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Owlofcreamcheese posted:close outside of winter? Like you mean they do close in winter or don't close? Sorry I hosed up my sentence. I mean I've never seen a DQ close seasonally, like they're just any other fast food place around here.
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DrNutt posted:Sorry I hosed up my sentence. I mean I've never seen a DQ close seasonally, like they're just any other fast food place around here. A bunch of the original franchises in rural Minnesota shutdown during winter. They tend to be located by parks, swimming pools and baseball fields. Once the summer is over foot traffic drops and there is no reason to keep it open.
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Remulak posted:I knew a dude that owned a summer-only dq. Worked 14/7 from memorial to Labor Day, then spent the rest of the year high as poo poo in Florida fishing all day. Yeah, I worked for one in high school that stayed open winters, but only did hot dogs for hot food, in the upper midwest. Mostly just sold cakes all winter, but it was a great gig for a student who didn't mind making a buck over minimum wage to serve six customers all day and do homework in between. Their profit margins in the summer are amazing, though.
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Beastie posted:I walked by a Barnes and Noble today that had some signage in their window that presented them as #1 in the most trusted brands. Well there aren't a lot of B&M bookstore brands out there. Being #1 of three or whatever isn't that much of an accomplishment.
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withak posted:Well there aren't a lot of B&M bookstore brands out there. Being #1 of three or whatever isn't that much of an accomplishment. Amazon was number 2. I guess if you have zero clue what books to get your 11 year old niece it would make sense to just walk into an actual book store and ask. That's what ate up my time most. Being a personal shopper for some lady with a list of names. That and searching for "That book that is blue and it was on NPR/Fox News this morning." One time someone asked if we had "those books with all the words in it."
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I offered her a dictionary and she said "No the other one, a theosauraus"
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So, J.C. Penney reported another quarter of bad results ($164 million loss) with a 5.4% comparative sales drop, which, not shockingly, led to the stock to plummet to $1.04 to start the day. But, the weird Mr. Market part, was that it ended the day up at $1.36. Truly, the Free Market knows best... 
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BrandorKP posted:David's Bridal is bankrupt. Millenials strike again!
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This article is not shocking, suggesting that the retailers with the biggest risk of having (another) bad holiday season are Sears, J.C. Penney, Neiman Marcus, Hudson's Bay and Barnes & Noble.
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BrandorKP posted:David's Bridal is bankrupt. Thriftshops, local cleaners and desperate cupcake bakeries strike again.
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I've definitely noticed an attempt for B&N to branch out what they're selling in recent times. Besides a coffee shop and of course books, they usually have a board game section (a good selection too, best variety you'll find short of a specialized gaming store), toys/model kits/funko pop/etc section, card/party games, an ebook reader area, music (sometimes including vinyl), and then a general "gifts/stuff" area (fancy gift cards, tchotchkes, pens, etc). I don't know if diversifying like that will be enough to save them, but it's nice to see & fun to browse.StealthArcher posted:On the other hand, I've only seen one DQ go out of business. QuarkJets posted:In college we had a fat gay guy in our social group and one time he introduced himself as The Dairy Queen
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They've always done music, and at least out here, were a good source for 'world music' stuff back before it was a click away on Amazon.
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Zero_Grade posted:I've definitely noticed an attempt for B&N to branch out what they're selling in recent times. Besides a coffee shop and of course books, they usually have a board game section (a good selection too, best variety you'll find short of a specialized gaming store), toys/model kits/funko pop/etc section, card/party games, an ebook reader area, music (sometimes including vinyl), and then a general "gifts/stuff" area (fancy gift cards, tchotchkes, pens, etc). I don't know if diversifying like that will be enough to save them, but it's nice to see & fun to browse. 
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OhFunny posted:https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1065035847626645504?s=19 I would assume that Old Navy does enough sales for them to support Gap through a transition. Gap Inc is Zapados, Banana Republic, ON, and some women's fitness outlet. I could see them lopping off some of those other brands before they even consider shelving Gap.
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Horseshoe theory posted:This article is not shocking, suggesting that the retailers with the biggest risk of having (another) bad holiday season are Sears, J.C. Penney, Neiman Marcus, Hudson's Bay and Barnes & Noble. Sears is already bankrupt, it can't really get much worse for them.
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Gap seems like it has a brand beyond it's physical stores and if at some point they said 'we are an online store now" or that they sell their clothes at some other store I think everyone would go 'yeah okay" and not really blink. Them owning physical stores at malls seems pretty minor to them being what they are at this point.
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Zero_Grade posted:I've definitely noticed an attempt for B&N to branch out what they're selling in recent times. Besides a coffee shop and of course books, they usually have a board game section (a good selection too, best variety you'll find short of a specialized gaming store), toys/model kits/funko pop/etc section, card/party games, an ebook reader area, music (sometimes including vinyl), and then a general "gifts/stuff" area (fancy gift cards, tchotchkes, pens, etc). I don't know if diversifying like that will be enough to save them, but it's nice to see & fun to browse. I'm not going to lie, it was rather fun browsing through a redesigned B&N, and yeah their boardgame selection was rather good.
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Solkanar512 posted:I'm not going to lie, it was rather fun browsing through a redesigned B&N, and yeah their boardgame selection was rather good. If you didn't buy anything then it was all for naught. From my experience 80% of people are there to buy one specific thing. It's either a book from the best seller list, or a calendar. I used to restock the games and toys section and it was always just moving things, never actually replacing items that were bought. B&N's biggest problem isn't foot traffic. It's attachment rate. So many people come in the store to buy 1 specific thing and leave. Or they ask help finding something, take a pic of the ISBN, and order it off of Amazon. It's why their holiday campaign is literally "Please ask our expert booksellers how to buy a gift for your 10 year old nephew that you know is a reader, but you are not a reader."
