Posted on 03/19/2016 11:06:31 AM PDT by PROCON
The grim reaper is on a shopping binge.
The number of shuttered stores this year is already outpacing last year’s rate — and showing no signs of slowing down.
Last week, Men’s Wearhouse said it will close a whopping 250 stores, while Sports Authority filed for bankruptcy and announced plans to close 140 stores earlier this month.
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Even when I lived in the burbs before MrT5 and I got work out here, I avoided the big boxes except when I could not get something anyplace else-the mall I avoided altogether once I no longer had a kid at home...
The nearest big boxes are a WalMart and a Home Depot almost 40 miles away in a town of 6000 in the next county-I’ve been there twice in the past year-I buy my work stuff from Home Depot online...
I have a wide foot, triple EEE, a designation that few people even recognize anymore and I also have an extremely high arch. I used to be able to buy shoes in any little one horse town and get a good fit but now I can only buy sneakers or work shoes locally and I have a hard time with that. If I want to buy a pair of dress shoes I have to order online and hope that I can get some that fit. I recently spent most of a day combing local stores and finally gave up. Even when I find a pair they usually are only good for a short while and then they come apart before they show any signs of wear. I recently threw away a pair of Wolverine shoes with “oil resistant” soles because the soles crumbled before the uppers showed any wear to speak of. In the old days a pair of dress shoes would last me for years and I wore them every day then because I had a suit and tie job. Sales people are no help, I can go in a store that sells nothing BUT shoes and the help knows far less about shoes than I do.
Under the current system if everyone loses a forty hour a week job at $25. an hour and great benefits and takes a twenty hour a week job at $9.25 an hour with no benefits there is no change in the unemployment rate.
That makes sense; thanks again!
I’m sorry to hear that; it stinks to lose those businesses. Thank God online shopping is an option!
Actually if you watched Janet Yellen’s testimony last week, it’s REAGAN’s fault, not W. Bush.
That store was not part of a chain-it was the only one-the location was eventually sold to the Bass Pro Shops chain, and that is what is there now-we get their sales mailers out here sometimes-their stores are a lot fancier than most of the other stores of that type, and they are too expensive for me...
It’s like the glory days of Sears & Roebuck except you place your order on a computer rather than mailing it in. You can’t buy a gun and have it sent in the mail now though, or a flamethrower or a lot of other things I can’t think of at the moment.
I see; again, I’m sorry it closed.
I agree with everything you wrote, but I don’t blame the situation on the Obama economy. It reflects a trend going back to the pre-Internet era. My mid-size town (130,000) has only one old-style shoe store where someone who knows what they are doing will actually match your feet to a shoe. But even that store would likely not have a EEE in stock for the length you need and the style you want.
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