IF it was happening by any natural process liquidators like Big Lots would be the last to go not the first. They'd be selling off the goods of all the other closures. The drug stores closing is concerning because they are driving people directly to Amazon's online clinic services. More centralization=more control over which drugs you are allowed to have.
Good point! You notice it was the onset of the Covid lock-downs that sparked these declining stores. How evil is this Global Cabal system! As Q posts, was this part of the 16 yr plan to destroy America? To compress and centralize for more control over the populaces?
Oh yes it's part of the plan. They have had the details figured out for decades. Remember which stores were following all of the Covid measures IMMEDIATELY? Within hours had their arrows on the floors and plexiglass set up with every rule in place? Which of these stores closing have been analyzed for percent of their inventory being goods of Chinese origin? They mention impacts on cities but I am sitting here in a small town and also seeing HUGE impact when there are no longer any choices of where to shop.
I think their problem is the furniture. It doesn't sell that much, but takes up a lot of floor space. Ollie's has more of the smaller stuff, but our local one is in an out of the way old shopping area that doesn't have the big stores to draw in traffic, such as the former Walmart and Food Lion. Both of those are still empty many years later, except that Harbor Freight is using part of the old Walmart. There's also a Dollar Tree and the UPS store.
Big Lots seems to me to be more like a dollar store these days than a resale outlet. They've changed a lot since they were Pic and Save, then McFrugals, then Big Lots. Every change had more stable stock and less weird stuff. That's not how resale outlets work, it's here today and gone forever tomorrow.
Big Lots, Rite Aid, Bed Bath and Beyond, Party City, Dollar General, Tuesday Morning, CVS, Amazon Go/Fresh, Nordstrom, Best Buy, The Children’s Place, Corner Bakery, Mattress Firm, Kirkland’s, Express.
Tuesday Morning and CVS both closed near me, BB and B is closing, but every single store on this list is a place I could totally never shop at and not miss them at all. Now do Target and Walmart. Their foot traffic is down significantly, I’ve read.
Many of these stores need to die. Dollar General, CVS (the Walmart of drug stores. What a dump), and Best Buy are the worst of the worst and dug their own holes. As much as I'd like to see Target and Walmart disappear, I doubt that it'll happen, although a complete restructuring of their executive suites should occur.
I agree. There was a CVS near me that I could have walked to and I only went there once and never went back. Dollar Gens have always been the dumpiest of dumps. The Target near me went full on commie during the plandemic and I haven’t been back. They all suck, Walmart sucks the most but people don’t have enough options, unfortunately.
All true, and Walmart is probably the biggest reason that those options don't exist. In that, they completely succeeded.
Target and Menard's both went off the deep end; the former with the wokeness bullshit, and the latter with the covid tyranny. I avoid both now.
Other than the prefab buildings that pop up in more rural towns, has there ever been a DG that hasn't been put in an old Burger King, Hardee's, dead strip mall, etc?
CVS might as well become a police station now, with as many calls to break up fights, violent "customers", and other problematic people calls that they get...
A lot of people in my area love Dollar General. They are popping up all over the place here in eastern NC. I got my wife a cell phone a few years ago at Dollar General for $19.99, and it lasted for a few years. Great deal.
Yep. Going the way of Radio Shack (R.I.P.), who made the same mistakes and ventured too far from how they were originally founded. It makes good business sense to evolve with the times, but sometimes it goes way too far...
The Radio Shack in my town turned into a mostly cell phone outlet store. The clerks knew phones, but nothing else. Only a small part of the store had parts, antennas, etc. They used to carry computers, stereos, etc. I bought my first big computer there, a Tandy 3000NL.
My Macy's store in the mall close to my home closed down; now for about 4 yrs! I interviewed for a p-t job at that store just before that and distinctly recall meeting with the store manager and him saying', this is our store, our pride and joy and our employees take much time, effort & care to make sure customers are satisfied. Isn't that ironic that a few short months later the store was slotted for closing? Weird hindsight...
I believe that these business are failing because the bulk of merch they are selling comes from China and the shipments aren't getting through. Thank you President Donald J. Trump. Sole proprietors are the real American way. These corps. need to go.
Now they are targets for DS false flag shooting/stabbing/crime events! And now we hear PNC bank are shutting down ATMs in malls & grocery stores! The whole way we used to do things is shifting, changing!
Video sounds like an ad for big box stores. "Hurry, get yours while supplies last."