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Beastie posted:If you didn't buy anything then it was all for naught. From my experience 80% of people are there to buy one specific thing. It's either a book from the best seller list, or a calendar. That's fair. I was traveling, but I did notice that the gunpla kits were somewhat expensive. But I'll certainly go there again when I hadn't walked into a B&N once for a decade.
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To be clear, I'm in no way chastising you for browsing. Browsing is fine. It's the chucklefucks that ask for help in finding 5 different travel books on Spain, go to the cafe, read them for an hour and leave. Travel, Crafts, and Cookbooks were the biggest victim of this and it is a huge time sink. People treat the place like a library all the time. Someone once called to ask for the phone number for the pizza place across town. The employees are too busy chasing down poo poo for people that have no intention of buying. Edit: So this isn't completely "Former Retail Woes" I'll give my opinion on how B&N could turn it around. You stock less books. Gut a shitload of the sections. Reduce your total store inventory by something like 50%. You cut magazines down to 10 or so per category, not the 30-40 they have now. Either that or ditch magazines completely. The stores spend so much of their payroll on stocking books into sections that only sell an average of 15 unique titles, yet the section has 500 unique titles. That or do some sneaky poo poo where you stock book #1 and #3, but not #2. That way people will have to order #2 from you, and they'll end up buying 3 right then and there because why not? Beastie fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Nov 21, 2018 |
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Force customers of B&N to run "The Gauntlet". To reach the registers and buy a book, they must carry a container on their head and run through two parallel lines of employees throwing refrigerator magnets, keychains, miniature figurines, pocket-sized puzzles, nasty candy, wacky pens, and all the other worthless crap they already seem to want you to buy more than books. Anything that lands in the container, the customer must purchase. Presumably these items will be stocking stuffer gifts for a wall-eyed nephew, or birthday presents for a coworker who takes loud smelly dumps and forgets to flush. If the customer makes it to the register without anything landing in the container, they will be allowed to buy their book and only their book. However, they must sign up for a store credit card. Teriyaki Hairpiece fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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Beastie posted:To be clear, I'm in no way chastising you for browsing. Browsing is fine. This is a sound strategy. The only B&N I've been to recently is like 3 stories. I really doubt they move all the poo poo in there. Inventory is dead cash. They should probably downsize and be more like an upscale airport/train station bookstore. Only stuff that really moves. Maybe have same day delivery to store or something.
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The B&N in my neighborhood is tied to a local college, with the bottom floor being a normal bookstore open to the public, and the second selling textbooks, school supplies, etc, and that seems to be working out alright for them. I don't go in that often (there's a cool independent book and record shop, this rad place, and a public library in the area as well, and I usually try to hit them up first), but I'm still kinda glad it's there.
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skooma512 posted:This is a sound strategy. The only B&N I've been to recently is like 3 stories. I really doubt they move all the poo poo in there. Inventory is dead cash. B&N-esqe bookstore I worked at 80% of our unsold stock would get returned and refunded.
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Hand Row posted:Gap has high debt but it’s nowhere near an anchor. JCrew is actually in death status and Gap might actually capture some of those customers from them and other doomed apparel companies. J Crew seems like kinda a weird one, they have some very nice looking and decently fitting stuff and I like them, but always seems way too expensive for what it is. I much prefer to go to Uniqlo or H&M Same thing with banana republic, I guess they try to exude more upscaleness with a price tag that most people can’t afford and those that can just shop at actual upscale stuff? Idk It’s maybe too late but if they could get their prices down (and it’s all Indonesian sweatshop poo poo already being made for peanuts) then maybe they can turn around and get more sales?
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FCKGW posted:https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1065276435705864192?s=21 My city used to have a mid-sized Ikea when I was a kid and it was insanely popular but it got shut down out of some corporate mandate dictating minimum store size, and they've said my city is too small ever since to get a new one. I don't really need ikea, but it would be nice to see the smaller stores return.
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poo poo I’d be happy with a local ikea that only carried the home goods stuff. I find myself wanting x or y non-furniture ikea good from time to time but it’s never worth the hassle of going to Ikea.
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eyebeem posted:poo poo I’d be happy with a local ikea that only carried the home goods stuff. I find myself wanting x or y non-furniture ikea good from time to time but it’s never worth the hassle of going to Ikea. Problem with that is that all the under-costed poo poo that Ikea sells is there to get you to buy furniture.
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Xaris posted:J Crew seems like kinda a weird one, they have some very nice looking and decently fitting stuff and I like them, but always seems way too expensive for what it is. I much prefer to go to Uniqlo or H&M JCrew are running into the same thing that hosed Toys R Us, leveraged buyout from private equity. Then don’t have the money to invest when you have brand identity problems. Also not sure if it’s completely true, but at the brand I work at J Crew is the go to example for a discounting vortex. They are desperate for sales to save the company so they do 40% deals. Now your customers won’t buy unless it’s 40. You want more customers, so you do 45 off. Now you reset the expectation and so on. And you are now getting sales with barely any margin.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:The ikea near me has its own sign on the freeway exit that says "IKEA COMMERCIAL TOURIST DISTRICT" as if it's a local attraction. For all I know it is. I do believe the signage for the Elizabeth Marine Terminal on the Turnpike has a mention of Ikea on it. That's pretty mind blowing if I'm remembering correctly considering...just how massive the Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal is.
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