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Department store apocalypse is taking its toll on NYC
The New York Post ^
| July 14, 2018
| Steve Cuozzo
Posted on 07/16/2018 8:22:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
For political reasons, Hudson Bay Company just dumped Ivanka's women's clothing line. Hudson's Bay Company is a sinking ship.
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:34:38 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I remember walking down 5th Ave. a week before Christmas back in the late '80s. The storefronts of all the departments stores were decorated and beautiful. It is a shame that that era has passed.
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:52:10 PM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Never heard of them we shop at Walmart, pull your pants up leftists.
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posted on
07/16/2018 8:53:15 PM PDT
by
Joe Miner
(u)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wanamaker's in downtown Philly was a fascinating place as late as the 70s, complete with a ginormous theater pipe organ beat heard in the luncheon room on the eighth floor. Sic transit gloria.
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:06:43 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So many grand old stores going, going, gone. The times they are changing, and really not for the best, but then I’m way older than so many who don’t really care.
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:06:57 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: chajin
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:07:26 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: Joe Miner
** Never heard of them we shop at Walmart, pull your pants up leftists. ** Lord & Taylor is on walmart.com 😉
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:12:54 PM PDT
by
sockmonkey
(I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:13:36 PM PDT
by
setha
(England: Once great, now lost to the Diversity Deviants & Mohammedans.)
To: setha
Good catch! Yep. The Trump Curse.
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:17:45 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
To: rockinqsranch
[So many grand old stores going, going, gone. The times they are changing]
The PC 2nd and 3rd generation heirs are largely responsible for the demise of the grand old stores.
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:20:42 PM PDT
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm( 32:12)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Online shopping claims more victims. It’s far cheaper and easier to sit at home and open the mail than it is to drive to some distant location, walk for hours, and battle crowds. Their business model simply doesn’t have the market share it once had. If they didn’t see it coming, and adjust accordingly, then they deserve to lose even more market share. We express our preferences with our dollars. Period.
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:25:09 PM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Teacher317
Thing i hate about online shopping...you dont see or feel the product. As a simple example...i ordered some cargo pants....but the product with exact same name had changed...the fabric was much thinner in heft...there were less stitches
You dont know the fit and finish...and when you order the product you dont know if that particular manufacturing run was a good one. If product is not good....it is a hassle to return...
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:40:51 PM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
To: Getready
Amazon is moving to a business model where you can try things on in a ‘showroom’ or where a wardrobe consultant will make a housecall to push certain product lines and styles at you.
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posted on
07/16/2018 9:54:12 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I sew my own clothes except for Walmart jeans.
All I know about Lord and Taylor is the Boston bombers’ mama liked shoplifting there.
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posted on
07/16/2018 10:04:42 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Joe Miner
I used to go to Lord & Taylor’s elegant stores in NYC, I had to look it up, but it was founded in Manhattan in 1826 - 192 years ago.
There used to be a time that “department stores” were very nice, and were decorated beautifully.
As to Walmart, I’m in Los Angeles my whole life [70 years] - and I’ve never shopped at a Walmart ... and never even seen one. I heard of one here but it was in a very bad part of town, I never had a desire to visit.
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posted on
07/16/2018 10:47:51 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I love Bull Markets!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sq footage rental rates in nyc are outrageous.
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:43:55 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Getready
Well look, there are purchases that are easily made online, and for more important ones, that you care about, you get them at a store.
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:48:39 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wait, he bought a red vinyl jacket? Should we stop reading there?
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posted on
07/17/2018 12:43:16 AM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: 2ndDivisionVet
My hometown city of Pittsburgh used to have several grand old department stores with eight floors in the heart of the Golden Triangle. That was in days when there were no suburban malls and the whole family would drive downtown, park cheap and make a day if it, go to a movie at a downturn theater, eat at the department store restaurant (it was upstairs with a veranda view of the floors below). Or you could eat cheap at Woolworths lunch counter if you wanted to shop the five and ten goods like children’s toys and records. In the early sixties, my family even bought a stereo console downtown, one of those gorgeous floor models everybody had as a centerpiece of their livingroom. You felt safe walking through downtown and people were courteous and friendly.
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posted on
07/17/2018 1:39:58 AM PDT
by
Ciexyz
(I have one issue and it's my economic well-being.)
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