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August 02, 2018 06:11PM
Closing mall stores. Interesting! I've shopped them several times.
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August 02, 2018 07:11PM
I am not surprised. The stores around here are usually pretty empty of customers.
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August 02, 2018 07:15PM
The airport locations will remain open for now. I did one of those last year.
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August 03, 2018 01:51AM
Brookstone is (was?) one of my favorite places to get weird doo-dads. Like the USB cable/bottle opener I bought for my computer geek son on my last shop.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt
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August 03, 2018 01:53AM
Not surprising. There are just not enough people who want to buy the trinkets and overpriced items they market. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of their revenue came from the petty purchases that MSers were required to make. In all many many visits, I never saw anyone else purchase anything. Perhaps they were surviving off online sales.
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August 03, 2018 01:56AM
They did have some great stuff for people who are hard to buy for. Maybe they will just go to online sales. I bought a water-resistant remote speaker from there about 15 years ago that still works great.
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August 03, 2018 02:28AM
I just did a shop there on 7/29 and customers' were definitely buying. When I entered the store both of the employees were ringing up sales. I had to wait in line to make my purchase. I suppose it depends on the mall. The one near my house is upscale and people have money to spend. Many customers wanted to try out the massage chairs, but I doubt they sell many of those.
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August 03, 2018 07:59AM
Yup, mall shopping is not what it used to be. Brookstone is like what Sharper Image used to be. It's sad to see many malls declining. There is one mall, the Hilltop Mall in Richmond, that has really declined in recent years. I had commented to my son that back in its day this particular mall was crowded. Now, since that merry weed has been legalized in CA, that's all you can smell in that mall's parking lot.
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August 03, 2018 03:50PM
@catgrannyof5 wrote:

Yup, mall shopping is not what it used to be. Brookstone is like what Sharper Image used to be. It's sad to see many malls declining. There is one mall, the Hilltop Mall in Richmond, that has really declined in recent years. I had commented to my son that back in its day this particular mall was crowded. Now, since that merry weed has been legalized in CA, that's all you can smell in that mall's parking lot.

It's a huge YMMV when it comes to shopping malls. The shopping malls in Denver marketed towards the middle class to the wealthy are PACKED and any store closures are immediately occupied by a new client. Otherwise, the working class to lower middle class malls are suffering bad and tend to be dead malls sad smiley.

I am sad to see the 2 Brookstones in my area closing. There's still the ones at the airport, but still.

Shopping the Greater Denver Area, Colorado Springs and in-between in Colorado. 33 year old male and willing to travel!
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August 03, 2018 03:55PM
I've enjoyed shopping this store. Too bad.
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August 03, 2018 06:22PM
The one near me closed earlier this year and it is in a decent area. I didn't see many customers in the store. I did see customers sitting in their massaging chairs though. Unfortunately I think that's the trend for the future now where many of the stores are going to close that are in the mall.
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