projected store closures [2009]

[jazmatazz]

sorry i can't provide links, received the message on my work e-mail, which jacks up html. sweeet. if you really want the links to the articles in case you don't believe me or something (pfft, skeptics :P), then i'll provide a link GOOGLE IT, SON
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Recent Store Closing Announcements:
 
 
* Circuit City to close by year's end - Circuit City – 155 stores to be closed nationwide  (a familiar store name, can't say i've ever shopped there though. lol.)

* Ann Taylor Stores To Close 117 Stores, Cut Staff

* Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, Catherine's closing 150 stores (this is surprising, i actually thought that they were doing well enough...)

* 60 Eddie Bauer stores to be closed

* Cache/La Cache closing shop – all stores closed

* Talbots, J. Jill, Sigrid Olsen closing all stores

* Gap Inc. closing 85 stores (woah)

* Foot Locker Closing 250 Stores (THIS i am psyched about. SHOEZ)

* Wickes Furniture is closing after filing bankruptcy

* Zales Closing More Jewelry Stores to Total 105 in 2008

* Piercing Pagoda closing all stores (stores... i guess they're a store...)

* Whitehall Jewelers to close

* Value City to close

*Disney to shutter 98 stores (wut?)
 
* Home Depot closing 15 stores

* Macy's to close 9 stores
 
* Linens 'n Things will close all 317 of its remaining stores in 48 states
 
* Lone Star Steakhouse to close 27 stores

* Movie Gallery closing 520 stores

* Pacific Sunwear to Close Remaining 154 Stores (huh? is this the same as pacsun?)

* Pep Boys to close stores, reduce staff

* Pier 1 Imports closing 25 more stores after shedding 79 stores in 2007

* Friedman's Jewelers closing 473 stores

* Dell Computers is closing 140 retail stores

* 84 Lumber closed 12 stores

*Rite Aid closing 28 stores
 
* Big Dollar closing 10 stores
 
* Sofa Express closed all 44 stores

* Sprint Nextel to cut 4000 jobs, close 125 stores

*J. C. PENNEY PLANS TO CLOSE UP TO 50 MORE STORES
 
* $5.6 million tax lien filed against Ethan Allen

* Wilsons Leather to close 160 mall stores, cut 1000 jobs ...

* Sharper Image Closing All Stores (shame, they had interesting little gadgets)

* KB Toys to close 375 stores, cut 3500 jobs (oh, my childhood. too bad i never got toys when i was a kid xD)
 
* Dillard's will close more stores in 2009

* CompUSA Shutting Down All Stores
 
* CostPlus World Market closing 18 stores

* Lillian Vernon files for bankruptcy, goes out of business

* Mervyns to close remaining 149 stores (i know this hit home gaiz.)

* Mikasa brand for sale; all 86 factory outlet stores to close

* Rent-A-Center Closing 280 Stores Nationwide

* Shoe Pavilion closing all 64 store locations

* Starbucks to Close 600 Stores (and still have 1289812372987328193 left over)
 
* Steve & Barry's Out of Business / Liquidated

* Trans World liquidates 138 stores (Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, Wherehouse Music, f.y.e.)
 
* Discovery Channel Stores closing its 103-store Discovery Channel chain (oh, sad)
 
* Entertainment Solutions, a retailer of high-end electronics, to shutter stores
 
* Sears to close a 19 stores, including 8 Kmarts, 2 Sears mall stores, 1 Sears Grand, 1 Sears Essentials and the remaining 7 Great Indoors stores (and you thought kmart was already extinct)
 
 
 
 
 

Source: USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2008-11-17-gift-cards-cash-block_N.htm

[Kazuko]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT MACY'S ; ; thats like my life force when I cant get to H&M, Forever 21 and Neiman Marcus

well the fashion bug has already closed down here in tracy same with Shoe Pav

As for Gap and Disney well damn...I though they did so well

Im not suprised that VS isnt on there but then again they are closing one store in stockton

[jazmatazz]

inorite? i don't know how well macy's is doing, but they were one of the last stores i'd expected to be out there. what store is in replacement of fashion bug and shoe pav now, btw? they took up hella space in that lil ol' area.

and victoria's secret... i just bought a bra from you guys, that should keep you another three weeks or so, expensive a-holes. lol j/k ilu stephanie =)

[Kazuko]

inorite? i don't know how well macy's is doing, but they were one of the last stores i'd expected to be out there. what store is in replacement of fashion bug and shoe pav now, btw? they took up hella space in that lil ol' area.

and victoria's secret... i just bought a bra from you guys, that should keep you another three weeks or so, expensive a-holes. lol j/k ilu stephanie =)

lol ilu too jaz, i know we are gonna have some bomb beezy sales during black friday or as in work its called PINK friday

I know we are getting a Winco where the linnens and things used to be. As for the other too i dont know >:

[Jun-Watarase]

Wow. That's... just heartsinking.

