My wife loves (loved) Pier 1. This will make her sad (but I remember hearing they were on thin ice before the pandemic).
I have shopped at Pier One stores for decades. Its been a wonderland of both exotic and practical items for me...... colorful, stylish, unique, well-made items of all sorts. I loved going to their stores just to be there and enjoy myself.
I'm looking right now at 2 twenty-year-old, still like-new, still sharp-looking Pier One wicker chairs with tropical cushions sitting on my sun porch that visitors ooh and aah over. My buffet drawers contain two sets of their one-of-a-kind, unique silverware. An elegant table lamp I bought there years ago draws raves from my guests. I could go on forever as I have many things in my stylish digs that I bought from Pier One stores.
I'm a knowledgeable buyer and I don't buy run-of-the-mill, cheap-crap........and I never found my Pier Ones to be mostly full of cheap-crap like some are claiming here.
Yes, they did have some lower-level, imported stuff, but I even loved to browse and buy interesting things like the cheap-crap, inexpensive, lovely oriental paper fans which I used for some wall decor in one of my guest rooms. They are very eye-catching and fill the bill in the space they are in.
Pier One was always a mecca for interior designer-type folks like me, believe me !
The posters on this thread who are knocking Pier One stores as cheap, cheesy, no-go joints must live in an alternate universe from where I live. I will sorely miss their presence in my shopping world because they were my kind of store !
Leni