At the end of June, Tuesday Morning asked to convert its Chapter 11 to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy (total liquidation), which will be considered by the bankruptcy court on July 27th. This has probably been inevitable since the May 2nd announcement, but it seems like they waited about two months to pull that trigger in hopes of someone coming in to rescue them...
@gordontaylor2815 In my opinion, they shouldn't have bothered with Chapter 11 honestly as that just basically delayed the inevitable; they obviously should have just filed for Chapter 7 altogether right away in the first place. No reorganization case, nothing. It would have put the company out of its misery sooner.
Former employee. The corporate bosses never listened to employee suggestions on what could have been done to improve daily operations. Corporate would only come in to yell about numbers . They were individuals that I had never actually worked with in the store . Tuesday was severely under the public’s radar due to very little advertising and almost non-existing online store presence. They had a failed attempt at a rewards program.The stores wouldn’t stick to its own company exchange and return policy. If someone was a big enough tyrant they would get all money back on returns way past 30 days . (Months) sometimes it was over $100.00 in cash.
I think what did Tuesday Morning in isn’t a change in shopper mentality. People still go to stores looking for bargains (hence the appeal of TJMaxx, Ross, Burlington, Big Lots, etc.). But most of those are known for people scoring great deals on things people actually need and use (clothing, furniture, cookware, etc.). The problem with Tuesday Morning is that they buy a lot of schlock-tchotchkes and white elephants that no one needs. About 15-20 years ago they had a TV ad campaign where they would show a product that they claimed they had the previous week, and then they scolded people for not coming in to shop. The tagline was something like “Didn’t get here last week. Better get here next week.” Veiled threats aside, the products they showed to entice us were usually something with no practical purpose. A porcelain gnome comes to mind. It just wasn’t a compelling reason to go. They could have turned this around by inviting social media influencers to come shop and then “haul” their purchases online… but they seem firmly stuck in the 1980s.
Yep. That, and at least in the case of my location, they raised their prices. I used to wade through the aisles of out-of-fashion toys and mug warmers (or whatever) because I’d always come home with some kind of fancy body scrub, or a candle, gourmet olives, maybe European chocolate or cookies…. But they stopped giving good deals on those things. They started knocking maybe a buck off of full retail for these little luxuries. So after several trips of leaving empty handed I pretty much forgot the store existed.
The only time I was in a Tuesday Morning, it was to get something advertised in the current week's ad (A cat tree). I looked around, didn't find it. Asked a worker. He didn't know what I was talking about. Showed him the ad, said they didn't have them. I left and never went back.
@Drew Conway The stores you are comparing it too are different because clothes make up the vast majority of those stores Home Goods is a TJ maxx company ...but I bet its a small portion of their business compared to the clothes that they sell
The problem with treasure hunting is nowadays with the internet in our pockets we can compare online to see if a price is actually good or not. And these stores have lots of weird brand electronics so when you go to try to look for reviews you can't find out anything so then are hesitant to buy from unknown brands. At least with online brands online we can look at reviews to assist with decision making.
I found it very funny how they filed bankruptcy on a Tuesday morning! Also the store I went into which was in Skokie Illinois that is also closing was the exact same with literally no store closing signs in it and it looked like a thrift store.
My store didn’t look like that, but I and my team cared about it and made it look good. We relocated from a dump five years ago this month, and at the end of this month we’re closing. They stopped sending us trucks at the end of January-3 weeks before announcing the bankruptcy. They knew what they were planning. And yes our merchandise selection the last few years has gone way down.
I worked at tuesday morning for 6 years and we took extreme pride in keeping it as beautiful as possible with the ever changing emails from corporate, but us as im assuming your location had was the regular customers, the store in this video does not represent the rest of our stores, thank you also for taking pride in your store while it lasted.
I didn’t like the video it doesn’t represent all the Tuesday Morning. I lived in West Texas and their location was a dumped. Then COVID hit and I moved to to the DFW and their location was awesome.
I’ve been to two local locations of Tuesday Morning in the SF Bay Area that have since closed. Your description of bland is quite true. Even when fully stocked, both of those location were filled with crap that no one was buying. The store actually looks like one of those new stores that sells returned merch from Amazon, Costco, and Target.
Used to work at Tuesday morning, about 60-70% of the money we made was off 10 customers that would regularly come in and each would spend around $500 every week. I figured they were all crazy lol. One of them was an* interior designer
I went to my local Tuesday Morning yesterday looking for a dozen laundry baskets(don't ask). As far as I know it's not on the closure list, but it looked like a thrift store that had fallen on hard times. They only had two baskets so I ended up going to Kroger and buying what I needed, and it actually cost less than the ones at Tuesday Morning.
