Posted on 05/03/2015 4:02:11 PM PDT by dennisw
55 Staples. They always seem empty.
lol. They were going to put post offices into them. How dang stupid are people in charge of the Post Office. Keep the Post Office as is because it is fine. In fact besides being required by the Constitution, they will be the only thing left standing because of their incredible requirement of paying for future retirees. Good for them although stupid to put post offices in Stables.
The only brick and mortar stores I shop at now is the local grocery stores, Wal-Mart for food and some DIY building supplies and our local Hardware store, And occasionally Lowes for DIY stuff and Sam's Club for food.
Clothes, computer stuff, ebooks, movies, shoes and all of my gift giving purchases are done online.
And lately more and more of my DIY supplies is getting bought online.
AT least part of what he is saying is just stupid. He sites 400 Office Depot/Office Max store closings without bothering to mention that the merger of the two companies has meant consolidation of stores in areas where there is duplication....That is not necessarily an indicator of a down turn
I give what extra cash to my adult children to help with the grandchildren.
I know many who do because they have it very hard to make ends meat due to jobs.
Excellent observation. Time was, you could literally order a house from the Sears catalog. It was the pre-tech, paper precursor of Amazon before there was an Amazon.
How times change.
“Build A Bear?”
It’s a design your own teddy bear store. My GF’s grand nephew at 5 years old was terrified of the place.
Such is life in the retail biz. As populations shift and change, stores close and new ones open. Except that the “new ones open” part of the equation has been stymied by the Obola economy and the rise of online shopping.
Why should I buy a book at Barnes & Noble when I can get it cheaper (including shipping) on Amazon? Ditto that for many other items, plus gas prices and the ghettoization of many big city malls and you have more and more people shopping by mouse and touch.
Traditional clothes shopping will be the last thing to die out completely other than grocery shopping - too many people have to try on before they buy. Whoever figures out a way to do that online (maybe by a precisely sized model avatar?) will be the next internet billionaire. Once clothing goes, retail is finished (along with a whole crapton of jobs, especially for young people).
I hate to admit it but if Amazon went under I would be lost. I buy all my clothes through them and shoes (though I don't buy clothes or shoes except when the wear our.) Also computer stuff and I get all my ebooks from them for my Kindle/Fire Phone. We have Amzon Prime and watch their movies and listen to all that great music. I even buy seeds for my garden from them with free points from bing rewards and all the other rewards deals that give Amazon gift cards.
I hope they stay in business because I have no idea how to replace all the things they do for me.
Belk is trying to find a buyer, they have over 300 stores in 16 states.
Their biggest problem is they went on a huge buying spree over the past 20 years trying to buy up the competition.
Then they jumped off into wasting millions on totally meaningless promotions like musical contests.
Instead of just keeping their main thing their main thing.
I knew they had jumped the shark when they got involved in the democratic national convention in Charlotte by giving free makeovers to leftist delegates.
In some ways yes but not this one. What you are experiencing is the blurring of boundaries between "drug stores" and "grocery stores" and "dollar stores" and who knows what else. We are well into an era where everybody carries most of everything, but nobody carries absolutely everything. A friend of mine bought some very nice china recently, at a lawn and garden store. They had nice clothes too, although she wasn't there for clothes. You can still buy matches and watchbands, just at a different store.
Not hard to understand at all. Internet sales obviously have a better profit margin than brick and mortar stores can return. If things continue, they may close a bunch of stores as well, while earning good profits.
Actually Millenials are larger then Baby Boomers. We are having tons of kids right now. Will that last? Who knows.
“Good news, 2016 is coming.”
Bad news, Obama is still the POTUS until 20 Jan 2017.
They forgot one store...CVS in Baltimore.
Didn’t think about eBay. Will try them. Staples does deliver at no extra cost and usually the day after we order so we generally wait until we are really low on something. Tried printer ink at one of those places that sells refilled cartridges. Initially was great and saved a lot but the last time we ordered none of the cartridges worked so waste of money.
Baby Boomers are in their 60s and some of them have already died.
I use certain cartridges for my printer. Over $100 apiece at Staples; found three of them (name brand and unopened) for less than $150 on eBay. That included shipping. Office liquidation or whatever. Well worth a search. Happy hunting!
Costco has very good prices on office supplies. Can order on line. Shipping is free or very inexpensive.
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