Store closings in 2014

Jiro said:
why? cuz of colder weather, beautiful scenery, or...?
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I lived in New Hampshire when I worked in software but moved back to Maine to be closer to family. Plus it was southern New Hampshire and to a redneck like me that's to close to the city :eek3:

I like the north because you can get away from people. I'm a big outdoors type of guy and not much of a social person.
 
jonnyghost said:
I lived in New Hampshire when I worked in software but moved back to Maine to be closer to family. Plus it was southern New Hampshire and to a redneck like me that's to close to the city :eek3:

I like the north because you can get away from people. I'm a big outdoors type of guy and not much of a social person.
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That was why I loved Northern California , I loved living in the woods and there were not a lot people around , just enough so you would not go crazy having no one to talk to.
 
Barnes and Noble closed down in my town.. .another bookstore "Border"... few electronic stores such as Circuit City long before.
 
We have a small book store down town and the only way they could stay open was to add a coffee shop too. We have few new shops and restaurants down town and it will be interesting to see how long they'll last . The library told they have more signing to check out books and movies . People will hang out there to read the newspapers too.
 
I miss the book stores. We had two shut down, now I have to drive 45 minutes to get to one. Kinda says something about society. Booze and junk food 2 minutes away, education and enlightenment 45 :mad:
 
Pretty soon all the malls will be abandoned and become the ghost towns of the 21st century just like the mining towns became ghost towns in the 20th century.
 
jonnyghost said:
I miss the book stores. We had two shut down, now I have to drive 45 minutes to get to one. Kinda says something about society. Booze and junk food 2 minutes away, education and enlightenment 45 :mad:
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We have more places to buy booze and junk food that books in my city too. At least we still our public library, did a lot of reading as teenager b/c I was in the reject class and did not have to do any reading for book reports.
 
shel90 said:
Pretty soon all the malls will be abandoned and become the ghost towns of the 21st century just like the mining towns became ghost towns in the 20th century.
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Probably, except for Tysons Corner Center near your home.
 
shel90 said:
Pretty soon all the malls will be abandoned and become the ghost towns of the 21st century just like the mining towns became ghost towns in the 20th century.
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The mall in town closed down ages ago there's even a cover over the sign next to the road and a "For Sale" sign up. Only one store operates in it and only because it has its own outside entrance door.
 
Some of the stores listed have been bought out or merged with others, such as Office Depot merging with Office Max. Sears and Kmart have been dying a slow death for years and I will be surprised if they don't file for bankruptcy within a few months. They have an idiot at the helm who doesn't understand the market and has no clue as to what he/they need to do to turn it around, I got a good laugh when he said the reason Sears wasn't succeeding was the stores were too big! Now there is someone who doesn't get it! I have told managers for several years at Sears that it's not if they go bankrupt but when. Kmart left are area in the last trip through bankrupcy, but their failure is and was from abandoning what got them their success in the 70's and early 80's and failure to keep pace with their competition(Target/Walmart)if they had stayed the course they probably would be where Walmart is today. Sears holding group also was a key player in sending Orchard Supply Stores into bankruptcy protection a year and a half ago with not knowing how to market themselves against Home Depot and Lowes and destroying a really good hardware store after they took over. They were bought out by Lowes and are still struggling to attract customers. I'm surprised that others on the list are even still in business and most failures can be squarely put on the shoulders of their CEO's who make one mistake after another and/or fail to read the market and place themselves in the middle of it selling what people want at the price people want to pay. Another store that won't surprise me if they close down is Best Buy, just not what they used to be and the stores here don't have many people in them this Christmas. The economy can be humming along, but if you have a store that doesn't sell what the public wants or at a price they are willing to pay then you have some serious problems and the number one problem is not having the people at the top who know what they need to do to turn it around.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Sears and K Mart merge together b/c they both were not doing good . I really hate seeing only a few stores around , so far CVS and Walmart are doing good and I really do not like shopping at a store were you need a map to find your way around. I like to be able to run into a store and buy one or 2 items , I do not want spend half the day there . I know some people do but it does nothing for me.
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Kmart bought Sears Roebuck on November 11, 2004, for 11 billion dollars after Kmart emerged from bankruptcy protection and had a lot of money they needed to get rid of from selling off the land that many of their shuttered stores used to stand on and Sears was on the block. The merger did away with SS Kresge, Kmart corp and Sears Roebuck and they formed Sears Holding Corp.
 
shel90 said:
Pretty soon all the malls will be abandoned and become the ghost towns of the 21st century just like the mining towns became ghost towns in the 20th century.
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If the mall goes away they will have no one to blame but themselves for pricing themselves out of the market. The malls close to me charge a very high footage rate plus 15% of the gross; it's hard to make it when the only one making any money is the owners of the mall. It all boils down to greed kills!
 
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