A pretty diverese list of stores that are closing down doors--check here!

[Born2Juice4Ever]

It seems there are lots of stores that are closing due to the "recession" and the fact that people are not shopping.

Stores that informed the Security Exchange of closing plans between October 2008 and January 2009.


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 stores 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

Lowes to close down some stores

Dillard's to close some stores.

And two unknown UG Labs :D :D

[Redz]

Here in London the economy doesnt seemed to have slowed so much the housing market is still red hot and there are new stores opening up all over. I guess not everywhere is affected the same way.

[wrought]

Piercing Pagoda..... wtf?

[Seth]

Canada is within the least affected countries so far. Lets hope it stays this way

[Van Zan]

I think I will be going south of the border for some shopping and good deal

[Redz]

I think I will be going south of the border for some shopping and good dealNot so much now our dollar isnt doing great right now.

[Born2Juice4Ever]

I think I will be going south of the border for some shopping and good deal


I don't believe that going down south for "shopping deals" is the best route to go.

1 Canadian on this board equals to THOUSANDS of others that think like you. What about OUR economy? amounting to millions of dollars that are spent over the boarder, and NOT in our own pockets.
Why not shop within parameters, and support the locals.
I have seen top stores that carry out sells of 50% on MOST merchandise, and this is amazing IMO

hey sure, I have been guilty of thinking that crossing the boarder is better.

Unless you are really ready to spend a good 2k in product, where you would save a good 500.00 or close to 1000.00 (excluding gas, traveling time, food costs, tear and wear on your car)


But if you are in the mood to spend a few hundred bucks...spend the money locally.

Just my two cents.




B2J

[4031]

and 2 unknown UG labs?? lol

[The Terminator]

I don't believe that going down south for "shopping deals" is the best route to go.

1 Canadian on this board equals to THOUSANDS of others that think like you. What about OUR economy? amounting to millions of dollars that are spent over the boarder, and NOT in our own pockets.
Why not shop within parameters, and support the locals.
I have seen top stores that carry out sells of 50% on MOST merchandise, and this is amazing IMO

hey sure, I have been guilty of thinking that crossing the boarder is better.

Unless you are really ready to spend a good 2k in product, where you would save a good 500.00 or close to 1000.00 (excluding gas, traveling time, food costs, tear and wear on your car)


But if you are in the mood to spend a few hundred bucks...spend the money locally.

Just my two cents.




B2J

Agree 100%. Keep our money in Canada to support our economy. I'm going to be doing the same thing. When the wife and I head out to do our next roadtrip next summer, it's going to be BC and Alberta to show her where I grew up, and places I've been.

Matt

[michealJ]

I don't believe that going down south for "shopping deals" is the best route to go.

1 Canadian on this board equals to THOUSANDS of others that think like you. What about OUR economy? amounting to millions of dollars that are spent over the boarder, and NOT in our own pockets.
Why not shop within parameters, and support the locals.
I have seen top stores that carry out sells of 50% on MOST merchandise, and this is amazing IMO

hey sure, I have been guilty of thinking that crossing the boarder is better.

Unless you are really ready to spend a good 2k in product, where you would save a good 500.00 or close to 1000.00 (excluding gas, traveling time, food costs, tear and wear on your car)


But if you are in the mood to spend a few hundred bucks...spend the money locally.

Just my two cents.




B2J


AGREE!!

[BAM]

Funny how they'll bail out the banks and the airlines but not the automotive industry.

[drdnj]

I don't believe that going down south for "shopping deals" is the best route to go.

1 Canadian on this board equals to THOUSANDS of others that think like you. What about OUR economy? amounting to millions of dollars that are spent over the boarder, and NOT in our own pockets.
Why not shop within parameters, and support the locals.
I have seen top stores that carry out sells of 50% on MOST merchandise, and this is amazing IMO

hey sure, I have been guilty of thinking that crossing the boarder is better.

Unless you are really ready to spend a good 2k in product, where you would save a good 500.00 or close to 1000.00 (excluding gas, traveling time, food costs, tear and wear on your car)

Great to make a stand on this! I agree...we all have to start thinking this way-----


But if you are in the mood to spend a few hundred bucks...spend the money locally.

Just my two cents.




B2J

Couldn't agree more and well put.....we all have been self-serving and went to where the best deals are...but in times like these we have to keep it in Canada.

[drdnj]

Funny how they'll bail out the banks and the airlines but not the automotive industry.

