Posted on 01/12/2017 10:05:30 AM PST by blam
I did say “organized boycotts.”
Write them again and suggest Chris Plante
The local L. L. Bean store here in Maine used to have a number of catalogs for men’s clothing, women’s clothing, children’s clothing, camping, fishing, etc. Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer catalogs.
A few years ago they stopped carrying them. When I asked, they said they don’t have them anymore.
Maybe it’s just my local store that stopped carrying them, or maybe they only send them outside of Maine. Who knows.
I wish they still offered them in my local area.
private mail me if you find something I have a 10 buck gift card ready to expire I ll send you the numbers
My mom has ordered from their catalog since I was a kid, she’s 84. They’d be foolish to drop the print catalog in it’s entirety just yet. There are many, many more just like her. I’ve shown her the website, and how to use it. There are even products on the site that aren’t in a given catalog. But, she’s unaccustomed and needs to do it the way she’s always done it. They did remove the mail-in order form, though. She has to call it in, which is to her an annoyance. Me, I get annoyed having to write a paper check or trying to find a postage stamp. Generational differences.
We can do it too.
Since I last posted to you, my sister informed me that L.L. Bean discontinued giving out the catalogs in their stores, but they are still available by mail. Until today, I didn’t know that.
I can see the upside of using the web site. The web site can be updated in minutes or hours, whereas a catalog would take weeks or months to update.
Many people, like your mom, like to thumb through a mail order catalog rather than logging on to a web site. As you said, it’s probably a generational thing.
Here in Maine, a forester told me that the wood pulp market right now is dead, because not many people are subscribing to newspapers anymore and the printing of magazines and mail order catalogs is way down. End result: a lack of demand for wood pulp.
Years ago, I visited the L.L. Bean Store in Freeport, Maine.
Their Freeport store is MUCH larger than their other stores, and there are glass cases on display which show the antique fishing gear, hunting gear, and other outdoor items that were once owned by L.L. Bean. Really cool to look at it. It’s on display, but of course, not for sale.
Freeport is the flagship store. They get a lot of spillover from the big outlet centers in Kittery, too.
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