Another one Bites the Dust

[AlienCraft]

From Market Watch @WSJ
Heard this on the radio on the wy home.
Going to go stock up on stuff now.

 

[jpeyton]

Mervyn's still exists?

They closed up shop in my state a while ago.

 

[techs]

wtf's a Mervyns?
Oh, its a big department store on the west coast and southeast.

 

[Zorba]

They closed in Tulsa like 5 or 6 years ago.

Mervyns is where I learned about super padded bra's when I was like 10

 

[midway]

I didn't know mervyn's still existed, to be honest.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: midway
I didn't know mervyn's still existed, to be honest.

I'm not having a whole lot of difficulty figuring out why the went bankrupt.

 

[Deeko]

hmmm

 

[OrByte]

one of the original big boxes here in california.

Bad thing about this is now I can think of 3 or 4 soon to be big empty department stores just in time for the winter freeze!

maybe we can throw some cots in them and convert them over to homeless shelters.

/shrug

Lord knows we have sooooo many homeless in Sactown... :roll:

 

[sactoking]

This article may have been published today, but Mervyn's declared their BK and started liquidating weeks ago.

 

[umbrella39]

The one in Dearborn has been vacent for years.

 

[nageov3t]

never even heard of them before.

 

[dmcowen674]

This may be the last Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
This may be the last Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.

Oh, noes!
The FoxNews Thanksgiving Parade?
Hosted by Sean Hannity and Karl Rove!

 

[ProfJohn]

I think they were doomed once Target got rid of them.

The old style big box stores don't work anymore. Look at the troubles K-Mart and Sears are having.

 

[BoomerD]

Mervyn's has been floundering for quite a while. As PJ noted above, once Dayton-Hudson (Target) dumped them, they were doomed to fold.

As for K-Mart, anyone remember them filing bankruptcy a few years ago? Not only did they survive, they came out of bankruptcy and bought Sears. (and Sears has gone down in quality ever since IMO) The Sears repairmen who come work on our Kenmore appliances say that things have gotten far worse than people realize as far as overall product quality is concerned.
We stopped buying Kenmore-branded appliances 5 years ago.

 

[EagleKeeper]

There is a store about 2 blocks down from the hotel.

they have been holding "Going Out of Business" sales for the past three months.

Yet they are also hanging banners out for Hiring new people.

My suspicions are that some stores are being closed, merchandise sold off and/or shipped to other stores that are healthy.

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Mervyn's still exists?

They closed up shop in my state a while ago.

same here...

 

[Craig234]

Mervyn's is/was headquarted in my city down the road.

 

[Zorba]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
As for K-Mart, anyone remember them filing bankruptcy a few years ago? Not only did they survive, they came out of bankruptcy and bought Sears. (and Sears has gone down in quality ever since IMO) The Sears repairmen who come work on our Kenmore appliances say that things have gotten far worse than people realize as far as overall product quality is concerned.
We stopped buying Kenmore-branded appliances 5 years ago.

Sears have been going down hill since the take over, although the local ones seem to be trying harder lately. K-marts are just horrible.

Kenmores are just rebandaged Whirl-Pools, I doubt Sears is ordering them to be cheaper than the Whirl-Pools.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Zorba

Originally posted by: BoomerD
As for K-Mart, anyone remember them filing bankruptcy a few years ago? Not only did they survive, they came out of bankruptcy and bought Sears. (and Sears has gone down in quality ever since IMO) The Sears repairmen who come work on our Kenmore appliances say that things have gotten far worse than people realize as far as overall product quality is concerned.
We stopped buying Kenmore-branded appliances 5 years ago.

Sears have been going down hill since the take over, although the local ones seem to be trying harder lately. K-marts are just horrible.

Kenmores are just rebandaged Whirl-Pools, I doubt Sears is ordering them to be cheaper than the Whirl-Pools.

Not all Kenmore appliances are Whirlpool anymore. they're outsourced to the lowest bidder, or to the bidder who will include the "extra features" Sears wants in their machines at the "right price."

Once upon a time, all Kenmore appliances were built by Whirlpool and they were among the best you could get...not anymore.