Ya man...weird how the US bank exectutives committed blatant fraud and got paid millions to do so and then received a "BONUS" from the Gov't......

[Houstonbc]

the recession is affecting some parts of canada i know for a fact, in calgary housing starts are almost non existent right now and that puts alot of trades people/realtors out of work as wells as i think 7 major projects are abandoned in the downtown core from my understanding the exact same thing is going on in the interior of b.c.

[champcar99]

IMO I think we need a recession ...housing prices on the westcoast are retarted...price of gas was getting to be and is going to be a joke..A single person making a average wage cannot afford to live alone, make car payments, buy a house, food...it's ****ing sad and frightening to see that next generations will be ****ed....how will they be able to afford too live...this needs to happen to keep everything in check...

[physique]

is this a joke? are all those business really closing?

also curious if anyone on here agrees the government should bail out the auotmotive industry?

i think they should let them file bankruptcy. screw them. how can we bail out multi-million dollar business???? cant these retards properly run their companies, and put money away for rainy days, like normal people do? even if we bail them out, eventually all cars will be made overseas.
The US government doesnt sound like they will bail the automotive industry out. those CEO's fly in on their private planes and ask for money, god is that not a pathetic. and these ceo's take a million dollar bonus or more each year. hilarious.

if my business gets into trouble where is my bail out package? thats right i will be told to **** off, just as they should tell the auto makers

[Felinecougar]

Some of the stores on the list have already locked the doors in the US..but just starting to in Canada. My oldest daughter lives in Florida and has noticed it moving North for alot of the US based stores. I feel so sorry for the workers in these stores, to be loosing their jobs around Xmas.

I live 20 min from the US border. We don't shop over there for much. Honestly. Shoes at DSW and sometimes I go over to a dept store for a designer item.

Yet hubby is paid in US $ because he works over there. When the US $ was low we delt with it. Imagine some of you...giving up 20-30-as much as 45 % of your pay check due to this. We did and are still dealing with it.

Now that it's back up, I'm still shopping Canadian.

OH..what does hubby do over there? You think your North American cars are built in North America? lol He is over in the Orient having the dies built that are used to make your North American cars. This is putting our Canadian tool & die and mold industry out of work. So do NOT believe it's made in North America just because it was ASSEMBLED in NA.

[BAM]

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i think they should let them file bankruptcy. screw them. how can we bail out multi-million dollar business???? cant these retards properly run their companies, and put money away for rainy days, like normal people do? even if we bail them out, eventually all cars will be made overseas.


The government bailed out the air lines and the banks. I guess those rat bastards can't run a business either. They should have said screw you to the banks and the airlines as well.

So they should let the automotive industry die and all the industries that support it and then they can get everything made in china and assembled in mexico and fuq all the American blue collar workers right? Why do they deserve a quality of life? They should all take a cut in pay and work for 10 bucks an hour while barely being able to feed their kids and smile about how great life is?

[Gib]

^ Yes.

Free market. Ford and GM have made a sub par product at ridiculously inflated prices. The Auto Union has made it possible for people to be paid up to $70 an hour, plus benefits for pushing brooms or turning screws. Thats made their products have to be more expensive to make a profit.

They bargained their way into unemployment.

Too bad.

[BAM]

So we agree the next logical step since the ungrateful blue-collar goyim want a high quality of life, is for the greedy overlord's to implement population control?

:)

Now run out and get those flu shots and while you are at it, make sure your daughters get injected with HPV vaccine.

[Gib]

A) I dont know what a goyim is.

B) The people in trouble if the auto industries close are the unskilled labour. They have had a GREAT run, making big money and benefits for having limited education and no skills.

Well, the party's over.

Anyone who takes their future for granted and assumes their job of turning screws will pay them big money for their whole lives, and that "the union will take care of me!" has ****ed them selves over.

[BAM]

A)

B) The people in trouble if the auto industries close are the unskilled labour. They have had a GREAT run, making big money and benefits for having limited education and no skills.

Well, the party's over.

Anyone who takes their future for granted and assumes their job of turning screws will pay them big money for their whole lives, and that "the union will take care of me!" has ****ed them selves over.

So the only people of any value are people that have high education?

Who do you think built the world you live in with their sweat and blood? some entitled jerkoff that wouldn't know how to use a shovel or a hammer that has no practical skills whatsoever? Everything the uneducated strong backed man built with his braun and practical skills he should destroy and watch the educated ones that think they are so superior, struggle to lift even one shovel full of dirt

They bailed the rich rat-faced goof bankers out.. Comment on that. I choose an honest working assembly line worker over one of those carcinogenic, blood sucking, useless bankers that are not worth a pinch of petrified coon sh1t and have never worked a day in their life, any day.

