My store's closing this week! We got told 8 weeks ago or so, after we had the largest RPL I can recall. We had bare shelves everywhere, since at least a couple of publishers refused to have their stuff in the liquidation sale.
There are 3 closing in California this month: Westwood/West L.A., Thousand Oaks, and Santa Barbara. I'd be amazed if Bmart made it through the year. Corporate just asked for extensions of credit from their vendors.
It's very, very, very bad. Stores have been close to empty for a long while.
For Whom The Bell TollszerohereticJanuary 3 2011, 01:02:27 UTC
About an hour ago the Wall Street Journal reported that a distributor's response to the delayed (or impossible) payment is that they are cutting off all deliveries. That can't be good, especially since the stock is already down 22% at .90 and will surely take a fresh beating tomorrow from this news.
I was in bmart the Saturday before Christmas and there was no one in there, no one being run up for anything at all - it was depressing and definitely did not leave me with the feeling that I'd be seeing the store open in a few months.
They're definitely closing more and more stores, I was sad when they closed the Wayne store, even though I hadn't been there for a while.
Plinkett is hilarious. What I enjoy is the sound and thoroughly researched arguments about why something sucked. I can't imagine the hours of video and sound editing that go into each episode.
It is sad. There are B&Ns sprinkled around, but I never cared for their selection, layout, or vibe. I had a Borders preference, dang it. I can't imagine shopping at one after this. Things have changed so much.
XD I should have known you'd heard his stuff! My husband also made comment about all the work that has to go into each ep. He did an audio podcast for awhile, no frills, but it took a good deal of time for him to get sound levels right and what-not. I'm really impressed at how well Plinkett's stuff is produced/engineered/whatever the right term is.
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There are 3 closing in California this month: Westwood/West L.A., Thousand Oaks, and Santa Barbara. I'd be amazed if Bmart made it through the year. Corporate just asked for extensions of credit from their vendors.
It's very, very, very bad. Stores have been close to empty for a long while.
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I used to work Special Orders. There were so many publishers and suppliers who'd only take a Visa or Mastercard from Bmart.
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Plinkett is hilarious. What I enjoy is the sound and thoroughly researched arguments about why something sucked. I can't imagine the hours of video and sound editing that go into each episode.
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XD I should have known you'd heard his stuff! My husband also made comment about all the work that has to go into each ep. He did an audio podcast for awhile, no frills, but it took a good deal of time for him to get sound levels right and what-not. I'm really impressed at how well Plinkett's stuff is produced/engineered/whatever the right term is.
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