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Actually, Birmingham has better shopping than New Orleans. It has the only Saks Fifth Avenue in Alabama, for starters.
Louisiana’s only Saks Fifth Ave is in New Orleans on Canal Street. Also, Magazine Street has lots of shops and boutiques. NOLA is better for that type of shopping than Birmingham. Birmingham has better generic shopping in malls than NOLA does though.
Louisiana’s only Saks Fifth Ave is in New Orleans on Canal Street. Also, Magazine Street has lots of shops and boutiques. NOLA is better for that type of shopping than Birmingham. Birmingham has better generic shopping in malls than NOLA does though.
New Orleans has more high end shopping and boutiques but both are head and shoulders above Memphis in this aspect. I wouldn't be surprised if IKEA closes their Memphis store. Birmingham has great shopping considering it's size.
While IKEA would never admit that the sales are that poor unless it were to actually close the store, it did cut the hours of its Memphis store, something it's never had to do before in the US. The official statement is it's "to better serve the needs of local customers." Right.
It was a colossal blunder for IKEA to open a store in Memphis, although I'm sure the $millions it got from the desperate city were too much to pass up.
While IKEA would never admit that the sales are that poor unless it were to actually close the store, it did cut the hours of its Memphis store, something it's never had to do before in the US. The official statement is it's "to better serve the needs of local customers." Right.
It was a colossal blunder for IKEA to open a store in Memphis, although I'm sure the $millions it got from the desperate city were too much to pass up.
While IKEA would never admit that the sales are that poor unless it were to actually close the store, it did cut the hours of its Memphis store, something it's never had to do before in the US. The official statement is it's "to better serve the needs of local customers." Right.
It was a colossal blunder for IKEA to open a store in Memphis, although I'm sure the $millions it got from the desperate city were too much to pass up.
Memphis doesn't do retail well at all. Too many of the stores like Macys, Dillards, Nordstrom Rack and even DSW tend to water down their Memphis stores. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the economics. I am surprised the IKEA store isn't a hit in the Memphis market.
The Mississippi counties in that metro area are mostly growing due to the fact that Memphis itself is plagued with the same issues as Jackson, only on a much bigger scale and people are leaving the city for the farther out suburbs. However, the metro as a whole isn’t attracting people from around the country or the world to the degree that Nashville is. Memphis historically has only been a favored destination for people from the Delta region/North Mississippi and never made a concerted effort to really draw people in from a wider net in terms of its economy. As usual, you delude yourself into thinking that Mississippi is going to catch up with the rest of the South in the foreseeable future when stats prove otherwise.
While IKEA would never admit that the sales are that poor unless it were to actually close the store, it did cut the hours of its Memphis store, something it's never had to do before in the US. The official statement is it's "to better serve the needs of local customers." Right.
It was a colossal blunder for IKEA to open a store in Memphis, although I'm sure the $millions it got from the desperate city were too much to pass up.
I was surprised they opened their Tennessee store in Memphis--they should've chosen Nashville--or even Knoxville--to debut in Tennessee.
Memphis is a somewhat isolated city and metro from other major population density and centers, and the 1.4 million metro is spread out across a pretty wide, not a super dense area. Personally, I don't think Memphis can support an IKEA, so they have to rely on tourist, out of town or interstate shoppers.
Plus, the Memphis area per capita income is on the lower side of metros in the US. It ranks 108th in the US, out of 280 surveyed, from 2010.
The Mississippi counties in that metro area are mostly growing due to the fact that Memphis itself is plagued with the same issues as Jackson, only on a much bigger scale and people are leaving the city for the farther out suburbs. However, the metro as a whole isn’t attracting people from around the country or the world to the degree that Nashville is. Memphis historically has only been a favored destination for people from the Delta region/North Mississippi and never made a concerted effort to really draw people in from a wider net in terms of its economy. As usual, you delude yourself into thinking that Mississippi is going to catch up with the rest of the South in the foreseeable future when stats prove otherwise.
While it is true that Memphis has never coordinated a plan to pull people from nationwide in, Memphis is a destination to people from more than the Delta and Mississippi. Specifically, there is generations-long cross flow that Memphis shares with most of Arkansas (beyond the Arkansas Delta), and a pipeline going north to St. Louis and Chicago and the adjacent Illinois and Missouri areas...
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