Um, yeah, whatever. When the shit-bag criminal pedo Jow is gone from the residency and Trump is back in, then the economy will turn around so fast it'll make your head spin. All new retail stores will emerge. I'm not worried in the least. Keep your box store ad video.
In eastern NC, more and more Dollar General stores are being built.
The local CVS is in a bad neighborhood, and there's a locally owned drug store just a couple blocks away that is doing great. So losing CVS wouldn't be a biggie.
The Big Lots here still seems to be doing well.
My area doesn't have any of the other stores in the video.
True. Dollar General is like Dairy Queen - there is at least one of each in every town in the South. They aren't going anywhere.
CVS won't go anywhere either unfortunately. I absolutely hate them, but I am stuck using them because my drug insurance is CVS Caremark. They are a behemoth - Pharmacy, retail, and an insurer. They suck so much there are a couple drugs I take that are cheaper for me to go elsewhere and use GoodRX because it is cheaper than my normal copay. When you can own the pharmacy and the insurance side you are big enough to influence drug manufacturer's prices. Believe me I want them gone. I'll be gone before they are.
Big Lots should have stayed with buying up excess and bankrupt inventory fallouts. They should have kept their sores simple but wanted to play up their image. CVS is garbage and I'm surprised their pharmacy near me hasn't been shuttered for malpractice. Nordstrom was an overpriced mecca for elite shoppers - - no surprise that it is dying in the Biden economy. Best Buys faces more competition from other markets. Sears went the same route. Dollar Store on the ropes? Wow...what about Dollar General and other like stores? Competition takes no prisoners.
I agree, it was Bill Clinton that opened up the China Market for these Big Box chains to expand. Walmart, Best Buy and so many other retail corporations. Most items made in CHINA. That was back in the early 90s. I remember, the industry went KaBOOM! So there went the Made in the USA industry. It hit/hurt the mom & pop shops/manufacturers the most.
IF it was happening by any natural process liquidators like Big Lots would be the last to go not the first. They'd be selling off the goods of all the other closures. The drug stores closing is concerning because they are driving people directly to Amazon's online clinic services. More centralization=more control over which drugs you are allowed to have.
Good point! You notice it was the onset of the Covid lock-downs that sparked these declining stores. How evil is this Global Cabal system! As Q posts, was this part of the 16 yr plan to destroy America? To compress and centralize for more control over the populaces?
Oh yes it's part of the plan. They have had the details figured out for decades. Remember which stores were following all of the Covid measures IMMEDIATELY? Within hours had their arrows on the floors and plexiglass set up with every rule in place? Which of these stores closing have been analyzed for percent of their inventory being goods of Chinese origin? They mention impacts on cities but I am sitting here in a small town and also seeing HUGE impact when there are no longer any choices of where to shop.
All of this is playing right into Bezo's hands. He's already cornered everything. Its just a matter of shutting others down completely.
I think their problem is the furniture. It doesn't sell that much, but takes up a lot of floor space. Ollie's has more of the smaller stuff, but our local one is in an out of the way old shopping area that doesn't have the big stores to draw in traffic, such as the former Walmart and Food Lion. Both of those are still empty many years later, except that Harbor Freight is using part of the old Walmart. There's also a Dollar Tree and the UPS store.
Big Lots seems to me to be more like a dollar store these days than a resale outlet. They've changed a lot since they were Pic and Save, then McFrugals, then Big Lots. Every change had more stable stock and less weird stuff. That's not how resale outlets work, it's here today and gone forever tomorrow.
Big Lots, Rite Aid, Bed Bath and Beyond, Party City, Dollar General, Tuesday Morning, CVS, Amazon Go/Fresh, Nordstrom, Best Buy, The Children’s Place, Corner Bakery, Mattress Firm, Kirkland’s, Express.
Tuesday Morning and CVS both closed near me, BB and B is closing, but every single store on this list is a place I could totally never shop at and not miss them at all. Now do Target and Walmart. Their foot traffic is down significantly, I’ve read.
Many of these stores need to die. Dollar General, CVS (the Walmart of drug stores. What a dump), and Best Buy are the worst of the worst and dug their own holes. As much as I'd like to see Target and Walmart disappear, I doubt that it'll happen, although a complete restructuring of their executive suites should occur.
I agree. There was a CVS near me that I could have walked to and I only went there once and never went back. Dollar Gens have always been the dumpiest of dumps. The Target near me went full on commie during the plandemic and I haven’t been back. They all suck, Walmart sucks the most but people don’t have enough options, unfortunately.
