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Registered: ‎03-11-2010

Re: Kohls Closing 18 Stores!!!

I'm sorry they are closing stores, but the quality of their merchandise has definitely declined.  Used to buy all my summer clothes there.  Last year, I tried on some tops and they were all flimsy.  WHO feels like layering when it's 90 degrees and humid outside?

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Re: Kohls Closing 18 Stores!!!


@Blahblahvampemer wrote:

@MacDUFF wrote:

@mstyrion 1 wrote:

@scotnovel wrote:

@esmeraldagooch wrote:

Not surprised.  Many others are closing too.  Orders are not there and shelves are not filled.

-Wal-Mart is closing 269 stores, including 154 inside the United States.

-K-Mart is closing down more than two dozen stores over the next several months.

-J.C. Penney will be permanently shutting down 47 more stores after closing a total of 40 stores in 2015.

-Macy’s has decided that it needs to shutter 36 stores and lay off approximately 2,500 employees.

-The Gap is in the process of closing 175 stores in North America.

-Aeropostale is in the process of closing 84 stores all across America.

-Finish Line has announced that 150 stores will be shutting down over the next few years.

-Sears has shut down about 600 stores over the past year or so, but sales at the stores that remain open continue to fall precipitously.

But these store closings are only part of the story.

All over the country, shoppers are noticing bare shelves and alarmingly low inventory levels.  This is happening even at the largest and most prominent retailers


Do you have anything to back up this statement?  I've been in a large mall recently and a few other national chain stores and have not seen any bare shelves or low inventory.  Also even the Kmart in my small town has packed shelves.  Friends of mine in Dallas haven't noticed any issues with store inventories either. 


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I would also liketo see some back-up for this statement.

I've seen nothing of the sort in my area and most of the large shopping centers are very busy.

 

 


 

 

The blue underlined numbers/words in esmerelda's post are clickable...has anyone clicked to see if it's an article (or something) to back up the claims?  (I'm one of those who rarely clicks on links.)


Search engines can be your friend.  Research, research, research.


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@Blahblahvampemer, you always crack me up !

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Posts: 3,570
Registered: ‎09-13-2012

Re: Kohls Closing 18 Stores!!!

The two Kohls stores near where I live DESPERATELY need to be redesigned.  They are poorly organized and unappealing.  If they did this, they would have more business.

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Registered: ‎03-09-2010

Re: Kohls Closing 18 Stores!!!

I hope they won't be closing the Kohls near me.  It's been a substitute for Mervyn's which closed about 10 years ago.

Most of the items I buy at Kohl's are name brand, and the same things can be purchased at Macy's...for more $$$.

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Registered: ‎03-15-2014

Re: Kohls Closing 18 Stores!!!

I think this is just normal procedure for underperforming stores.  They can't all be superstars.  Eighteen is a drop in Kohl's bucket.

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Registered: ‎03-10-2010

Re: Kohls Closing 18 Stores!!!


@Noel7 wrote:

@scotnovel wrote:

@esmeraldagooch wrote:

Not surprised.  Many others are closing too.  Orders are not there and shelves are not filled.

-Wal-Mart is closing 269 stores, including 154 inside the United States.

-K-Mart is closing down more than two dozen stores over the next several months.

-J.C. Penney will be permanently shutting down 47 more stores after closing a total of 40 stores in 2015.

-Macy’s has decided that it needs to shutter 36 stores and lay off approximately 2,500 employees.

-The Gap is in the process of closing 175 stores in North America.

-Aeropostale is in the process of closing 84 stores all across America.

-Finish Line has announced that 150 stores will be shutting down over the next few years.

-Sears has shut down about 600 stores over the past year or so, but sales at the stores that remain open continue to fall precipitously.

But these store closings are only part of the story.

All over the country, shoppers are noticing bare shelves and alarmingly low inventory levels.  This is happening even at the largest and most prominent retailers


Do you have anything to back up this statement?  I've been in a large mall recently and a few other national chain stores and have not seen any bare shelves or low inventory.  Also even the Kmart in my small town has packed shelves.  Friends of mine in Dallas haven't noticed any issues with store inventories either. 


