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Another store spirals down...

Pretty soon all the shopping malls will be converted into assisted living. Then everything you ever wanted will be there from doctors to food stores. Or become some kind of modern art museum.
 
The malls have been going for a while. Sears shuttering two or more stores here in MD before all this started. J C Penney going, going...
 
Never heard of them, but the writing has been on the wall for a while for these big retailers. I never thought the mighty Eatons would fall as it did years ago. Too bad. Maybe a made in China backlash will revitalize this type of shopping somehow, but I doubt it.
 
Both of our malls have been ghost towns for quite a few years now. The small mom and pop strip mall stores seem to be the most popular. Amazon pulls from everybody's inventory. They are just a broker, a middleman. Building lease, salaries and benefits are a large profit killer.
 
Never did care much for mall shopping but miss the Sears hardware store that used to be around the corner. It wasn't in a mall but a strip center. Had a mom and pop stand alone hardware store even closer and went there first then tried Sears next. It's been gone for several years now but it was there when I moved here in 63.
 
Neiman Marcus closed 3 stores in this area months before the virus came around. They are probably trying to use this story to get money from the govt. Why not....everyone else is....
 
Never did care much for mall shopping but miss the Sears hardware store that used to be around the corner. It wasn't in a mall but a strip center. Had a mom and pop stand alone hardware store even closer and went there first then tried Sears next. It's been gone for several years now but it was there when I moved here in 63.
We lost our mom and pop hardware store up the street as well. I tried my best to keep them in business. It was my first stop
 
It won't stop if you can buy on line with little or no tax that the box stores pay. Box stores are just show rooms for Amazon. What next for Amazon, taking over the post office.
 
It won't stop if you can buy on line with little or no tax that the box stores pay. Box stores are just show rooms for Amazon. What next for Amazon, taking over the post office.
Taking over the post office might be a good thing!! Can NEVER get anyone to answer the phone and half the time the PO web site sucks. Was able to use it yesterday but today the only thing it shows me is the priority mailing page.
 
We have done it to ourselves looking for that cheap price and don't want to get off the lazy boy chair. Sad to say it but it's true I have been forcing myself to use mom and pops also paying more for product instead of the cheap and easy. The biggest thing I see is that if we don't stop buying from the big boys there will only be the one big boy left. Then pricing will start going up because of greed.
 
Never bought anything from amazon, every time I looked the price was not lower than what I could get elsewhere, even with the taxes. I think a lot of people don't even shop around anymore they just go there.
 
Taking over the post office might be a good thing!! Can NEVER get anyone to answer the phone and half the time the PO web site sucks. Was able to use it yesterday but today the only thing it shows me is the priority mailing page.
Watch what you ask for. Amazon is big enough now to take over much of all business. You think it's bad now, take away pensions, great pay, benefits and you end up with a guy getting payed 12 to 15 dollars an hour who really doesn't give a ****. Can anyone say monopoly, screw them. I don't buy from them, my family does, they sell junk just like anyone. The big middle man with no loyalty to anyone.
 
NM was one of my wife’s favorite stores. Man are they expensive. They will just reorganize and get rid of their debt. But you do have to wonder about the future of all these malls. What’s going to happen to all these massive structures. I would hate to be in that business these days. Either the stores or the mall ownership.
 
It's such a shame. Who else, really who else had such luxury items in their catalog over the years? Never mind the $6,000 suits that are currently listed, here are some items from past years:
2012 - How about a fancy chicken coop for $100,000? It has its own chandelier for lighting.
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2007 - A used Triton submarine, just $1.44 million. It didn't sell.
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2004 - They did sell a $20,000 suit of armor however.
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2001 - Not only do you get the helicopter, but your company logo is woven into the carpet. At $6,700,000 they did sell one.
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1996 - Someone in Virginia bought this X-Wing replica, priced at just $35,000.
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1959 - With your choice of on the hoof, or in steak form, you got a Black Angus steer with a silver serving cart, priced at $1,925. I don't know what that would be in todays dollars...
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1969 - On the same page as gerbils and corn seeds, how about a $5,000 baby elephant from Thailand.
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2016 brought us the Valkyrie X plane for $1.4 Million. It cost more than the manufacturer's site, but was covered in rose gold.
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Amazon can't take over anyone if nobody buys from them.
Amazon has a huge brick and mortar facility a couple miles from here.
I refuse to business with Bezos and the like.
 
Amazon can't take over anyone if nobody buys from them.
Amazon has a huge brick and mortar facility a couple miles from here.
I refuse to business with Bezos and the like.
My house sat on the buff overlooking the bottoms till the industrial court went in, including Amazon.
 
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