Posted by paul on January 05, 2016 at 07:58:26 from (76.77.197.114):
In Reply to: Fleet Farm Sold posted by wi_buff_farmer on January 05, 2016 at 05:31:30:
They are closing the Target store in town the end of the month. Was here 15 years. Target hasn't figured out its place in the retail market, they are leaving any sort of rural area and working on big city metro area, more high end items. Oh well, sad to see them go but they kinda abandoned our rural type of products so e time ago trying to save themselves I get it.
Kmart left years ago.
There is rumor the few year old Menards local store is on thin ice, might close if things don't pick up this summer. One of their most bipusiness stores is only 30 miles away, they built ours to take the pressure off that store as it was just too busy.....
Walmart came about the time Kmart closed of course. They have never been open 24 hours in this town, just odd for a Walmart? Hear they really aren't doing well, tho with Target closing in sure they will be fine. I've never heard a good thing about their grocery section.
Both long time grocery stores in town have been 24 hour for decades, and seem to be doing well. Hyvee and Cashwise.
Strangely, we still have a Sears tool and appliance, and a Radio Shack in town. Go figure!
Mills Fleet Farm just opened up a year ago 30 miles away. Will be disappointed when the management team from a big city guts them and they stop selling rural stuff any more. We just get them near, and they change. Sigh. And we all know, they will change. Selfie sticks are big markups, a tractor battery is not.....
Runnings is in town, they have been a good rural supply store. A little high priced, but they have stuff. They took over the old Kmart building a couple years ago, glad to see them remain active, expanding, and more or less family owned yet.
Cabelas, they have always been so high priced. Neat to visit, make a day trip of it, but hard to do any sort of weekly shopping there. Just so high priced. They should have remained a treat, a few widely spaced stores. When they try to be in every metro area they get lost in the background, just too high priced to be an everyplace store. Bass Pro will have to gut them to make it all work..... Won't ever be what it was when they were just a few special stores.
Best Buy was in big trouble years ago, they seem to have figured out how to do online and retail at the same time, and are on solid ground for now. They are 30 miles away.
So it goes.
The irony of all this is Sears. They -were- the big online store - known as catalog sales back then. They controlled the retail sales in the USA at one time. Now, they struggle to survive, probably will have to bankrupt to get to the other side some year. And so, now they are the ones beaten by online sales, such as Amazon. The new king. What goes around comes around.
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