Posted on 04/20/2018 6:13:02 PM PDT by jfd1776
The original owners/founders who had the smarts died off. Much like what will probably happen with Walmart. Sam Walton knew the business as well as his late son. Walmart is bleeding money in loss of sales due to their computerized inventory and on time delivery to store stocking policy. I've seen things like 10w/30 motor oil not be on the shelf for weeks at a time before. The computer shows it's there and no more is ordered. In some cases they discontinue huge demand items because their system doesn't show it selling but shows it on the shelf. I've asked workers before when they were getting something in. They'd pick up the wand and say it's on the shelf the computer shows ** in stock. Then I'd say OK can you please show me where then? LOL.
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Whenever I fly especially internationally I always wear a coat and tie I am an anachronism I suppose but I feel I get better service. Also, unlike some fellow passengers I don’t like looking like I slept in a dumpster.
The downtown store was really beautiful. Six or seven floors with everything including bicycles. The store for homes was a wondrous place with furniture, fixtures and rugs.
A pair of rugs from this store still grace my mom’s place, nearly ten years after she passed.
To add to your point - you’ve seen the videos of New York/San Francisco streets at the turn of the century...just being ‘out and about’ the vast majority were ‘dressed up’ (men wearing hats, ties, etc.)
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No mention of the minimum wage. Labor costs are a big part of this...
When people very seldom flew, they always wore their best clothes. Look at real old photos from the 20, 30's and 40's of baseball games. All the crowds wore their best clothes and hats were in style.......
Our government killed all of that. Makes me tremble with... patriotism.
Never did get to Wanamakers. And I was on my own before I got to Higbees on Public Square in Cleveland.
And it wasn’t really shopping - we might get a souvenir - it was part of the sightseeing of the legendary.
Hear, hear, Nopardons! Very well said.
I didn't say anything at all about a beard! I referred to the scruffy, unkempt, 5 o'clock shadow ( or worse ) look, now so popular with some males. A well kept, nicely trimmed beard is something else completely!
Work clothing is a distinct, quite different thing entirely! Someone doing your the job you once had, in a 3 piece suit, dress shirt, and tie, is just as wrong ( not to mention patently ridiculous and out of placed !), as someone showing up to a square dance in white tie and tails. :-)
LOL...re your Santa stories! They're lovely and you sound like a kind, happy with yourself, courteous, "old school" man.
Not only have I seen those old movies ( thanks to YouTube ), but am old enough to remember when ALL people dressed as well as they could, in the proper attire for what they were doing, and know exactly when that all began to change.
Also, people dressed differently, in "modern times", depending on their ages. Now, many little girls are either dressed like filed hands, or two bit hookers. And many little boys look as though they are about to go to prison/in a perp line-up.
Oh there are exceptions, there always are, to all things; however, todays "exceptions" should be the RULE and vice-a-versa!
Most people were still dressing up to fly, through the 1980s!
OTOH...people began to NOT dress up to see a Broadway show nor to attend an opera, in the early 1970s. They were stared at, in disgust, but sadly, that way of dress soon became common as the 20th century ended. Today, anyone who can afford to shell out $100 and sometimes very much more, to see a lousy play, has more than enough money to at least buy and wear something better than scruffy, stupid looking, what was once considered to be low level work clothes; but most don't!
Thank you VERY much! :-)
My local Wal-Mart has a 65" Hisense HD TV on rollback, for $648, but currently "on order". It has been that way for the last three months. No biggie. I have a 40" one that I am "getting by" with. :-)
It's at the point now that I ask when one will be in just to hear the electronics dept people say there's none on hand. Yesterday the guy told me that they had no 65" in stock and didn't know when they'll come in.
At somr point, I will buy that 65" from some other retailer, and when I do, I will copy that sales receipt and send it to the manager, asking him to forward it to headquarters as a hint as to why their sales are stagnant/dropping.
..the population ages and WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE STUFF....
plus the fact that people do not marry nor have children...
children are almost despised by some....
so why are we surprised...
a vacuum will fill up....which is why so many are racing to to our borders....
I did insist that he not wear camouflage to his father's funeral though...
Sad face. My home town lost a block and half of Main Street downtown — and 41 people — in a gas explosion in 1968. During the rebuild Elder-Beerman came in. It was a bright big city store with *gasp* escalators from the main floor to upstairs. It anchored the downtown reconstruction... sad to see it go.
“Along with Carson’s, we’re likely saying goodbye to Bergner’s, Boston Store, Younkers, Elder-Beerman, and Herberger’s”
First time in my life I’ve ever heard of these stores.
The 50s and 60s (most of the 60s) were a wonderful time. You had a confidence that America had direction, that people were basically good. As a child I felt that Adults looked out for you and the nation. And now?
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