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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Aug 12, 2020 15:01:30 GMT
I see a lot of posts on my FB feed about "I just went to Target for a can of coffee and left with $200 worth of xxxxx," and all these other women are all "Girrrrlll, I feel ya!" But my reaction (inside my head of course) is "what the heck did you find at Target worth spending that much money?" I haven't "shopped" at Target for years, and I only go there as a last resort after exhausting all my other sources for the desired item.
I find them overpriced for the quality of items they provide these days. When my girls (26, 21, and 21) were little, I bought a lot of their clothes there, and they were suitable for hand-me-downs when we finished with them. My friend who buy kids clothing there now are lucky to get one season out of a pair of shorts.
I used to shop there for myself when they carried a decent selection of plus-size clothing, and I LOVED the Cherokee brand for its durability and fit. I stopped buying anything for me when they switched to that Mossimo crap (seriously, as a 50 YO+, I do NOT want those low-rider jeans that accent my residual twin-pregnancy stomach flab!) and thought that 5 displays of plus-size clothing was an adequate selection. And yes, I counted! They had 25 racks of maternity wear and only 5 of plus-size.
Target was the first retailer I ditched because I decided they did not value me as a customer. Lane Bryant was next (you specialize in plus-size, but you carry hideous selections!), although I will still buy Cacique bras there. I am not in love with Christopher and Banks because anything "new" each season is usually pretty ugly, but they have pants that fit me very well, and I can't go wrong with their cardigans and t-shirts.
My wardrobe is pretty plain, because I don't buy it unless I love it, and it is hard to "love" what so many designers decide are appropriate for plus-size women.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Aug 12, 2020 15:15:16 GMT
I see a lot of posts on my FB feed about "I just went to Target for a can of coffee and left with $200 worth of xxxxx," and all these other women are all "Girrrrlll, I feel ya!" But my reaction (inside my head of course) is "what the heck did you find at Target worth spending that much money?" I haven't "shopped" at Target for years, and I only go there as a last resort after exhausting all my other sources for the desired item. I find them overpriced for the quality of items they provide these days. When my girls (26, 21, and 21) were little, I bought a lot of their clothes there, and they were suitable for hand-me-downs when we finished with them. My friend who buy kids clothing there now are lucky to get one season out of a pair of shorts. I used to shop there for myself when they carried a decent selection of plus-size clothing, and I LOVED the Cherokee brand for its durability and fit. I stopped buying anything for me when they switched to that Mossimo crap (seriously, as a 50 YO+, I do NOT want those low-rider jeans that accent my residual twin-pregnancy stomach flab!) and thought that 5 displays of plus-size clothing was an adequate selection. And yes, I counted! They had 25 racks of maternity wear and only 5 of plus-size. Target was the first retailer I ditched because I decided they did not value me as a customer. Lane Bryant was next (you specialize in plus-size, but you carry hideous selections!), although I will still buy Cacique bras there. I am not in love with Christopher and Banks because anything "new" each season is usually pretty ugly, but they have pants that fit me very well, and I can't go wrong with their cardigans and t-shirts. My wardrobe is pretty plain, because I don't buy it unless I love it, and it is hard to "love" what so many designers decide are appropriate for plus-size women. I know that target has a plus sized collection now but haven’t looked in there. However, I have gotten a lot of my clothes from target in the last year. Low rise isn’t in style anymore, but when it was, it isn’t surprising that all stores would have that as an option. It might be worth giving it a try again. I don’t personally spend hundreds of dollars there but I could if I wanted to. Between makeup, food, clothes and household items it wouldn’t be that hard.
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Post by epeanymous on Aug 12, 2020 15:18:52 GMT
I haven't walked into a Stein Mart in at least 20 years and I'm surprised they hung around as long as they did. There was one in Columbia when I lived there and it was a complete mystery to me what they were going for with their particular layout and stock. I think I went in twice in five years, and only because it shared a shopping plaza with a grocery store I liked. Also, I actually do buy kids’ clothes at target in the “I don’t need this to last” category — leggings, plain t-shirts, sweatshorts. The couple of times I have seen a dress for my youngest and thought, “oh that looks cute and it is $12, why not,” it has either shrunk or faded (or both) so quickly that $12 was too much.
