Another one bites the dust

"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone) 04/23/2020 at 09:59 • Filed to: None

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Feelings?

ranwhenparked > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/23/2020 at 10:06

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I think there’s a chance they could survive in some form, as long as their remaining stores are able to reopen pretty soon - if the shutdown goes on all year and into next, every retailer aside from grocery stores and pharmacies will be dead, anyway.

I would expect Sears and JC Penney to totally disappear before Neiman Marcus does, but who knows? They might all go at about the same time.

user314 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/23/2020 at 10:16

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Meh. NM has no presence in my area, so I have no connection to the brand beyond knowing the urban legend about their cookies.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/23/2020 at 10:19

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Oh, so sad, one less luxury brand that 95% of the population had no ability to shop with?

ranwhenparked > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 04/23/2020 at 10:36

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You can get good deals at those places when they put stuff on sale, though. I got a pair of suede Bruno Magli at NM earlier this year  for $120, marked down from $500.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > ranwhenparked 04/23/2020 at 11:14

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Sure, but you still paid $100 more than I’ve ever paid for a pair of shoes...

ranwhenparked > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 04/23/2020 at 11:16

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I prefer to pay a little more upfront for quality and wear them forever. I've got a pair of Allen Edmonds that are 12 years old and still in good shape, wore them almost every day for several years and still wear them a lot

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > ranwhenparked 04/23/2020 at 11:21

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That’s fair. I tend to just find shoes that have little to no wear at the Goodwill in the good neighborhoods. I got a pair of Nikes that were like $60 new for $5 last year and I’ve worn them daily since. I also rarely if ever have a dressy occasion, and my job doesn’t have much of a dress code, if any, because Engineering.

Ash78, voting early and often > ranwhenparked 04/23/2020 at 11:23

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That’s just like owning a white Bronco! :P

Ash78, voting early and often > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/23/2020 at 11:25

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This was the stuff of legends, I almost forgot they even existed in brick and mortar format. I read their catalogs in the 90s just for fun. I mean, they literally sold shit like “Trips to the moon” for $50k in the early 90s, just off speculation.

His and Hers AM General Hummers was another catalog item. It was insane.

I was a little disappointed when I learned their stores were basically upscale Macy’s. Anyway...this was probably long overdue since the world mostly turned its back on mass excess after the 08-09 crisis.

Dollars to donuts the rights get bought out and they keep stores open in Dubai (etc) with different owners.

ranwhenparked > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 04/23/2020 at 11:26

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Oh, yeah, that is another way to do it. Just that the stuff that’s cheap when new tends to fall apart fast.

I was a nonprofit administrator for 6 years, a bank manager for awhile, and have been mostly in field sales for years, basically every employer has wanted us to look professional. Though, my current company seems to be loosening up a lot, if/when we ever go back to normal work, we'll be allowed to wear jeans and sneakers IF we do it with a company logo golf shirt, I've never be able to do that before. Of course, they only gave us like 2 shirts, and I'm not doing laundry multiple times a week

ranwhenparked > Ash78, voting early and often 04/23/2020 at 11:29

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Yeah, but mine don’t have a distinctive tread, so they’d never catch me.

Seriously, that piece of evidence was ridiculous - the company only shipped a few dozen of that model in that size to the US, only 2 pairs were sold in southern California, and a Bloomingdales executive who handled VIP clients recalled that he sold one of them to OJ about a year before the murders. There was likely only one other person besides him who could have made those shoe prints

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > ranwhenparked 04/23/2020 at 11:43

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Yeah, my company has a dress code in their handbook, but in general people wear sneakers, jeans, and a t shirt or maybe a polo. Never a tie in sight. And generally nobody cares if we even go in to the office generally, as long as the work gets done. It’s... nice.

3point8isgreat > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/23/2020 at 11:44

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I didn’t know they had stores.  I thought they were just an annual catalog of cars with gaudy interiors.

RPM esq. > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 04/23/2020 at 12:09

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Somebody has to buy those shoes new at full price before they get to Goodwill, you know! And some of us like nice things other than cars, such as well-made shoes, which aren’t made by Vietnamese children, so they’re not cheap.

DipodomysDeserti > RPM esq. 04/23/2020 at 12:33

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Sad thing is even the nice things are made by Vietnamese children. They’re just living in a slum in Milan.

DipodomysDeserti > Ash78, voting early and often 04/23/2020 at 12:45

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“ ...this was probably long overdue since the world mostly turned its back on mass excess after the 08-09 crisis.”

I see you haven’t visited Scottsdale, Arizona, recently. Only difference is rich people can order fancy shit off Amazon. 

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > RPM esq. 04/23/2020 at 12:53

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Check where your nice shoes are made. They were probably made in Vietnam too.

RPM esq. > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 04/23/2020 at 15:32

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Not many Vietnamese factories in Wisconsin or northern England.

RPM esq. > DipodomysDeserti 04/23/2020 at 15:33

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That’s certainly a fair point about some things (looking at you, Ray-Ban), but there aren’t many Vietnamese children working in factories in Wisconsin or the north of England.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Ash78, voting early and often 04/23/2020 at 21:24

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“world mostly turned its back on mass excess after the 08-09 crisis.”

I remember 3 years ago when these became popular and walking around boston, every third person had one. starting price at the time was 800

pip bip - choose Corrour > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 04/24/2020 at 05:44

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no loss

ST80MND > ranwhenparked 04/25/2020 at 11:46

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You guys still have Sears!? Crazy, I thought we collectively watched (for decades!) Sears die a horrible, but deserved, death like 2 years ago.

ranwhenparked > ST80MND 04/25/2020 at 11:59

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I don't think there's any left in my state, other than their franchised Sears Hometown stores, but, yeah, they somehow "survived" bankruptcy and still have a few hundred stores left. They did close about half of what they kept, like barely a year after exiting bankruptcy, so, at most, it just delayed the inevitable.