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Lord & Taylor Closing |
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Posted by northshore on Tue Jun 5 14:10:51 2018 Lord & Taylor will close its' iconic Fifth Avenue flagship store and 10 branch stores due to poor sales. |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Jun 5 14:19:57 2018, in response to Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by northshore on Tue Jun 5 14:10:51 2018. Yikes. |
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Posted by Joe on Tue Jun 5 17:53:31 2018, in response to Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by northshore on Tue Jun 5 14:10:51 2018. Retail clothing stores have continued to migrate around Manhattan over the decades: Chambers St to Canal to 14th to 34 or 59th. I presume that the residents of Fifth Avenue from 42nd to 59th objected when the stores moved in. Now they are moving on.--- Even the onslaught of online clothing and shoe sales has a precedent, with the introduction of Sears mail order catalog and delivery by Railway Express. --- On the other hand, when you build a subway, it is difficult to move it somewhere else. To me, the lack of shoppers on subways and buses (that is, people carrying merchandise from stores) says to me that the trunk of a car has taken one role the subway used to have. --- Prior to WW2, I think it was common for a lady shopper to go to a midtown store, buy something and have the store's truck deliver it. I vaguely recall Macy's giving up its own truck fleet and calling United Parcel. I also vaguely recall Macy's begging its customers (during the war) to take the package home with themselves. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Wed Jun 6 07:06:03 2018, in response to Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by northshore on Tue Jun 5 14:10:51 2018. Another retail victim of internet shopping ?Bill Newkirk |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jun 6 09:22:30 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Bill Newkirk on Wed Jun 6 07:06:03 2018. Sure looks that way. The retail stores are going the way of Blockbuster Video. I sometimes try to explain to my kids (all born in the 21st century) that when Daddy was 30 years old and I wanted to watch a movie, I had to go someplace called a "video store" to "rent a movie", then go back home, put it into something called a "VCR", watch the movie, and then go back to the "video store" the next day to return the movie.My kids are growing up with movies available on their phones whenever they want them. Even movies on demand by Verizon seem old fashioned to them. |
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Posted by AlM on Wed Jun 6 09:55:45 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jun 6 09:22:30 2018. when Daddy was 30 years old and I wanted to watch a movieHa. When I was 30 and wanted to watch a movie, I had to go to a place called a "movie theater." |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 6 10:05:21 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jun 6 09:22:30 2018. Did you tell them about the need to "be kind, rewind?" |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Wed Jun 6 16:25:38 2018, in response to Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by northshore on Tue Jun 5 14:10:51 2018. The writing on the wall was there, especially after selling their building last year. End of an era. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Wed Jun 6 16:52:40 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by AlM on Wed Jun 6 09:55:45 2018. When I wanted to watch a movie:
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 6 20:41:30 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Jeff Rosen on Wed Jun 6 16:52:40 2018. Yeah. I saw a lot of movies for the first time on Channel 11. Way more than I rented them. Used to tape them too. |
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Posted by Dave on Wed Jun 6 21:10:21 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Jeff Rosen on Wed Jun 6 16:52:40 2018. I remember falling asleep to that music in the early 1960s when my parents watched TV at night. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Thu Jun 7 18:02:03 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jun 6 20:41:30 2018. Million Dollar Movie was on channel 9, not 11. They would show the same movie every night for a week. |
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Posted by northshore on Thu Jun 7 18:12:34 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Jeff Rosen on Wed Jun 6 16:52:40 2018. They must have been awfully low budget films for $1M |
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Posted by 3-9 on Thu Jun 7 18:28:46 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Jeff Rosen on Thu Jun 7 18:02:03 2018. I'm glad the guy still has the old intro up. There was an even older intro, which among other scenes showed a pair of escalators, but nobody saved that. |
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Posted by Fred G on Thu Jun 7 18:33:35 2018, in response to Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by northshore on Tue Jun 5 14:10:51 2018. This is the Amazon and Walmart era of retail. Expect sears to go under pretty soon as well |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jun 7 18:36:13 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Fred G on Thu Jun 7 18:33:35 2018. Pretty sad.People actually do their grocery shopping at Walmart Supercenter. We live in a consumerist society. |