All true, and Walmart is probably the biggest reason that those options don't exist. In that, they completely succeeded.
Target and Menard's both went off the deep end; the former with the wokeness bullshit, and the latter with the covid tyranny. I avoid both now.
Other than the prefab buildings that pop up in more rural towns, has there ever been a DG that hasn't been put in an old Burger King, Hardee's, dead strip mall, etc?
CVS might as well become a police station now, with as many calls to break up fights, violent "customers", and other problematic people calls that they get...
They built a dollar general in my town, brand new building, you go in there and looks like its already been there for 20 years
A lot of people in my area love Dollar General. They are popping up all over the place here in eastern NC. I got my wife a cell phone a few years ago at Dollar General for $19.99, and it lasted for a few years. Great deal.
Yep. Going the way of Radio Shack (R.I.P.), who made the same mistakes and ventured too far from how they were originally founded. It makes good business sense to evolve with the times, but sometimes it goes way too far...
The Radio Shack in my town turned into a mostly cell phone outlet store. The clerks knew phones, but nothing else. Only a small part of the store had parts, antennas, etc. They used to carry computers, stereos, etc. I bought my first big computer there, a Tandy 3000NL.
My Macy's store in the mall close to my home closed down; now for about 4 yrs! I interviewed for a p-t job at that store just before that and distinctly recall meeting with the store manager and him saying', this is our store, our pride and joy and our employees take much time, effort & care to make sure customers are satisfied. Isn't that ironic that a few short months later the store was slotted for closing? Weird hindsight...
my local Dollar General just completed big remodel --their prices similar to 7-11 no savings
I believe that these business are failing because the bulk of merch they are selling comes from China and the shipments aren't getting through. Thank you President Donald J. Trump. Sole proprietors are the real American way. These corps. need to go.
Bed Bath Beyond is closing in my area… Went there about a year ago and low inventory, crap quality on most products, it’s like they wanted to die.
Same in my area Chicagoland
Only one on the list I’m mildly surprised at is Best Buy
Retail plaza centers are becoming ghost towns
Now they are targets for DS false flag shooting/stabbing/crime events! And now we hear PNC bank are shutting down ATMs in malls & grocery stores! The whole way we used to do things is shifting, changing!
Video sounds like an ad for big box stores. "Hurry, get yours while supplies last."
Um, yeah, whatever. When the shit-bag criminal pedo Jow is gone from the residency and Trump is back in, then the economy will turn around so fast it'll make your head spin. All new retail stores will emerge. I'm not worried in the least. Keep your box store ad video.
Can’t dismiss the impact of the escalating death rate due to the jab resulting in less shoppers
Fear porn
In eastern NC, more and more Dollar General stores are being built.
The local CVS is in a bad neighborhood, and there's a locally owned drug store just a couple blocks away that is doing great. So losing CVS wouldn't be a biggie.
The Big Lots here still seems to be doing well.
My area doesn't have any of the other stores in the video.
True. Dollar General is like Dairy Queen - there is at least one of each in every town in the South. They aren't going anywhere.
CVS won't go anywhere either unfortunately. I absolutely hate them, but I am stuck using them because my drug insurance is CVS Caremark. They are a behemoth - Pharmacy, retail, and an insurer. They suck so much there are a couple drugs I take that are cheaper for me to go elsewhere and use GoodRX because it is cheaper than my normal copay. When you can own the pharmacy and the insurance side you are big enough to influence drug manufacturer's prices. Believe me I want them gone. I'll be gone before they are.
Big Lots should have stayed with buying up excess and bankrupt inventory fallouts. They should have kept their sores simple but wanted to play up their image. CVS is garbage and I'm surprised their pharmacy near me hasn't been shuttered for malpractice. Nordstrom was an overpriced mecca for elite shoppers - - no surprise that it is dying in the Biden economy. Best Buys faces more competition from other markets. Sears went the same route. Dollar Store on the ropes? Wow...what about Dollar General and other like stores? Competition takes no prisoners.
I agree, it was Bill Clinton that opened up the China Market for these Big Box chains to expand. Walmart, Best Buy and so many other retail corporations. Most items made in CHINA. That was back in the early 90s. I remember, the industry went KaBOOM! So there went the Made in the USA industry. It hit/hurt the mom & pop shops/manufacturers the most.
Nixon and Kissinger got us into China. Everyone thought it was a great idea back in the 70s.