Who goes to GAP? The most booooring store on earth. Overpriced boring clothes.
Let’s all go to the mall and hang out with ferals
I went to a mall for the first time in ages the past two days to pick up some winter shirts at Macy’s. The place was absolutely DEAD both days. The first day I was there around lunch time; the next day (for a pickup) was around 5 PM. There wasn’t enough traffic or sales to pay for the labor behind the counter, much less the inventory, real estate, utilities, and insurance. It was really eerie.
JC Penney is in the mall I went to and I thought to myself “Are they still around?”
I walked by a Tesla store at the mall in Natick, Mass. They had three cars in the store. Seemed strange.
Yep. No need to burn a bunch of gas going all over when you know what you want and can simply have it delivered in a day or two.
Everything is moving online. I think that customization is another trend, and all of this stuff is off the rack.
Smaller retailers who know how to offer a great customer experience are still thriving. But almost by definition, retail chains large enough to afford major mall rents and national advertising campaigns are not going to be able to offer anything beyond a minimal level of customer service. It’s no surprise these dinosaurs are succumbing to the twin meteorites of Amazon and Alibaba.
We had girlfriends working at Wendy’s who had money to shop there. But these days the 15 dollars an hour wage killed their jobs.
Well this makes me sad. Penney’s is the go-to for window treatments, though they’re otherwise no better than any other department store.
I’m partial to pretty things so I shop VS a lot, but they’re pricey. My mother mocks them without mercy. “Victorious Secretions, home of the fifty-dollar wedgie...I had to walk all the way to Bergdorf’s to blow money like that.”
Never been to a Gap, since I know they don’t stock my size zero. Not many places do. :(
Payless has a good selection and reasonable prices.
In 10 years we’ll see photos of malls and we will have the same feeling then as we now get seeing drive-up burger stands with rollerskater chicks delivering malts and burgers on trays.
Malls are hang-outs for urban yoots looking to make trouble:
Gangsta playpens.
Same with a lot of movie theaters, too, maybe.
The public square has been defouled by liberal policies
When it comes to clothing I want to try stuff on.
Sizes vary, and fits are something you can’t really tell until you have it on.
Colors in photos don’t remain the same when they hit your front door either.
Unfortunately not true for everyone. Some people need to try on before they buy. Whoever can come up with a way to "try on" clothes online will be the next Bezos and will drive the last nail into the retail coffin. Until then stores that sell clothing have a purpose.
I haven’t been to a mall in 25 years at least. I used to (and still do now and again) pop into Walmart for some items. Clothes and everything else I need get ordered online. It’s often cheaper and saves a LOT of aggravation.
While these overpriced stores dry up, Walmart will thrive...at least up here it does.
That horrible Trump, no doubt.
Orange man bad for economy.
I bet Athleta is doing fine. Awesome stuff that lasts very well. A Gap Brand.
The mall is a dying business model. It’s being killed by online shopping. Just as the mall killed the central business district. Cyclical, man. Like Mark Twain said “ history does not repeat itself. It does, however sometimes rhyme “.
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Stores that once were the darlings of the young and cool tend to age with their generation. Vicky’s secret is now a middle aged store and the young look elsewhere to be cool
Well, when multiple generations were convinced “why try”, the girls dress like truckers so there’s no need for Vickies Secret.
While online is certainly a factor, the reason for the store closings is exuberant estimations of growth.
Those projections are in part the result of real estate developers opening new centers that are not economically justified