Posted on 01/19/2021 5:11:19 AM PST by Red Badger
Bed Bath & Beyond is in the process of liquidating dozens of stores, as part of its previously announced plans to close roughly 200 locations by 2022.
In July, the company laid out a store closure road map, in a bid to trim its sprawling real estate portfolio and focus on remodeling its more profitable shops and investing in digital.
Bed Bath & Beyond is in the process of liquidating dozens of stores, as part of its previously announced plans to close roughly 200 locations by 2022.
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I quit Amazon. Then they locked me out of my audible library, including downloaded books. Shut off my alexas, too. A substantial amount of money down the drain. Worth it to me, though. I didn’t realize how entangled they were with my life. I feel a little freer now.
Home Depot for one. They delivered my birdseed supply in one day by local car service. Bonus: no cardboard packaging.
Like you I'm sick of ordering something from Amazon only to discover it's total junk. That happens because there are NO BUYERS protecting the reputation of ‘the store’... just vendors hawking stuff...
I want the mix - the advantage of ‘buyers’ and the ease of online shopping. But I'm NOT interested in putting credit information into 50 online ‘stores’ ... so form a Mall guys - take Amazon down.
Well there’s the bed, and the beyond.
I have a credit card with a hard maximum on it. I only use it for online purchases. Personally when this Covid thing is gone I want stores back. Most small business is retail and I want that to continue.
I understand. Over the years, I purchased a few books from them. Then I decided that my soul was worth more to me than the few pennies I saved.
After a couple of more years we sold the store which closed a year after that. You really can't fight Walmart, or Amazon. Made money on the real estate however. Don't begrudge Walmart coming to town, everybody shops there myself included.
I pray it goes bankrupt by the end of the year.
I quit Amazon. Then they locked me out of my audible library, including downloaded books.
That, in a nutshell, is why I don't purchase any streaming products. From anyone. Movies I feel are worth watching are worth buying the DVD/BluRay, so I can watch it again later.
I'm building my library of older releases from the local used-book store (which has quite a collection -- and who finally dumped all their VHS), and from the pawn shops.
Not to mention a good collection of paper friends looking for a forever home.
Make work? UBI? Riots?
Bain Capital the buyer??? Romney
ha ha :)
Online shopping does replicate this - on amazon they check what you have bought and give you “suggestions” like “people who buy X also think of A, B, Y and W”
Yes, I get that, but it’s not like pushing your cart through entire departments.
Stopped in around December to buy a cheese grater to replace my broken one. Two clerks—both hung up with customers with price-check problems or some such. Three other employees wandering around in the check-out area doing everything but checking people out.
Eight people in line. Stood there for five minutes. Nothing changed. Left the grater on the counter and walked out. Wrote an email to them from the address provided on their website. Told what I just told here. Sent it. Got a message back that the address to which I sent my letter was an unmonitored site (why have it then?) Never got a reply. Much like K-Mart—bad customer practices will doom you. Jumping into the political fray against 85,000 voters is also a fairly bad idea IMHO.
For me that’s true as well - I like the brick and mortar “feel”. But that might be different for kids under 40
And everything online means lower prices
I placed the order via My Pillow’s website...
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