Comments on: Jasmine Sola: Rip Her To Shreds

By: danroman

danroman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:18:30 +0000

It’s so sad to see all these places closing. Sad to say but alot of things contribute to it (finacially and poltically). The article Chip linked to is right, some chains that have what people want will somewhat survive and the chains that are specialty only will either fall or become much smaller.

By: Chip

Chip — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:09:35 +0000

Here is another article I found in my local paper. With the loss of Wilson’s. Eddie Bauer, Successories, and a long dead Fannie Mae, the Bergner;s wing in Eastland Mall is looking a little barren now adays. If Old Navy leaves, it will be almost vacant.

http://pantagraph.com/articles/2008/03/17/money/doc47de0b22e17ee256598059.txt

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:26:33 +0000

I wouldn’t say that. Most of the ones blame the government and some are ones saying Kmart should go out of business. Except a few posts, like Tuesday Morning or some malls in Cinncinatti (the Mills mall and Tri-County).

By: AceJay

AceJay — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:00:36 +0000

Here’s some more about Closing stores:

http://money.aol.com/special/retail-stores-closing-doors

That discussion board looks like a Labelscar Jr.

By: mallguy

mallguy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:34:28 +0000

Brooks Brothers actually has entered the women’s fashion market. The 3 recently new/renovated stores in NJ (Short Hills, Bridgewater, The Grove at Shrewsbury) all have women’s departments larger than the ones in the older stores.

By: Steven Swain

Steven Swain — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:24:38 +0000

Brooks Brothers and Brooks Fashions were not related.

By: Matt from WI

Matt from WI — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:08:23 +0000

Speaking of mens apparel retailers branching out into womens apparel, I’ve been curious for a long time about Brooks Bros. There were once a chain of women’s apparel stores called Brooks Fashions that lasted probably up through 1993-1994. Any relation there, or were they always seperate chains?

That one’s always boggled me.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:52:43 +0000

Talbot’s Men’s seems like it would be a stretch. I can’t think of any good examples of women’s retail brands that successfully bridged into the men’s market, although men’s wear & shoe retailers often have done okay going in the other direction.

By: Jamie B

Jamie B — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:26:41 +0000

I did not even know Talbots had men’s and kid’s store??? I would have liked to see what kind of merchandise they had. Chainstorage.com said they only had 12 mens stores. That is hardly enough to put a dent in the market to let people know you have the brand out there.

I wonder how many Reuhl No 925 stores will abercrombie open? The only way I found out about Reuhl was on wikipedia! They do no advertising that I have ever seen for the Reuhl brand. And they need to really expand the stores if they want the brand to last. Either do that or lower the prices. They are pretty pricey. If they put at least one store in every state that has at least one metropolitan area of 1 million people, that would put a lot of stores out there. That is what Talbots should have done with the mens brand.

By: mallguy

mallguy — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:16:03 +0000

Not surprised that Talbot’s is closing their Men’s Divison…they really didn’t expand it out to give it a chance (not even in the NY/NJ Market…closest one is King of Prussia).

Apparently Eddie Bauer is facing more problems. They closed a lot of locations when their parent company, Spegiel, went out of business and tried to stay relevant (they had huge locations in Menlo Park and a 2 level location in Garden State Plaza during their better days). Unfortunately, a few more locations in NJ are closing. Too bad..I always liked EB.

With the closing of Bombay, space will be available in a lot of strong NJ malls and it will be interesting to see what takes its place.