Community Chat

[Trailrun23]

There was one of their stores here a few years ago...it opened and closed in less than a year. I shopped their a few times but it was such a hodgepodge of things it was hard to really know what they had.

[Trailrun23]

I hope World Market doesn't close....I go there to buy the gingersnaps for everyone at Christmas.

[goldensrbest]

We have one in my area,use to buy items for grand daughter's when they were small,but have not shopped there for years, girls are teens.

[pateacher]

Sad news!  We don't have a Christmas Tree Shop in our area, but I enjoyed visiting one in the Rehoboth Delaware outlet during vacations at the beach.

[Greeneyedlady21]

My Mom loved that store and she would always buy certain things there, like gift bags. They did seem to lose their way and become too "junky".

[Cakers3]

@JaneMarple  How sad. I still have some items I bought years ago. 

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[sunshine45]

my favorite CHRISTMAS TREE SHOP is in the rehoboth beach tanger outlets. i am in there fairly often because i could just spend hours in there. i never leave empty handed. hoping they can recover following their bankruptcy filing and not have to close.

we also have an AND THAT store in rehoboth beach. someone mentioned that they were related to CHRISTMAS TREE SHOP?  i never realized that.

[bikerbabe]

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@Greeneyedlady21 wrote:
My Mom loved that store and she would always buy certain things there, like gift bags. They did seem to lose their way and become too "junky".

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That is my complaint with so many retailers that are having financial problems or have already gone bankrupt:  JUNK

I can't speak to the Christmas Tree Shop, they aren't around here, but so many stores that I shopped years ago started buying junk. I stopped shopping there. 

Sears

Macy's (whoever is the buyer at my local store)

JCP

Kohl's .....

I am willing to pay more for quality merchandise, but I am not interested in more low quality junk. Surely, I'm not the only consumer who feels the same. 

[Enufstuff]

@bikerbabe   Same here regarding the poor quality of merchandise available.

        Our lovely Jordan Marsh department store, went downhill

after Macy's took over.

         Customer service was never the same either. There were

no longer sales staff or an open checkout register in each department. There would be one register open and one clerk to cover 4 departments.

         Some of the brands sold there, faded away, like Jones New York and Liz Claiborne. There are only a couple of brands that I purchase from Macy's now.

        I mostly buy online from Macy's, but going into the store

maybe twice a year, I see cheap thin fabrics that never would

have been sold by Jordan Marsh. Most of it ends up on racks and racks for clearance. It looks like a junk shop.

       Since most of the manufacturing is done overseas now, the

offerings are sadly, poor quality. It is only about the profits, not

producing quality products anymore.

      The same thing happened to BB&B, when then no longer carried high quality well known brands and brought in cheap and shoddy products.

      It is true that more people shop online, but I think that the

CEO's should realize that many people would pay a little more

and go to the stores, if they offered the well known and quality

products that were offered in the past and that many prefer.

[Magicrat]

@bikerbabe Or Midwest. Never heard of them either.