Posted on 04/08/2020 12:54:46 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
I shop at Duluth for a lot of my clothes now. Sturdy clothes that fit true to size (I can actually wear their medium size shirts!).
Big ones are going to bite the dust. The politicians refuse to realize that businesses don’t have an infinite source of money. They must sell product, or close. Only government appears to have an infinite source of money, because it can issue money that has no backing, and continue doing that forever. It causes runaway inflation, but the government will never admit that.
Sears and JC Penny are still around?
I thought they went away like 5 years ago
Why can’t they just die already
Sears, JCPenney, Neiman Marcus, and J. Crew
Gone
and Macy’s is right behind them.
Our local Sears store started having going out of business sales months ago, as part of company downsizing. I think that overall, Sears has been struggling.
Many sales are made through the internet these days. I got an email from one company that I have ordered from, saying that they have to delay shipping orders because they just aren’t ready for the demand these days. Sounded to me like that company could stand to do a little upsizing.
J.C Penny, started a rapid decline when they tried to capture the .2% gay dad customers and they alienated the rest of their god fearing American customers.
I worked for Sears for 26 years. I'm not sorry to see them go.
Had a Sears in the Burlington County Mall, it was the only store left in the entire mall, the mall was a dead mall and the Sears was left. I remember them having a sign, “Sears is still open!” over the battered mall sign down by the highway. I could never figure out, why? But they kept that store open for a few more years until it was closed a couple years ago. Now the entire mall is vacant and nature has been taking over.
I’ve bought jeans and socks from Duluth when they’re on sale.
i have not spent a penny at Macy’s since they dropped Trump’s line.
Also they go overboard gnashing about the queers. No thanks.
So have I. And I stopped shopping there when MO was buying her clothes there.
If my nephew is ever released from his home prison and allowed to work again in Dover, maybe I’ll have to go shopping there with him and family.
Online sales made these brick and mortar stores less desirable except to those who like to touch or try on their products first.
My hope is the vacant buildings find good tenants in certain businesses that need to be visited in person. Tractor Supply comes to mind for many, if not most, of their key products.
I do feel bad for the employees who find themselves unemployed without other jobs available to slip into.
I was watching reruns of the Sci-Fi series ‘Expanse’. In one scene they talk about a standard 30% unemployment rate. In this apparent utopia all jobs are gotten through the state. Apparently utopia is pure communism to the writer(s). One opening could have 6k applicants. Ironically the people living on Mars are all employed and useful. Life is hard for the space belter’s living between earth and mars who do mining but they manage.
How about Coronavirus ‘R’ Us?
I think they had a bad Business Model from the get go.
Who had a bad bus model from the get-go?
Cuz I think 120 years sounds like a pretty good model.
JCP is the only place that I buy my jeans. Arizona brand.
I recall as a kid Sears being our family’s main store for just about anything, and in my case tools, hardware and appliances.
I cannot get over the fact that just plain poor management brought them to their knees. The biggest mail order house in the world could not transition to the internet.
Then to top it off the total fools sold off their best sellers, the biggy being Craftsman, hoping their dead weight would pull them through. Just mindless.
With stupidity like that, they deserve to go under.
>>>Who had a bad bus model from the get-go?<<<
Uh, “Coronavirus ‘R’ Us” It’s a Joke.
(Remember Toys ‘R’ Us?)
I’m amazed Macy’s isn’t on that list...
Yes, it died last year (and it wasn’t clear which you were talking about, since you replied but diverged from the OP). Though it lasted about 50 years, not too bad.
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