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Old 10-23-2010, 11:49 AM
 
Location: NW Penna.
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I live with an easy drive of Grove City, and I have shopped there off and on since the mid '90s. It surely is not what is used to be. Many of my favorite stores closed, the women's clothing selections, no matter where you shop, are abysmal. And you can't even find a decent dress. (I went back to sewing my own.) Aside from the Kasper ASL and the cooking stores, I can pretty much ignore that whole Grove City outlet now. In the '90s through 2001 or so, I'd go there and spend $100s each time, and come home with gorgeous stuff. The last time I was there, it was time for the spring mdse to be trotted out and the stores were still full of the ugly fall/winter stuff that hadn't sold. I can literally buy better women's attire in the big thrift shops here than I can find in the stores, and it doesn't matter where we shop anymore: It's all the same ugly junk!

No air freshener smells, though. I wonder if they had some roof leaks or something. That place is old enough now for that to start.
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Old 02-02-2011, 04:49 PM
 
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All the fat n happy's will be there. Then people wonder why America is in the state it's in! Inferior products, bad customer service, hey, but at such a bargain!!! I want the old ways, but with the information of today! I'll pay a buck or two extra for a quality product! People who pay $4.00 for a bag of chips, but ***** at $3.oo for milk, won't ever get it.
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:16 AM
 
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no, the reason small stores closs down it because of conveniance. if i can go buy a new dresser, cloths, food, shoes, dog supplies, video games, and a new bike at the same place, where do you think id go?
a) the mall, were it will take 2 hours tops
b) small stores where ill be running around my whole day?

but if i wanted something like gormey(or however you spell it) icecream or antiques, or my car fixed by the guy iv know my whole life, id go to the small town stores. if i wanted All-American-Made products, i would go to the small town onces that say "All-American-Made" like Ralphs Army Surplus in monroeville has alit of American Made coats and stuff. yet id bet my life that out off all the stores at monroeville madd, out of the MILLIONS if items, their is probably about 500 items that are Made in the good old USA.
my case is closed.
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Old 12-04-2011, 05:04 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, USA
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^^^Well said!
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Old 12-04-2011, 08:34 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh PA
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Although this thread is as old as the hills, I will put in my 2 cents. As it stands right now, Pittsburgh mills was overhyped to be much more than it is today. Whenever it opened up there was a nice bowling alley that closed down within a year (if memory serves). Then there was supposed to be a racing course that was never built that turned into the Great Wolf Lodge which I haven't heard much if any news about recently. I agree that the location is one of the reasons that it isn't that successful. From the city, the only way to get there is going up 28 which makes it convenient only to the people who live in the Allegheny Valley. It doesn't even have a Hollister or A&F which even the unimpressive Monroeville and South Hills Village malls have. It could be big, but as of now it seems to be on life support, I was just at Arundel Mills mall this summer near Baltimore MD, and it seems to be lightyears ahead of Pittsburgh Mills
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Old 12-04-2011, 12:20 PM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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What I really miss is Rosie's Pierogies. It was the only reason I went up there in the first place.
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Old 12-04-2011, 02:18 PM
 
Location: Due North of Potemkin City Limits
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I like Pittsburgh mills.
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Old 12-04-2011, 02:58 PM
 
Location: Troy Hill, The Pitt
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First of all, I don't hate it, I enjoy going out there.

Second of all, I get tired of hearing people whinning about smaller stores closing down. They close down only because people stop supporting them. If people are so distraught over this, then don't stop supporting these storers.
Agreed. People complaining about the small stores going under remind me of a particularly annoying coworker who shops at Walmart for EVERYTHING and then complains about all the money "China" got from black friday sales. Same person waited for hours in line to buy a video game on black friday and bragged about threatening to punch some woman in the face if she took their spot?

Its a great idea to support small businesses. Show me a small business that doesn't charge much more than a big box store, and treats their employees better than big box stores do in terms of pay/time off/hours/etc and I'm on board to shop there exclusively. The problem is, and no one wants to acknowledge this, that small businesses tend to exploit their employees and customers to a greater degree than the big box places do.
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Old 12-04-2011, 04:08 PM
 
Location: North Oakland
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small businesses tend to exploit their employees and customers to a greater degree than the big box places do.
Proof, please.
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Old 12-05-2011, 12:31 AM
 
Location: Due North of Potemkin City Limits
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I traveled to Cheswick and see there is a lot of stores closing down because of it. This was suppose to help these areas. I knew it would do the exact opposite. It supports the bland sprawl, and doesn't help anything with the core river towns in this area. The Cheswick theater is about to close down now. It is a nice old theater that is much more classic then a big urban sprawl mega theater. I came back and worked for a firm that designs crap like this. I am putting my pride where it belongs and turning in my two weeks notice. I won't be a part of this crap. I am excepting a job with a firm that does real urban design.
Businesses in Cheswick that are failing, are only doing so because of stupid yinzer owners who are cheap. That town is a moron-infested dump, and it's literally crumbling like some third-world hell hole. Most of the business owners there are too cheap to bother fixing the car-swallowing potholes in their parking lots.

If the Mills is truly ruining small business in Cheswick, please explain the brand new family owned True Value hardware store that just went up there a couple of years ago. See, it isn't the Mills that is blighting Cheswick....It's Cheswick.
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