Financial pressures, shenanigans, repositioning, layoffs…
- Sharper Image – I can’t believe it took this long. How many people really need over-priced massage chairs or TVs that cook you breakfast?
- Movie Gallery – Who?
- CompUSA – The Marshalls of computer hardware, software, & accessories.
- Ethan Allen – Doesn’t make me think “quality furniture”; I feel like it’s more of a footwear catalog…with lots of brown & green shoes.
- Sofa Express – Because there aren’t a whole lot of places to buy crappy furniture.
- Levitz – Still using “You’ll Love it at Levitz”…I’m pretty sure that’s almost 30 years old. Do you still hear Gap saying, “Fall into the Gap”?
- Macy’s - Doesn’t count; closing 9 stores this year, but opening 11 to 13 more over the next 2 years.
- PacSun – Too many places to buy this crap.
- Kirkland’s Home – uuhhh
- Fashion Bug, Lane Bryant, & Catherines – Completely disorganized internally.
- Talbots Kids & Men – They have these for kids & men?
- Sigrid Olsen – Resort wear?
- Jasmine Sola – Scandalous! Sexual misconduct taking down a 38 year old upscale women’s clothing retailer. I must find out more…
- Krispy Kreme – Don’t care. None of their stores are easily accessible to me & for that I believe they deserve to suffer.
- Starbucks – This shouldn’t affect me; I can’t see them closing any shops that are in or near well-populated areas…which is where I tend to live.
- 84 Lumber – Rats; now I’ll just have to get my wood from Home Depot or Lowes.
- Home Depot – Was almost worried there for a sec. But, it’s only call centers; doesn’t really count (except for the poor 950 people losing jobs).
- Pep Boys – Laying people off as a strategic plan to change its product mix & add “smaller neighborhood service shops.” I love words & apparently so do most corporations that lay tons of people off while trying not to freak out investors by verbally acknowleding they’re in financial doo-doo.
- Rent-A-Center – Every time I see commercials or think of this place I laugh. Sometimes it’s more like cracking up. Not sure why, but I think it starts with renting this kind of stuff. How is this acceptable? Seriously…quit being so cheap & BUY IT! Is everyone you hang out with cheap, too?
- Rite Aid – CVS is better.
- Sprint Nextel – Losing out to Verizon & AT&T. Whatever. None of those 3 carriers get reception in my apartment (& I refuse to get a land line).
There’s no shortage of news specific to struggling retailers. It will be interesting to see how they adapt through innovation, technology, sound decision making & solid execution.
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