I will believe the Saudis don't see any upcoming problems with Ghawar when they cancel one of their projects due to low oil prices. If they continue to be full steam ahead with increasing their capacity then I think they are aware that Ghawar may not be as robust in 5 years time as they would like us to believe.
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:37 am Post subject: Store Closings.....
Ann Taylor closing 117 stores nationwide A company spokeswoman said the company hasn't revealed which stores will be shuttered. It will let the stores that will close this fiscal year know over the next month. Plus a lot of others
I have also heard rumors... but havent confirmed that round table pizza is out of business for good. Every single one here in my city has closed.
Anyone still have a round table pizza open in their neck of the woods? _________________ Tired of high gas prices? Then stop driving to work, duh..... Learn to Work from home
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:24 am Post subject: Re: Store Closings.....
Easter last year a new £100million shopping arcade opened in my town. Very swish. Lots of shops selling the same sh1t made in China with different badges on at different prices. Walked round Saturday. 2 closed last week. Thats 4 in 1 year.
We also have an older mall built in the 70's. Around 1/3 of shops allready closed. Seems to be 1 every week.
A new shop just opened, poundland. Everything £1. Also everything made in china. Only shop I saw with que's at the tills.
Retailing in UK has gone mad last few years, the correction was inevitable.
Gasmon _________________ Been there, Done that, Bought the tee-shirt
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: Re: Store Closings.....
Quote:
Anyone still have a round table pizza open in their neck of the woods?
Yes we still have two open here in Fresno, CA.
I have noticed that the strip mall down the street is about 1/2 vacant now. One business after another has been closing up and leaving. _________________ www.ChrisGeigerPhoto.com
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:37 pm Post subject: Re: Store Closings.....
I thought a Strip Mall watch would be interesting - and here one is. OK, I'll keep an eye on my most local strip mall - drugstore, health club, some oriental food shops, deli, bagel place, liquor store, bank, Starbucks, ice cream shop, card shop, organic food and vitamin shop, bakery outlet.
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: Store Closings.....
Waterthrush wrote:
I thought a Strip Mall watch would be interesting - and here one is. OK, I'll keep an eye on my most local strip mall - drugstore, health club, some oriental food shops, deli, bagel place, liquor store, bank, Starbucks, ice cream shop, card shop, organic food and vitamin shop, bakery outlet. What has closed so far: tanning salon.
Glad someone here is brave enough to venture into that crazy place
Some of the things I have seen close locally: Del taco. Thats all I can think of right now besides the round table....
I will ask my wife, she knows a bunch around here, she use to deliver papers to a lot of places. _________________ Tired of high gas prices? Then stop driving to work, duh..... Learn to Work from home
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject: Re: Store Closings.....
Waterthrush wrote:
I thought a Strip Mall watch would be interesting - and here one is. OK, I'll keep an eye on my most local strip mall - drugstore, health club, some oriental food shops, deli, bagel place, liquor store, bank, Starbucks, ice cream shop, card shop, organic food and vitamin shop, bakery outlet. What has closed so far: tanning salon.
Good riddance to it. I never understood paying for a tan?? I go out and do yardwork with nothing on but a pair of shorts, get all the tan I need for free. Well, except for doing the work.
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject: Re: Store Closings.....
HEADER_RACK wrote:
More store closings
More laidoff people
More filings for unemployment
More contraction of the economy
More SHTF
More of life's simple pleasures
You sound like everyone else, more of this, more of that...
Cant you just be happy with what you have _________________ Tired of high gas prices? Then stop driving to work, duh..... Learn to Work from home
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: Store Closings.....
What can I say? I'm a doomer consumer _________________ Nothing is more dangerous than a man with nothing left to lose but has everything left to gain.
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject: Re: Store Closings.....
HEADER_RACK wrote:
What can I say? I'm a doomer consumer
Any newbies on the lookout for a good member handle... _________________ "If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst." — Thomas Hardy
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject: Re: Store Closings.....
btw...
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Round Table Pizza issued a statement to the media today saying that the closures are permanent. And they regret having to exit the Boise market, but said the restaurants were no longer economically viable.
Several factors went into the decision to leave Boise. Among them were a combination of low consumer confidence, driven by high fuel prices and the subprime mortgage crisis, couple with record high commodities prices for items such as cheese and wheat.
Don't see how those factors won't apply to other businesses in other locations as well... _________________ "If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst." — Thomas Hardy
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: Re: Store Closings.....
Aound here in the chicago suburbs countless storefronts and malls have more stores vacant than operational, as well as closed car dealerships, and lots where old buildings were demolished and there is noone to buy the land to build anything new. This is not the in the hood, this is in the affluent dupage county suburbs!
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: Store Closings.....
coyote wrote:
btw...
Quote:
Round Table Pizza issued a statement to the media today saying that the closures are permanent. And they regret having to exit the Boise market, but said the restaurants were no longer economically viable.
Several factors went into the decision to leave Boise. Among them were a combination of low consumer confidence, driven by high fuel prices and the subprime mortgage crisis, couple with record high commodities prices for items such as cheese and wheat.
Yea.... no kidding....
The airline business is going to belly flop...
There is not a single business that will not be effected.
My wife use to drop papers at 200 businesses each week, since about march, each week 2-4 businesses went under.... _________________ Tired of high gas prices? Then stop driving to work, duh..... Learn to Work from home
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