@Revelate wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Not that I shop there or half the places on the edge of GOOB, but I will be sad if one day we can't get these items in a physical store. Not all of use like buying sight unseen online for everything...
Except the online retailers have already solved this. It's a little extra hassle for the consumer sure but buy it and if you don't like it, send it back. Seems to be working...
A lot of good insight in this thread. +10 for Unique Vintage! (Love cute fit and flare dresses, and that place is amazing for it.)
Amazon started this years ago: Amazon Will Let Customers Try On Clothes Before They Buy (Cosmopolitan, 2017)
"The company's new initiative, Prime Wardrobe, allows you to shop online from Prime-verified retailers, ship three or more items to your doorstep, and pay only for the clothing you keep. You have seven days to give back the rest, using a prepaid return label — and if you keep three to four pieces from your shipment, you get 10 percent off each one. If you keep more than five items, you get 20 percent off per item."
Just anecdotal, but a lot of other women I've met at various developer/coding conferences buy pretty much all their clothes online. I have for years. It seems to be common among people who are really into their work and don't stop when they get home.
Talbots (catalog shows up regular in my mail) for quality work clothes. H&M for summer dresses because I can get a dozen of them for $300 - no big deal if they don't last until next summer, because I'm going to be bored with them anyway. ASOS for heels, both work and play, usually around $40 a pair - again, I don't care if they last years.
L.L.Bean for very good quality, supersoft pajamas - my favorite 'work clothes' since I do much of my work from home.
H&M is doing well and that doesn't surprise me in the least. They basically kept my favorite mall open for as long as it was - CambridgeSide in Cambridge, MA, near MIT and that other famous college.
Any store that was bought by private equity is at high risk of bankruptcy:
"But for both private equity firms and the mafia, investors use their control of the firm to take on more debt, while at the same time cutting costs by laying off workers. [If you watched Goodfellas, you know the game.]
Cash from the loans and cost savings are funneled back to the investors. This looting continues until the company can’t pay its debts. When it finally collapses, the company files for bankruptcy to extinguish the debt — but private equity investors, as well as mobsters, get to keep the gains they’ve already reaped." Bain Capital Explained By Tony Soprano
