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Post by tory on Jan 3, 2020 14:10:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 16:41:10 GMT
It's funny you bring this up. A local toy store, which my grandmother took me to when I was five, and I took my son to, is closing next month. There were lots of reasons for their closing - closing at 6 pm, not selling online, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 16:45:23 GMT
The guy I hire to do videos is a retired IT guy and one of his past jobs was head IT Director at Blockbusters. We were talking on the way to a video shoot and he said he worked there when Netflix came out. Blockbusters management was certain, according to him, that one of their main advantages was the in-store experience. I laughed and told him that they must have never gone to a Blockbuster at 7 pm on a Friday when you could never rent the movie you wanted, and when you did find a movie, the line snaked through the store. In-store experience, my ass.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Jan 3, 2020 16:46:57 GMT
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Post by Crunchy Col on Jan 3, 2020 16:49:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 16:56:50 GMT
We had a Woolworth in my hometown for years and the town over. The one in the town over lasted for years longer than the one in my hometown. My friends and I used to go to the lunch counter every once in awhile to get something to eat.
There are a bunch of regional or local department stores that aren't around anymore - Schneider's, a local one where my mom would bring us to get back-to-school clothes, Levy Bros, a No. Calif. chain and Mervyn's, where I use to go to get clothes for work. I loved Mervyn's.
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Post by loveless on Jan 3, 2020 16:59:18 GMT
The one time I got busted shoplifting. Never did it again.
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Post by nolamike on Jan 3, 2020 18:13:38 GMT
We had a Woolworth in my hometown for years and the town over. The one in the town over lasted for years longer than the one in my hometown. My friends and I used to go to the lunch counter every once in awhile to get something to eat. There are a bunch of regional or local department stores that aren't around anymore - Schneider's, a local one where my mom would bring us to get back-to-school clothes, Levy Bros, a No. Calif. chain and Mervyn's, where I use to go to get clothes for work. I loved Mervyn's. Mervyn's was great! The Texas regional department store that is long-gone is Foley's. We never went there when I was growing up, because it was much fancier than Sears. Regarding Drug Stores, Eckerd's, I guess, is the biggie, but in New Orleans, it was K&B, with their funky purple and white color scheme. They had store brand versions of everything; one friend has been holding on to an unopened bottle of K&B vodka for over two decades now. Not to be confused with another long-gone store with a similar name, Kay-Bee Toys, which seemed to have three locations in every American mall.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Jan 3, 2020 18:14:53 GMT
The one time I got busted shoplifting. Never did it again. What did you take?
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Post by loveless on Jan 3, 2020 18:16:14 GMT
*(hangs head in shame)*
Fucking Wings/McCartney cassettes....
Which were already discounted.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Jan 3, 2020 18:17:57 GMT
cassetteS?
how old were you?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 18:21:11 GMT
We had a Woolworth in my hometown for years and the town over. The one in the town over lasted for years longer than the one in my hometown. My friends and I used to go to the lunch counter every once in awhile to get something to eat. There are a bunch of regional or local department stores that aren't around anymore - Schneider's, a local one where my mom would bring us to get back-to-school clothes, Levy Bros, a No. Calif. chain and Mervyn's, where I use to go to get clothes for work. I loved Mervyn's. Mervyn's was great! The Texas regional department store that is long-gone is Foley's. We never went there when I was growing up, because it was much fancier than Sears. Regarding Drug Stores, Eckerd's, I guess, is the biggie, but in New Orleans, it was K&B, with their funky purple and white color scheme. They had store brand versions of everything; one friend has been holding on to an unopened bottle of K&B vodka for over two decades now. Not to be confused with another long-gone store with a similar name, Kay-Bee Toys, which seemed to have three locations in every American mall. One of my nephews worked in a mall Kay-Bee during the holiday break in high school. He hated every minute of it, but those are the jobs where you just suck it up. The aisles always looked like a bomb hit it.
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Post by loveless on Jan 3, 2020 18:37:58 GMT
cassette S? how old were you? 15, 1985. I'd been shoplifting the High Bias blanks from drugstores (the beloved K&B and Eckerd's that nolamike mentions) for several months prior. Getting grabbed ONCE definitely cured me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 18:58:44 GMT
cassette S? how old were you? 15, 1985. I'd been shoplifting the High Bias blanks from drugstores (the beloved K&B and Eckerd's that nolamike mentions) for several months prior. Getting grabbed ONCE definitely cured me. I went on a shoplifting spree when I was 11 and 12. The most brazen theft was going to the sporting goods store that sponsored my little league team and taking a navy blue baseball cap and then coming back to have them embroider the logo on the front. I stole a comic book from our neighborhood supermarket, but I was stupid and was wearing one of those see-through windbreakers and stuck the comic book in the back of my pants and you could see 2/3rds of the rest of the comic book through my jacket. One of the managers grabbed my shoulder from behind and tried shaming me by telling me my parents shopped there and what would they think. I faked being sorry. In high school, we use to steal basketballs and swap out cheap basketballs for good ones in the retail packages. It was easy to do because the packaging looked like below. The clerks, who were usually teen girls, couldn't tell a good basketball from a cheap one.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 19:29:26 GMT
I used to buy my singles from there quite regularly as a kid.
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