I receive their catalogue and have purchased a number of nice, quality items from them over the years.
Thanks, Obama...another one of your hopey-changy things up the creek.
Leni
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Very funny!. :-)
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I have a lot of nice stuff from them. My daughter worked for them and I lived near Sandpoint, so could take advantage of the yearly clearance PLUS employee discount. I’ll be first in line for the closeout sale in May.
As for the management, they did a lot of things right until they didn’t. Factions and infighting among employees didn’t help; and apparently the owner/founder couldn’t listen to good advice from industry pros.
This happens in many businesses. They start out with a good idea, have early success, then don’t know what to do when the market or economy changes…BUT they think they do know. They succeeded once, so that makes them business gurus. NOT. In the case of CC, they went up the scale instead of holding to midrange prices, also opened their own little boutiquey stores in expensive areas. Had they stayed with well-made woodsy, Idaho-ish, countryish styles and midrange prices they might have gone on as a very successful catalog sales outfit.
“The company employs about 6,000 people and operates 334 retail stores, 31 factory outlet stores and seven day-spa locations.”
That’s 6,000 people that will now vote Republican.