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Old 06-28-2018, 06:12 AM
 
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It's a different world with luggage shopping here in Orlando.
Speaking of....what's with the people I see going up & down OBT pulling their luggage behind them? Who are these people?
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Old 06-28-2018, 06:53 AM
 
Location: South Tampa, Maui, Paris
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It doesn't really matter what's causing retail contraction. The fact is that retail is contracting. And the more it contracts, the more people will turn to e-commerce.



Or Walmart and Target.....

Personally, when I bought toy gifts for child relatives when they were younger , I didn't even think about Toys R Us. It was Target or Walmart.

Party City is looking at opening pop up toy stores alongside their pop up Halloween stores.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...ity/730534002/

A handful of Central Florida Toys R Us locations have been leased to other stores already.
Ashley Furniture wins bid for closing Toys R Us space in Orlando - Orlando Sentinel



The former CEO of Toys R Us is already working on a reboot. Good luck with that though. I remember hearing that Circuit City was going to make a comeback, which hasn't happened yet.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ailer-s-reboot

Brick and mortar is not dead.




It's a different world with luggage shopping here in Orlando.

Nobody is saying brick and mortar is dead, but you just keep repeating that as much as you like. What I am saying is that if more brick and mortar stores close, online shopping will increase.

A perfect example is the luggage. I'm glad that you live in a city with a plethora of luggage stores. I do not. And neither do MOST Americans. For the majority of America, who live in small cities and rural areas, e-commerce is a lifeline.
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Old 06-28-2018, 08:11 AM
 
Location: Flawduh
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Speaking of....what's with the people I see going up & down OBT pulling their luggage behind them? Who are these people?
LOL! Homeless bums and hookers.

As a side note, with brick and mortar losing some ground to online shopping, what's the deal with all of these mattress stores? They're always completely empty with barren parking lots. But every corner has them.
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Old 06-28-2018, 08:40 AM
 
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LOL! Homeless bums and hookers.
With luggage? Not shopping carts?

How odd.
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Old 06-28-2018, 08:59 AM
 
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Nobody is saying brick and mortar is dead, but you just keep repeating that as much as you like. What I am saying is that if more brick and mortar stores close, online shopping will increase.

A perfect example is the luggage. I'm glad that you live in a city with a plethora of luggage stores. I do not. And neither do MOST Americans. For the majority of America, who live in small cities and rural areas, e-commerce is a lifeline.
Shoppers aren't justmoving online as an alternative, they're moving to other physical stores too.

I guess Ross, TJ Maxx, Burlington and Marshall's better up their online game.....oh wait...they're signing leases all over the place. (Only TJ Maxx and Burlington have online stores.) Many of your former JCP and Macy's shoppers are going there and not just switching to online shopping, because they don't have as much money as they used to have to purchase clothes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/08/macy...-shopping.html

Yes. Malls are closing, but there are certain malls that are thriving. Malls where people who have money to spend are spending it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/26/why-...thers-die.html

Orlando lost its lone Nordstrom and Saks 5 Avenue....but gained two Nordstrom Rack and Saks Off 5th each. Macy's is taking their Backstage (clearance) departments and turning them into full-fledge stores. Whole Foods is opening 365 by Whole Foods, which is their response to the popularity of Aldi, which has really beefed up its natural/organic and special diet food offerings and destroying WFM on price.

Again, if everything is moving online, then why are initially online-only retailers either partnering with legacy bricks and mortar stores or opening up their own physical shops? A repeated statement of mine on here that never gets a response...
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Old 06-28-2018, 09:08 AM
 
Location: South Tampa, Maui, Paris
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Shoppers aren't justmoving online as an alternative, they're moving to other physical stores too.

I guess Ross, TJ Maxx, Burlington and Marshall's better up their online game.....oh wait...they're signing leases all over the place. (Only TJ Maxx and Burlington have online stores.) Many of your former JCP and Macy's shoppers are going there and not just switching to online shopping, because they don't have as much money as they used to have to purchase clothes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/08/macy...-shopping.html

Yes. Malls are closing, but there are certain malls that are thriving. Malls where people who have money to spend are spending it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/26/why-...thers-die.html

Orlando lost its lone Nordstrom and Saks 5 Avenue....but gained two Nordstrom Rack and Saks Off 5th each. Macy's is taking their Backstage (clearance) departments and turning them into full-fledge stores. Whole Foods is opening 365 by Whole Foods, which is their response to the popularity of Aldi, which has really beefed up its natural/organic and special diet food offerings and destroying WFM on price.

Again, if everything is moving online, then why are initially online-only retailers either partnering with legacy bricks and mortar stores or opening up their own physical shops? A repeated statement of mine on here that never gets a response...



Yes that is true. Many new physical retail concepts popping up. Weird partnerships. Amazon is opening checkout-less stores. Off-price is doing great (I would never buy luggage at TJ Maxx, sorry)!

But more than 90 million square feet of retail space has already been vacated this year.
That's easily on track to surpass a record 105 million square feet of space shuttered last year.

And both of those numbers eclipse any new retail space that is opening.
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Old 06-28-2018, 11:30 AM
 
Location: South Carolina
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Publix Super Markets has entered into an agreement to acquire Safeway's three Florida stores. The Safeway stores are projected to close in September, then reopen as Publix in the fourth quarter of 2018.

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Old 06-28-2018, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Sunny South Florida
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Publix Super Markets has entered into an agreement to acquire Safeway's three Florida stores.
Wow, we don't usually get a thread with such a "neat and tidy" beginning, middle, and end.
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Old 06-28-2018, 12:04 PM
 
Location: South Tampa, Maui, Paris
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Publix Super Markets has entered into an agreement to acquire Safeway's three Florida stores. The Safeway stores are projected to close in September, then reopen as Publix in the fourth quarter of 2018.

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That is an awesome move by Publix!!!!!!!!

Guess I won't be able to visit that Safeway in Largo.
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Old 06-28-2018, 12:58 PM
 
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Publix Super Markets has entered into an agreement to acquire Safeway's three Florida stores. The Safeway stores are projected to close in September, then reopen as Publix in the fourth quarter of 2018.

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You beat me. I actually swore off City-Data for the rest of the day, then I saw this and had to come back. .



https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay...n-florida.html
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