretty small. I deliberately found several items and compared prices at the Best Buy right next door, and the CC stuff was either the same price or more expensive. Fucking crazy. I wanted to scream out "this is why you are going bankrupt, you stupid bitches!"
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schild
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Macy's has gone down hill for so long, and it is certainly not up to par with Nieman Marcus or Nordstroms. Macys can't even do bags properly. And their clothing lines have gone to shit. Also, they can't figure out their target demographic. They carry stuff like Avirex and other notably "hip hop giant clothing bullshit gear" next to Polo and Ralph Lauren (two other brands that haven't advanced in 30 years). They also carry the ghetto lines of Mark Ecko next to the impressively fashion forward Cut & Sew designs. Anyway, they're a fucking mess. They have a nice leather section for coats and such in areas populated with upper middle-class folks. Circuit City has sucked for years. It's not shocking they can't even liquidate properly. Though I suspect they're just biding their time until Black Friday, hoping for a rush and will start liquidating for realz shortly after.
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Nevermore
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Over and out.
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schild
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Spending money to liquidate. That sounds stupider than Mark Jacobs tip-toeing towards the inevitable.
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Righ
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It sounds to me like these stores are closing due to their inability to compete.
They are. All the stores named are rubbish, and few people are going to miss them.
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Merusk
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It sounds to me like these stores are closing due to their inability to compete.
They are. All the stores named are rubbish, and few people are going to miss them. I will miss Home Depot because they carry more construction & large project materials, whereas Lowe's focuses on finishes.
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Oban
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I will miss Home Depot because they carry more construction & large project materials, whereas Lowe's focuses on finishes.
I am guessing that the areas in which the closing Home Depot stores are located are not currently experiencing a significant amount of construction or large scale project activity. The Home Depot near my house in Toronto is always crowded. Also, picked up a few items at the Linens and Things clearance sale, including a new Roomba.
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« Last Edit: November 25, 2008, 10:35:40 AM by Oban »
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Yegolev
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It sounds to me like these stores are closing due to their inability to compete.
They are. All the stores named are rubbish, and few people are going to miss them. Agreed. Culling of the weak. Note that some of those listed are of the "closing a few stores" variety while others are of the "our business model shit itself" variety.
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rattran
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Not like Home Depot is closing more than a tiny fraction of their stores. They've overexpanded into some areas, there's places I go where there are 3 Home Depot stores in near placement. Hell, even where I live there are 2 Home Depots about 7 miles apart. With a Menards within a mile of each, and a Lowes across the street from one.
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HaemishM
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I saw that story on Good Morning America today. Just confirmed what I already knew, that many of these stores are marking up things before the liquidation "sale" prices are ever applied.
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Draegan
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I read somewhere sometime that Best Buy employees made money based on commission and Circuit City got rid of that? This turned into a lazier and less motivated staff of salesmen which turned off customers. Not sure if this is true or not.
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Yegolev
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That would explain why Best Buy employees really want to sell me a TV but don't give two shits if I need batteries.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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I read somewhere sometime that Best Buy employees made money based on commission and Circuit City got rid of that? This turned into a lazier and less motivated staff of salesmen which turned off customers. Not sure if this is true or not.
Uhhhhh no. Best Buy hasn't had commission since before they were Best Buy. Circuit City followed suit when they got their ass stomped to them in their home turf on the east coast. Shortly thereafter, CompUSA dropped it as well - but a little more slowly, first digital cameras didn't get commission and then computers and finally laptops.
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HaemishM
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The only folks who get anything close to sales-based compensation in Best Buy are section managers (like appliance manager, TV manager, etc.) and store managers, and that's only if their department or store goes over their projections for the month/quarter/year.
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schild
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The only folks who get anything close to sales-based compensation in Best Buy are section managers (like appliance manager, TV manager, etc.) and store managers, and that's only if their department or store goes over their projections for the month/quarter/year. Even then, it's really not very good. >_>
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Fabricated
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Let's break this down:
Circuit City - Shit Ann Taylor, Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherines - Shit shit shit and shit. Eddie Bauer - Expensive shit Cache - who? Talbots - Shit J. Jill - who? Pacific Sunwear - Shit GAP - Didn't they actually see their profits go up despite this? Footlocker - Shit Wickes Furniture - Never been Levitz - Shit Bombay - Shit Zales - Shit Whitehall - Never been Piercing Pagoda - Don't care Disney - Shit, glad ours is gone. Home Depot - Out of HOW many stores? Macys - Shit Linens and Things - Shit Movie Gallery - Hahahahah die you fucks. I worked there for a bit over 2 years and it's the shittiest rental chain in existence despite renting porn. Movie rental stores are DEAD. Pep Boys - Out of a billion jillion stores. Sprint/Nextel - Another outfit with a shitload of stores. JC Penney - Hasn't been any good for years. Ethan Allen - Ditto. Wilson Leather - I'll kinda miss these guys actually. Sharper Image - I thought this happened like 4 years ago? We're in the future already, we don't need shit from airplane sales catalogs. K B Toys - Again, I thought they were dead already. Lowes - Another place with a shitload of stores everywhere. Dillard's - Don't know.
The economy sucks and it's depressing to see a lot of people lose their jobs but most of these stores have been doing poorly for years. The economy just delivered the coup de grace.
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schild
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Dillard's was Nordstroms for low and lower middle class folk. Decent clothes at a decent price with some second run name brand stuff like Ecko, Ed Hardy, Affliction, Buffalo, etc. Though Buffalo may have been exclusive to it. Anyway, point being, it's not bad, it's just VERY BADLY RUN and designed by morons.
The stores you said "Who?" to are for middle class white women.
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Fabricated
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Dillard's was Nordstroms for low and lower middle class folk. Decent clothes at a decent price with some second run name brand stuff like Ecko, Ed Hardy, Affliction, Buffalo, etc. Though Buffalo may have been exclusive to it. Anyway, point being, it's not bad, it's just VERY BADLY RUN and designed by morons.
The stores you said "Who?" to are for middle class white women.
I work in an office filled with women who run from college grads to nearly senile and no one goes to the fucking fashion bug, or Talbots. Lane Bryant maybe, Macys/JC Penny definitely, Nordstrom's definitely (not on the list, but just saying), but all of talbots/fashion bugs around here made me kinda sad driving past them since I never saw any cars or people around them ever. It confused me how they even stayed in business. I mean, how do you work at a rung of stores that gets strip mall locations that look inaccessible driving by, if you can even see them at all? I seriously have a kind of awful feeling in my stomach imagining working a register at Talbots, jumping up excitedly whenever the 3rd customer of the day walks in to look at stuff and not buy anything. Maybe they're just one of those store chains that's super popular in really specific regions? Meanwhile, stores I hadn't heard of until they came to my city (Gordman's, Famous Footwear, etc) are doing really well here.
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schild
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Dillards is where JC Penny isn't.
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sigil
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We used to have two Dillards and a Penny's here. One dillards was leveled and a sams club rose from the ashes.
The linen's and things here closed down years ago. I did get a twenty dollar robosapien from it though.
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Nerf
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Isn't talbots a fat chick store? I swear I remember that about them from working in the mall days.
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schild
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Nope, just an overpriced unstylish store for women.
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Strazos
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I'm only sad to be seeing thousands of people losing their jobs....and where will they go?
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