Mervyn's? Circuit City? CompUSA? I don't shop at these places very often, but the fact that they'll be gone is just... weird. Time to stock up on stockings.

[Kazuko]

like at that one sock store in the hillsdale ;3

anyway whats sad is Sharper image and KB toys are closing, I used to go to KB toys alot as a kid and sharper had all these neat things we got a massage chair from them.

Discovery store...wow I loved going there too especially cause they carried astronaut ice cream and gems my mum is pretty excited for the sales ; ; though man alot of stores are being hit har especially stores that I assumed did well such as Macy's disney, JC Penny and Gap

[Jun-Watarase]

like at that one sock store in the hillsdale ;3

No, not really. I mentioned it because Mervyn's is closing down and I'd actually save money. :U

anyway whats sad is Sharper image and KB toys are closing, I used to go to KB toys alot as a kid and sharper had all these neat things we got a massage chair from them.

Discovery store...wow I loved going there too especially cause they carried astronaut ice cream and gems my mum is pretty excited for the sales ; ; though man alot of stores are being hit har especially stores that I assumed did well such as Macy's disney, JC Penny and Gap

Faaaaaaaawk, those stores are going down too, huh... Sucks. I used to hella play around with stuff in Sharper Image. Most of the KB's around here have been long gone, but you know, it's cool to see a few still around, but I guess.... not anymore. Disney stores? ALL OF the Discovery Channel stores? What is the world coming to?

I'm getting old.

[Mizuki]

You know what it feels like the world is coming to?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_40C0ozToAQ

I'm not kidding either.

[Rei-Rei]

Wow... One of the Ann Taylors that went down was in Sac's Arden Mall... It's now replaced by Armani Exchange...
A lot of stores also reduced its store sizes... I believe there was an entire mall somewhere around the area that went down...
I hope Arden stays up, but I doubt that'll go down anytime soon...

[jazmatazz]

and to think, not only are we losing those stores/products, thousands of people are getting laid off. X_x it's times like these i feel a bit of relief i'm in the service.

but foot locker, seriously though, was a bit of a shocker. i mean to think that nearly all of them if NOT all of them are closing down;  you'd think that they'd at least keep a few stores open in bay, especially with all the sneaker fiends in that area, aha.

[L3sli3_Lov3s_Chu]

Well this certainly helps me to know where NOT to sign up for a job.

How depressing... Stupid economy. -_-;

[Shi_Musouka]

I heard all the Linens and Things stores already closed this summer(I could just be thinking of the California stores, but meh).

The Circuit City closing saddens me though. Better customer service than Frys, yet cheaper than Best Buy >>. I personally don't see the point in having a Sharper Image store since hardly anyone buys from that store. It's only good for window shopping at best.

I find it HECKA FUNNY that there were some new Steve and Barry's stores that just opened up in San Jose/Milipitas recently and now they're closing it up.

And yeah, Pacific Sunwear = PacSun.

Yeap. That's a mighty fine economy alright.

[Kazuko]

oh snaps Pacsun...wow I thought they did well due to the popularity of punk clothing and such D:

; ; whats next sephora closing oh god no the day they do im leaving the country

[Jun-Watarase]

; ; whats next sephora closing oh god no the day they do im leaving the country

uh, no.

[XpHoBiaX]

All we have out here is Walmart and a dollartree.
I was real sad when Mervyns said they were closing...I'd drive an hour to them, just to shop there.

[Sunara Ishi]

Mervyn's? Circuit City? CompUSA? I don't shop at these places very often, but the fact that they'll be gone is just... weird. Time to stock up on stockings.

Well.. CompUSA was already hurting before. They did close all the stores in our area a few years back.

All of this just plain sucks. It is always sad.

[mDuo13]

Mervyn's is the one I'm going to miss. A lot of the rest of these (CompUSA, Sharper Image, Linens 'n Things) are good riddance, and the rest don't seem to be hurting that bad. (What, Macy's is closing 9 stores? That still leaves them tons.)

Still doesn't bode well for the economy, though.

[lyricaldanichan]

I think it was bound to happen.. like there is too many of those stores like there are Starbucks. It isn't really special or exciting to go because they are all the same. I am actually surprise we have stores since a lot of people order stuff online, but then I forget that people need instant grat too :(.

[Stormfalcon]

I think it was bound to happen.. like there is too many of those stores like there are Starbucks. It isn't really special or exciting to go because they are all the same. I am actually surprise we have stores since a lot of people order stuff online, but then I forget that people need instant grat too :(.

That, and it's a lot easier and cheaper to return something if need be.

[astroboy]

I think it was bound to happen.. like there is too many of those stores like there are Starbucks.

Too many stores, where did you get that idea from *sarcasm*