[Gib]

"Who do you think built the world you live in with their sweat and blood? some entitled jerkoff that wouldn't know how to use a shovel or a hammer that has no practical skills whatsoever? Everything the uneducated strong backed man built with his braun and practical skills he should destroy and watch the educated ones that think they are so superior, struggle to lift even one shovel full of dirt"

Thats such a polar view of the two extremes of representation that it isnt even worth commenting on any further.

"They bailed the rich rat-faced goof bankers out.. Comment on that. "

They grossly weakened our long term economy by doing that - it was a mistake that they should not repeat with another big buisness. Those involved in the collapse should be thrown in jail. Now if you can pin the blame on a handfull of people to be charged then name them. Unfortunately this mess goes all the way back to the Carter presidency when banks were told to allow mortgages for 'higher risk' applicants to diversify home ownership among classes and races, and conitnues to the present day.

See how the government shouldnt be allowed to prop up buisnesses, or make decisions on what companies "should" be successful?

And again, the "Honest working assembly line worker" bullied his way into this position with the threat of strikes that out of control auto unions gave them. They were as greedy as anyone else.

By the way, who is it that created those jobs in the first place? The "uneducated strong backed man" or the "entitled jerkoffs" of the world? Both depend on each other, so trying to play one off as superior is rediculous

[BAM]

Personally, I can't wait until the states turns into a mad max like world so I can get a rich entitled midget to ride around on my shoulders barking orders at me while I stomp the shit out of people.

lol

[Gib]

... I think THAT pretty much has to be the last word on this subject....

And i actually think those days (maybe a slightly less extreme version) arent far off either...

[physique]

The government bailed out the air lines and the banks. I guess those rat bastards can't run a business either. They should have said screw you to the banks and the airlines as well.

So they should let the automotive industry die and all the industries that support it and then they can get everything made in china and assembled in mexico and fuq all the American blue collar workers right? Why do they deserve a quality of life? They should all take a cut in pay and work for 10 bucks an hour while barely being able to feed their kids and smile about how great life is?


we shouldnt be bailing out those industries either.to my knowledge canadian banks havent been bailed out.

and yes i stand by my words, we shouldnt be bailing the automotive industry out. we have to take a hard look at what we created in terms of how we live, and if ( i should say when) everything eventually will be made overseas. its inevitable, maybe not in our lifetime, but someday. as for companies its all about the "BOTTOM LINE".

[physique]

"Who do you think built the world you live in with their sweat and blood? some entitled jerkoff that wouldn't know how to use a shovel or a hammer that has no practical skills whatsoever? Everything the uneducated strong backed man built with his braun and practical skills he should destroy and watch the educated ones that think they are so superior, struggle to lift even one shovel full of dirt"

Thats such a polar view of the two extremes of representation that it isnt even worth commenting on any further.

"They bailed the rich rat-faced goof bankers out.. Comment on that. "

They grossly weakened our long term economy by doing that - it was a mistake that they should not repeat with another big buisness. Those involved in the collapse should be thrown in jail. Now if you can pin the blame on a handfull of people to be charged then name them. Unfortunately this mess goes all the way back to the Carter presidency when banks were told to allow mortgages for 'higher risk' applicants to diversify home ownership among classes and races, and conitnues to the present day.

See how the government shouldnt be allowed to prop up buisnesses, or make decisions on what companies "should" be successful?

And again, the "Honest working assembly line worker" bullied his way into this position with the threat of strikes that out of control auto unions gave them. They were as greedy as anyone else.

By the way, who is it that created those jobs in the first place? The "uneducated strong backed man" or the "entitled jerkoffs" of the world? Both depend on each other, so trying to play one off as superior is rediculous

GOOD POST

[Gettin'r'round]

Some people here are conspiracy crazed internet lefties.

Bailing out the banks the way they did was criminal. But if they failed they would take out huge sectors of the economy like an atomic bomb. Say I had 2million in my business account and WHAM, it's gone with a bank failure. Ok now you have $100,000 in deposit insurance but you took 1.9mil haircut. How could you pay staff, suppliers, GST, etc? And how would your customers pay you if they also took a haircut? You'd go under and so would a lot of other people. Hence the bailout. Banks are NOT autoworkers! A bank is akin to hydro and gas. If GM and Ford goes there are still Honda, Toyota, Hyundai etc etc. Airlines getting bailed out? Where?