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Posted by northshore on Thu Jun 7 19:05:49 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jun 7 18:36:13 2018. Soon people will be ordering their Whole Food groceries online through Amazon. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jun 7 19:15:46 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by northshore on Thu Jun 7 19:05:49 2018. Would you order food on Amazon?I went to Whole Foods yesterday and Amazon logo is everywhere. Cashier asks if you're a Prime member. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jun 7 19:15:46 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by northshore on Thu Jun 7 19:05:49 2018. Would you order food on Amazon?I went to Whole Foods yesterday and Amazon logo is everywhere. Cashier asks if you're a Prime member. |
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Posted by Dave on Thu Jun 7 19:40:25 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Fred G on Thu Jun 7 18:33:35 2018. I'm surprised Sears has lasted this long. I found out yesterday when a Dish TV technician came to my house to service my refrigerator (I have an extended warranty from Sears). He explained that a few months ago, Sears fired all of their technicians and signed a contract with Dish (which is losing customers) to handle appliance maintenance. The tech was given one - repeat, one - day of training for ALL brands of refrigerators sold by Sears.Needless to say, this guy knew almost nothing and in the process of doing the service, sheared the head off a bolt used to raise/lower the casters so the frig can be slid away from the wall. He also didn't have all the tools he needed to do the service - I had to lend him some of mine! |
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Posted by Fred G on Thu Jun 7 20:00:48 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Dave on Thu Jun 7 19:40:25 2018. Interesting you bring that up because here they’ve been using a repair company called ABC and they’re just as bad. |
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Posted by Fred G on Thu Jun 7 20:02:42 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jun 7 18:36:13 2018. Walmart has really competitive prices for groceries. |
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Posted by Fred G on Thu Jun 7 20:05:02 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by 3-9 on Thu Jun 7 18:28:46 2018. The oldest one I remember was just a graphic no video clip or anything |
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Posted by Fred G on Thu Jun 7 20:07:11 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jun 7 19:15:46 2018. I would order canned goods or bulk stuff. |
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Posted by FtGreeneG on Thu Jun 7 20:11:59 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Fred G on Thu Jun 7 18:33:35 2018. Yup and dollar stores. It seems main streets and malls will be things of the past at this rate... kinda sad imo. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jun 7 20:17:41 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jun 7 18:36:13 2018. Was wondering what kind of hijack you'd pull this time. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Jun 7 21:22:11 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Jeff Rosen on Thu Jun 7 18:02:03 2018. I saw the caption. But I wasn't around back then. I was talking about when Channel 11 was "New York's Movie Station." It's related to your post because that's also how people watched movies back then, not just the video store. |
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Posted by Dave on Thu Jun 7 22:33:22 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Fred G on Thu Jun 7 20:00:48 2018. I hope like hell nothing goes seriously wrong with my kitchen appliances because I have no faith in the Dish service tech fixing them properly. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jun 7 22:36:06 2018, in response to Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by northshore on Tue Jun 5 14:10:51 2018. More victims of De Blasio politics. |
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Posted by Fred G on Thu Jun 7 22:54:30 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Dave on Thu Jun 7 22:33:22 2018. I found a good local guy who gives a shit and does great work and never looked back on Sears and their ABC operation. |
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Posted by jimmymc25 on Fri Jun 8 05:08:33 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Dave on Thu Jun 7 22:33:22 2018. Damm that's sad.Sears used to be so great....everything was so reliable. |
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Posted by jimmymc25 on Fri Jun 8 05:10:13 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by FtGreeneG on Thu Jun 7 20:11:59 2018. Very sad. |
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Posted by Dave on Fri Jun 8 09:22:24 2018, in response to Re: Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by Fred G on Thu Jun 7 22:54:30 2018. We have those too but I still have 3 years left on my warranties. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Aug 18 12:35:54 2025, in response to Lord & Taylor Closing, posted by northshore on Tue Jun 5 14:10:51 2018. Sounds like a Rosa headline. |
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