awful knawful Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 1 hour ago, xcr700 said: I remember browsing through the womans underwear and swimsuit section........ Good spank material 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 11 minutes ago, Cold War said: All K marts have closed around here. They have always had a bad stigma they were never able to shake. I read a bit a while back of the differences in Walmart and Kmart's management teams and decisions. Needless to say, it should be a book on what NOT to do in retail. K mart made every wrong decision or every decision too late. It read like a horror story for big business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwytohell Posted October 15, 2018 Author Share Posted October 15, 2018 7 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said: We have a KMart and Sears on either side of M66 here....the strip mall that Kmart is located in is mostly empty now and Sears is the anchor for it's smaller mall across the highway....not good. Your blue light special is now toast . Sadly the aged workers will most likely take a cut with the sears / kmart pension bomb that will be held soon by the gubbermint master minds. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2018/10/15/sears-files-bankruptcy/38160675/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 5 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said: I’m sure she is concerned...Sears missed out early on the online ordering craze. Weird because my mom used to order shit out of that catalog all the time. Youd think the switch to online would be natural. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted October 15, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 15, 2018 6 hours ago, xcr700 said: I remember browsing through the womans underwear and swimsuit section........ Yep. Girls and gun sections. All a growing boy needed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwytohell Posted October 15, 2018 Author Share Posted October 15, 2018 7 hours ago, Nazipigdog said: Big stores are going away. Don't know if there is anything can be done to change that. Gonna be a lot of empty real estate and less of your tax base covered by local commerce. Big tax fight here in Michigan over the " dark big box stores " . All of the good gubbermint PAC groups have been asking local units of gubbermint to donate taxpayers dollars into the upcoming legal fight with the state tax tribunal . It is now focused on a Menard's store in the U.P. of MI . We had a speaker come to our real estate investment group . Malls and strip malls are in deep trouble along with office space property in northern MI. Extreme thin profit margins , high taxes , needed repairs , fixed daily operational costs , glut of space , local gubbermints unwilling to rezone for other possible uses. He said that you will see the investment groups tear down the buildings and sit on the land . His video showed many properties that were for lease / sale for over five years are now cleared . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 15 minutes ago, hwytohell said: Big tax fight here in Michigan over the " dark big box stores " . All of the good gubbermint PAC groups have been asking local units of gubbermint to donate taxpayers dollars into the upcoming legal fight with the state tax tribunal . It is now focused on a Menard's store in the U.P. of MI . We had a speaker come to our real estate investment group . Malls and strip malls are in deep trouble along with office space property in northern MI. Extreme thin profit margins , high taxes , needed repairs , fixed daily operational costs , glut of space , local gubbermints unwilling to rezone for other possible uses. He said that you will see the investment groups tear down the buildings and sit on the land . His video showed many properties that were for lease / sale for over five years are now cleared . Strip clubs and casinos. Thats all youre gonna get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwytohell Posted October 15, 2018 Author Share Posted October 15, 2018 31 minutes ago, Highmark said: Yep. Girls and gun sections. All a growing boy needed. The two pages that had go carts and mini bikes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 42 minutes ago, Highmark said: Yep. Girls and gun sections. All a growing boy needed. This... 8 minutes ago, hwytohell said: The two pages that had go carts and mini bikes. And this after! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted October 15, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 15, 2018 Just now, Zambroski said: This... And this after! I always joke with my wife and say I "had" every decent looking chick back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted October 15, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 15, 2018 Ted Williams shotguns and fishing rods! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 12 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Ted Williams shotguns and fishing rods! I had a Ted Williams shotgun! It was a good gun. My BIL has it now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwytohell Posted October 15, 2018 Author Share Posted October 15, 2018 22 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Ted Williams shotguns and fishing rods! Still see a few Ted Williams branded outboard motors on the lake. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActionfigureJoe Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Thanks donny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 The K-Mart here is now about 4 different stores and the one back home is a manufacturing company. The Sears closed last year and is in the process of being gutted and renovated into several smaller stores. The Sears Hometown back home is still around, somehow. My first toolbox and tools came from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted October 16, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 16, 2018 21 hours ago, Mainecat said: It’s lazy Americans not wanting to get off their overgrown fat asses and actually walk somewhere. Saw high school kids waiting for the bus the other morning 9 out of 10 were overweight all were not socializing just looking down at their phones. Surprised they were waiting for a bus and didn't insist mommy drive them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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