How can you have a biz burning through 2billion per month (GM) and think they are a good investment? Take a look at how many SUV's are made under it's myriad of brands for instance. They didn't want to make small, efficient cars because they made so much easy money off SUV's (~$10,000 per vehicle). So they passed the field to the Japanese auto makers. Bad management leads to failure, not taxpayer largess. In the 70's and 80's the big 3 gave away the bank to the Unions in health care/retirement costs. These need to be renegotiated through chapter 11.

BTW I'm also going to take a hit as well should the big 3 go under, but distorting the economy through a bailout will mean more pain later. The pain we should have felt in 01 with the tech boom is coming back ten-fold. Gov't started this mess with Fannie Me and Freddie Mac and too low interest rates. (derivatives were invented by these two gov't mortgage entities)

[natenator]

The government bailed out the air lines and the banks. I guess those rat bastards can't run a business either. They should have said screw you to the banks and the airlines as well.

So they should let the automotive industry die and all the industries that support it and then they can get everything made in china and assembled in mexico and fuq all the American blue collar workers right? Why do they deserve a quality of life? They should all take a cut in pay and work for 10 bucks an hour while barely being able to feed their kids and smile about how great life is?
If automotive workers didn't demand blood from their company maybe gov't would be more willing to help out? But no, the ****tard unions make statements that indicate they are not willing to do anything to help out in this crisis.

While I'm on it... what makes anyone think someone who pushes a button on an automotive assembly line deserves to make $50K-$75K and more (OT) for what they do? Most of those people have an education to higher than a monkey yet they are paid very well for a job that if they didn't work in automative would see them wearing their name on their shirt and asking "do you want fries with that?".

[Gettin'r'round]

I also don't see why automakers are a protected species? I've just received a liquidation notice for a rather large precision tooling company. These must have been high paying tool and die jobs that required a lot of skill but they didn't get bailed out. An autoworker is nowhere near as skilled but they have a loud, vocal union don't they?

Speaking of unions it' time the public sector unions get with the program, not asking for 11% over 2 years like they are at York U right now. Hello guys, watching the news lately?

[natenator]

I also don't see why automakers are a protected species? I've just received a liquidation notice for a rather large precision tooling company. These must have been high paying tool and die jobs that required a lot of skill but they didn't get bailed out. An autoworker is nowhere near as skilled but they have a loud, vocal union don't they?

Speaking of unions it' time the public sector unions get with the program, not asking for 11% over 2 years like they are at York U right now. Hello guys, watching the news lately?
1) I agree with you about skilled workers which is why I made sure to indicate assembly line workers.

2) Unions in general can kiss my ass. The government needs to start restricting the amount of power they control (which also goes for public sector unions). While it's easy for an outsider to say don't give them their raise... how well do people that is going to work? GM says go on strike which in turn loses them billions of dollars in sales yet so they give in and give their raise. It's legalized extortion and it's simply not needed anymore. We have employment laws now that prevent a lot of what unions are supposed to be good for. Their purpose is not what it was. Now, instead of protecting the employee from the company their purpose is to use the employees to screw the company.

[tony_canuck]

I can't believe how people say "buy American cars" or support your local car company when most of the cars are built all over the place. If you want to support the local guys, you can buy Toyota which has thousands of jobs in Canada and the US, better quality cars and pays it's non-union guys around $44 an hour with benefits while the big 3 avg around $77 an hour including benefits and pension. The oddest thing is that the union refuses to budge on pay and benefits!! I don't understand who voted these idiots in charge of the union, 2 choices either bankrupt the company, which means no money, no benefits and no pension, or take a cut and keep your job. And they choose to play chicken with the tax payers money....

The sub-prime mess would never have happened if they did one simple thing, make it a law that you must put up 10% down payment. If you can't afford a house, then you shouldn't have one. I read about a gardener making $14,000 a year who bought a $750,000 house!! With 110% mortgage, he took money out of the house and walked away. Duh, if I had no money and someone said hey TC want 500k? Of course I'll take it. He pulled more money on the closing of that house than he makes all year cutting grass.....

As far as bailouts, I can understand trying to keep the financial system working, but the execs who made millions and some billions in the years past should be forced to PAY BACK the money they took in bonuses!! That money was BS since they're plans got all screwed up, they should go to jail too, but they should pay the money back!!