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Post by spitfiregirl on Aug 12, 2020 15:32:37 GMT
Online shopping is killing the brick and mortar stores. I am doing more and more online shopping lately. The exception is shoes. I need to try on shoes. They don't all fit the same and I don't want to hassle with making returns. Lot of retailers no longer even carry my size shoe (5) in their physical stores. I am left with Nordstrom. If they ever stop selling my size, UGH! I have so many size 5/6 in my store, I want to clearance them. I can give you a good deal on uggs if you ever need any... just message me.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Aug 12, 2020 18:14:24 GMT
Not surprised to see another retail chain going under. The pandemic has just put the nail in the coffin of an already ailing industry IMO. The last time I stepped foot in a Stein Mart was back in the 1990s. Last night I read an interesting article that talks about how the fashion industry (which goes hand in hand with retail) has begun to unravel. A long, but good read. Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed
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Post by uksue on Aug 12, 2020 18:30:45 GMT
If it wasn’t for the loss of jobs which devastates families and communities, I would welcome fewer branches of certain shops and less choice overall . I used to hate to go shopping because of too much choice and the fact there would be three branches of the same shop in my small shopping centre- I would find myself traipsing around all three, instead of accepting they didn’t have an item I was looking for/correct size of something .
It’s tricky, because I know myself and many of my friends and family are going down the minimalist route having found we didn’t miss new ‘stuff’ as much as we thought we would- but of course the economy requires us to spend to recover .
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 12, 2020 18:44:02 GMT
I see a lot of posts on my FB feed about "I just went to Target for a can of coffee and left with $200 worth of xxxxx," and all these other women are all "Girrrrlll, I feel ya!" But my reaction (inside my head of course) is "what the heck did you find at Target worth spending that much money?" I haven't "shopped" at Target for years, and I only go there as a last resort after exhausting all my other sources for the desired item. I find them overpriced for the quality of items they provide these days. When my girls (26, 21, and 21) were little, I bought a lot of their clothes there, and they were suitable for hand-me-downs when we finished with them. My friend who buy kids clothing there now are lucky to get one season out of a pair of shorts. Target is my go-to store after Costco. The stores in my area (Target’s home town of MN) are all clean, organized, bright and all have been recently updated. I don’t find them to be horribly overpriced at all, but I do shop the sales and take advantage of the 5% Redcard discount, the gift card promotions, etc. which also helps me save quite a bit. The Walmart near me is dirty, dim, cluttered and disorganized and I won’t go there. It’s gross. I have to disagree about the kid’s clothes. I buy my kid a lot of Target’s house brand Cat and Jack (which is a fairly recent addition, maybe 5ish years or so?) and they have held up very well for us. I’m not horribly fussy about her laundry either. If stuff is stained I spray it and chuck it into the washer on warm and straight into the dryer week after week and haven’t had problems with things shrinking. I used to resale almost everything my kid outgrew at consignment pop ups which is problematic these days both because of my lack of time and now Covid, but we still pass along almost everything she outgrows now to a friend that is a size or two smaller. The Target clothes are way better quality than what I get from Kohl’s, some of which doesn’t even last a season. I haven’t bought any clothes for myself there in years, mostly because they don’t have the styles or brands I prefer, although I do sometimes pick up socks or underwear from there.
