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Stores Closing...use your gift cards now!
« on: January 05, 2009, 04:20:22 pm »
These stores are about to shutter their doors:

Circuit City stores... most recent (? how many)

 Ann Taylor- 117 stores nationwide are to be shuttered

 Lane Bryant,, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine's to close 150 store nationwide

 Eddie Bauer to close 27 stores and more after January

 Cache will close all stores

 Talbots closing down all stores

 J. Jill closing all stores

 GAP closing 85 stores

 Footlocker closing 140 stores more to close after January
 Wickes Furniture closing down

 Levitz closing down remaining stores

 Bombay closing remaining stores

 Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January.

 Whitehall closing all stores

 Piercing Pagoda closing all stores

 Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.

 Home Depot closing 15 stores 1 in NJ (New Brunswick)

 Macys to close 9 stores after January

 Linens and Things closing all stores

 Movie Galley Closing all stores

 Pacific Sunware closing stores

 Pep Boys Closing 33 stores

 Sprint/ Nextel closing 133 stores

 JC Penney closing a number of stores after January

 Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.

 Wilson Leather closing down all stores

 Sharper Image closing down all stores

 K B Toys closing 356 stores

 Loews to close down some stores

 Dillard's to close some stores



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Re: Stores Closing...use your gift cards now!
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 04:45:45 pm »
I got this as an email a while back, followed by a rebuttal email from someone who had Snopes'd it.  Snopes says this is a mix of accurate and inaccurate info.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/storeclosings.asp

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Re: Stores Closing...use your gift cards now!
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2009, 03:02:30 am »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28482905/

Rainbow Room to close grill, citing economy
Recession and dispute with lease forces grill to temporarily shut down



In this Dec. 17, 1998 file photo, guests at New York's Rainbow Room dance
on the revolving floor of the restaurant and nightclub just before it was
temporarily closed and remodeled.



updated 7:26 p.m. ET, Sat., Jan. 3, 2009

NEW YORK
- The recession has reached the ritzy Rainbow Room, the special-occasion spot that overlooks midtown Manhattan from high above the tourist-attracting Rockefeller Center skating rink.

With business slowing and the lease in dispute, the venue's Italian-themed Rainbow Grill restaurant plans to shutter as of Jan. 12, a spokesman said Saturday. Its bar, banquet space and the weekend dinner-dancing sessions that reflect its glamorous history will continue on the 65th floor.

"It's a very difficult decision to make, given the sort of status of the Rainbow Room as one of these quote-unquote New York City icons," said Ben Branham, a spokesman for the operators, the Cipriani restaurant empire. "The move is made, definitely, as one of protecting the venue."

He said it was unclear how long the restaurant would be closed. During the downturn after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the eatery — where a recent dinner menu ranged from a $28 rice pilaf to a $53 rib-eye steak — shifted to lighter fare for several months.

About 30 to 40 of the Rainbow Room's 120 workers would lose their jobs, said Branham. He didn't have figures on the extent of the slowdown but said there was still demand for the storied establishment.

"People still very much think of the Rainbow Room as a destination for special events and one that evokes a certain New York City charm," he said.

The Rainbow Room has symbolized cosmopolitan elegance since it opened in 1934, during the Great Depression. It is located above NBC's studios at Rockefeller Center, offering Art Deco ambiance and glittering vistas of the city skyline.

Generations of celebrities have performed and partied there. Frank Sinatra once showed up on the same night as Bob Dylan. Famously unruly Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards even donned a tie to see a Marianne Faithfull show there.

The venue's periodic dinner and dancing nights still call for suits and dresses — if not tuxedos and evening gowns — and feature a big-band orchestra.

The Cipriani family, which runs a roster of swank spots including Harry's Bar in Venice, has managed the Rainbow Room since 1998. The Ciprianis asked the city Landmarks Preservation Commission in August to give the Rainbow Room landmark status, amid negotiations over its lease.

The Ciprianis said landlord Tishman Speyer has had the venue appraised as office space worth $8.7 million a year in rent, more than twice the current rate.

A Tishman spokeswoman didn't immediately return a telephone call Saturday, but WNBC-TV reported Friday that a spokesman said the landlord had no plans to convert the space.
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Re: Stores Closing...use your gift cards now!
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2009, 05:32:59 pm »


Here's a scary 'Jimmy Olsen' reportage-type photo, right out of the dark room today:


New York's Henri Bendel, one of the premier shops on Fifth Avenue:


As Jimmy might have said: "Criminy!" (Or "Yikes!" or "Gee Willikers, this is bad!")

No joke at all, actually.

 :P
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Re: Stores Closing...use your gift cards now!
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2009, 05:49:57 pm »
Or as somebody else would say, "Ruh Roh!"
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Re: Stores Closing...use your gift cards now!
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2009, 05:51:36 pm »
OMG  !!!

Dillards is my favorite department store !!!

ACK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :'(


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Re: Stores Closing...use your gift cards now!
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2009, 06:07:09 pm »
OMG  !!!

Dillards is my favorite department store !!!

ACK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :'(


Then, get out there and spend spend spend!!

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Re: Stores Closing...use your gift cards now!
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2009, 06:13:00 pm »
Then, get out there and spend spend spend!!



I did ever the holidays !!!!

I'll go again this weekend !   :laugh:

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Re: Stores Closing...use your gift cards now!
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2009, 06:37:31 pm »

I did ever the holidays !!!!

I'll go again this weekend !   :laugh:


Me too.

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(But maybe not!)

I should get a Plaque of Merit, or something... ::)
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Re: Stores Closing...use your gift cards now!
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2009, 06:54:17 pm »
It's very sad to see this happen. Roughly a quarter of the stores inside our malls around here have either already closed up or are going out of business. Of the remaining three quarters of the mall stores, probably half of them are on very shaky ground. Many of the stores at the strip mall/shopping centers are closing as well. Many stores are also closing in the downtown shopping district. It's very scary. :(

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