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@scotnovel

 

We go through the same false conclusions every time a store closes and/or expands... a certain few trying to make it political.

 

There has been a major change, as you probably know, from old fashioned department stores to buyers switching to Amazon and places like Costco because they are less expensive and less time consuming.  People are now shopping online.

 

Plus the stories that are just false, such as the same person saying the Oreo plants in the US have closed and gone to Mexico.  NOT TRUE.


That is like when people stopped shopping at local hardware stores, downtown department stores, and started going to WalMart.  It is the same thing.  The younger kids don't buy things that my generation bought either: dishes, household items, nice clothing, etc.  They want electronics and leggings.  They all look like bums and have $1,500 worth of electronics in their two little hands. 

 

I don't shop nearly as much, and I buy online a LOT.  I know others do too, because there are lots and lots of delivery trucks out there!

 

Then we don't make much in this country, so there are few jobs.  The energy industry is laying off in droves--so cheap gas is gonna cost us even more money in lost wages and benefits for unemployment etc.  Cheap gas in many ways is finishing off a sluggish economy.

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Re: Kohls Closing 18 Stores!!!


@esmeraldagooch wrote:

Not surprised.  Many others are closing too.  Orders are not there and shelves are not filled.

-Wal-Mart is closing 269 stores, including 154 inside the United States.

-K-Mart is closing down more than two dozen stores over the next several months.

-J.C. Penney will be permanently shutting down 47 more stores after closing a total of 40 stores in 2015.

-Macy’s has decided that it needs to shutter 36 stores and lay off approximately 2,500 employees.

-The Gap is in the process of closing 175 stores in North America.

-Aeropostale is in the process of closing 84 stores all across America.

-Finish Line has announced that 150 stores will be shutting down over the next few years.

-Sears has shut down about 600 stores over the past year or so, but sales at the stores that remain open continue to fall precipitously.

But these store closings are only part of the story.

All over the country, shoppers are noticing bare shelves and alarmingly low inventory levels.  This is happening even at the largest and most prominent retailers


Sports Authority can be added to the list.  I read yesterday that they are either considering bankrupcy or are going to declare bankrupcy.  I can't remember which it was but I know the store closest to us is always empty and there were a few times when I did go in I was the only shopper in there.

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Registered: ‎06-25-2012

Re: Kohls Closing 18 Stores!!!

I surely wouldn't care if they close all the Kohl's stores. Never liked shopping there.

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Re: Kohls Closing 18 Stores!!!

There is some truth, at least in my experience, about low inventory levels.  I have seen this going on for years now in other companies.

 

Kohls had certain departments that I would purchase from but others that I never found had anything I liked enough to buy.  Sometimes the quality of the clothing just wasn't to my liking.

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Registered: ‎01-03-2012

Re: Kohls Closing 18 Stores!!!


@BornToShop wrote:

...and so the saga continues for the demise of the bricks & mortar stores.  What is sad to me is, they are cannibalizing their own companies when they have a website in conjunction as well.  The web prices simply cannot be met & then expect to remain in business for the long term haul.  According to my friend,  It is amazing how customers buy online but return it at the B & M store.  She is sick & tired of hearing Amazon.  So, here we are, sitting at home in our jammys at our computers doing the click n' send thing.  What will all this look like in 10 years, or maybe sooner?!?


It also doesn't help when you go into a store and are treated like trash.  Where did all the good customer service go?  Kind of like the Post Office.  The three super busy Post Offices that I go to only have 2 clerks at anytime.  Could this be because of the competition of my super friendly UPS store or the fact you can buy postage online, or you can send a package back to a store without leaving your home?  I still like to try shoes on at Nordstrom and not fo through the back and forth of retuning them.  That's why I don't buy clothes or shoes on QVC.  I think we will always have brick and Mortar stores.