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Post by peasapie on Aug 12, 2020 18:49:03 GMT
And yet Tailored Brands was able to pay out $3.3 million in incentive compensation to executives. Did either TB or Lord & Taylor received the PPP loans? Yes, we always seem to have money to help companies and the wealthy. Because they "take risks". You know who else "takes risks" - the man and woman going to work every day not knowing if their company will be there tomorrow. The folks who decide to have children without knowing if there will be enormous complications or diseases. The people who drive to work and back miles and miles each day to a job that might be outsourced tomorrow, and they might have a car accident. WE ALL TAKE RISKS EVERY F(#$*ING DAY. But the wealthy and companies are molly-coddled and celebrated for their "risk taking". The rest of us are on our own. When do we arrive at our Let Them Eat Cake moment, when enough Americans will care that the money is concentrated at the top?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 18:59:04 GMT
Not surprised to see another retail chain going under. The pandemic has just put the nail in the coffin of an already ailing industry IMO. The last time I stepped foot in a Stein Mart was back in the 1990s. Last night I read an interesting article that talks about how the fashion industry (which goes hand in hand with retail) has begun to unravel. A long, but good read. Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry CollapsedI've said this for years. The advent of athleisure and the torn-everything looks had made it WAY easier to shop thrift or shop downmarket stores. Fast fashion is a cancer too. Too much material. Too much waste. Too much energy and water going into items people wear only a few times. I'm not sad to see the end of it. " It is. It is crazy. And here’s where it got even crazier: In order to protect exclusivity, stores had to commit to even larger buys, ordering more clothes than they could possibly sell. Then, when they couldn’t move the stuff, they’d return it. Thanks to the rise of fast fashion and the luxury market’s simultaneous attempt to keep up with its impossible pace, it all started to feel disposable. So detrimental was the cycle of overproduction and discounting to luxury goods that in 2018, Burberry, the British label, revealed that it had been burning — not metaphorically but literally: burning — $37 million of worth of merchandise per year to maintain “brand value.” ‘I was just a kid in a candy store, waiting for an adult to step into the room and rein it all in.’
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Post by Delta Dawn on Aug 12, 2020 19:11:33 GMT
Not surprised to see another retail chain going under. The pandemic has just put the nail in the coffin of an already ailing industry IMO. The last time I stepped foot in a Stein Mart was back in the 1990s. Last night I read an interesting article that talks about how the fashion industry (which goes hand in hand with retail) has begun to unravel. A long, but good read. Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry CollapsedI've said this for years. The advent of athleisure and the torn-everything looks had made it WAY easier to shop thrift or shop downmarket stores. Fast fashion is a cancer too. Too much material. Too much waste. Too much energy and water going into items people wear only a few times. I'm not sad to see the end of it. " It is. It is crazy. And here’s where it got even crazier: In order to protect exclusivity, stores had to commit to even larger buys, ordering more clothes than they could possibly sell. Then, when they couldn’t move the stuff, they’d return it. Thanks to the rise of fast fashion and the luxury market’s simultaneous attempt to keep up with its impossible pace, it all started to feel disposable. So detrimental was the cycle of overproduction and discounting to luxury goods that in 2018, Burberry, the British label, revealed that it had been burning — not metaphorically but literally: burning — $37 million of worth of merchandise per year to maintain “brand value.” ‘I was just a kid in a candy store, waiting for an adult to step into the room and rein it all in.’ Louis Vuitton does the same thing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2021 6:27:15 GMT
" Disney is closing 20% of its brick-and-mortar Disney Stores before the end of the year as it shifts more focus to its e-commerce business. The company will shutter at least 60 Disney Store locations in North America before evaluating potential closures in other parts of the world. Disney plans to improve its current ShopDisney website and increase its product assortment to include more adult apparel collections, streetwear, premium home products and collectibles. Disney said Wednesday that it will close 20% of its brick-and-mortar Disney Store locations before the end of the year as part of a bigger focus on its e-commerce business. At least 60 of its North American locations will close, the company said, citing changing consumer behaviors and a desire to link its online shopping experience to its Disney Parks apps and social media platforms. There are about 300 Disney Stores worldwide." www.cnbc.com/2021/03/03/disney-shuttering-at-least-20percent-of-disney-stores-as-it-shifts-focus-to-e-commerce.html
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