Back in the day, my father had got me my own landline for my bedroom. This turned out to be an old phone number for a Tuesday Morning that had either moved or closed down relatively recently, and I'd often get phone calls intended to reach them: "Hello, is this Tuesday morning?" Should be needless to say, as a young teen, I had plenty of fun with this.
Just a warning, that Packard Bell keyboard is in name only. The Packard Bell from our youth died a long, long time ago. It’s owned by a Dutch company, that itself is owned by Acer. My first computer was also a Packard Bell. My dad bought it for my family in 1994, when I was 10. It was a 486 with Windows 3.11. He paid way too much for it at a now long defunct electronics store owned by Tandy/RadioShack known as McDuff Electronics.
There was a Tuesday Morning near me in California that closed in the last few months as well. I used to go there for jigsaw puzzles which seemed to be perpetually on sale for ~50% off. Our store was in a smaller location which resulted in far narrower aisles and a dark claustrophobic feeling.
Yeah the local one where I used to live was in a strip mall and was like a quarter of the size of the one in this video. They were really great for getting name-brand expensive toys during the holidays for a decent deal.
Well but technically stories like Ollie's bargain outlet functions off of the same basic idea. You know it's pretty much you all the sudden decide you need an air fryer so you're going to stop by Ollie's and literally go in there and hunt for that particular item and of course whatever bargain they may have available on it. Odd lots otherwise known as Big lots has functioned off of that concept for multiple decades dating back to the 70s. So to me I don't really think that their story is really any worse than any other close out retailer. Now I will say there might be something to be said about the selection of items in the store, I mean if they're not placing a lot of emphasis on having air fryers vacuum cleaners maybe a few odds and ends for your car versus they want you to buy funny shaped chairs for the kids then yeah okay that's where they are screwing things up and it's not very good... Of course I will say that a lot of companies tend to just buy what they can get for cheap that they figured they can mark up so perhaps the company needs to evaluate its product buyers. And then of course if they have regional product buyers you know they need to re-examine them and find out what they know or what they don't know because that could easily be a problem if you're buying products that notoriously do not sell well in a certain area then it's kind of dumb to buy them on clothes out thinking that you two can sell them even if the price is 20% lower than it would be at the conventional retailer it's either people want those products or they don't you can't force them to take those products just because you put a lower price on them. And I will say that there's a whole host of retailers that have failed to adjust to this they're still stuck back in the 90s if not early to mid-2000s in the full swing of the bubble economy people had or at least seemingly had money hanging out of their ass and they went in and bought nearly anything they didn't really care that it was crap they didn't need. I can remember all through the decade of the 90s stories like de Jones and of course just about every format of the dollar store there was Ben's filled with literally Jack but they also seem to sell a hell of a lot of it that's why they continuously carried it. At some point the crash happened and all of it was finally recognized as bloat the 90s and even up to the mid-2000s had a terrible bloat in retail a large portion of that merchandise I'm pretty certain is what's floating around and half your clothes out stores are even your flea markets by now I mean it's still kind of in play they never really got rid of half of it I mean there's been some videos here on UA-cam about retailers that left warehouses just full of shit. And I will do that they'll write stuff off and then they'll just straight up abandon it and of course all of this is a huge sign that there's an income deficiency across the population they can't sell things even good stuff that isn't necessarily junk.
My ex-wife used to work at one of these stores as a manager. The discount prices on top of her employee discount was very nice for the things we did get. They are very hit-and-miss with the stuff that you may actually want to buy but when you do have certain items come through it's like hitting a gold mind.
I used to go to Tuesday Morning quite often and find craft supplies, dog toys, Christmas stocking stuffers, and other random things. Most of ours closed in my area, but they were always packed with inventory and customers when I was there. They were in expensive retail areas though & closed. I still miss them. (I’m in Virginia Beach.)
Well I will say that it's very common of members of the public standing on the outside of any given store to make the observation that the store was always busy followed by a closed that's a common scene amongst the public they think that just because the store is busy there shouldn't have been any trouble. Of course this is a general statement I'm not trying to say that that's what you yourself are implying. As far as expansive retail areas go, I don't necessarily think that that would have hurt their business per se simply because they become part of the variety offered in that area a lot of it I think has to come down to the fact that perhaps their products were not tailored to what most people in the area would care to buy a lot of retailers have this problem I'm certain they're not the only one. Of course you also have the situation to where chain stores even some of the best performing locations can fall subject to store closure if the bigger company decides to close stores of that region. I watched this happen in the early '90s with Kmart and of course we saw it again through the years with Kmart and other assorted retailers. did they would be decent performing stores but because the company was restructuring and they said that we're going to close ex number of locations they would seemingly at random just pick an area and say it's underperforming and then they would go through and just close all the stores I would argue bad management Plato factor in that and of course this could be a problem plaguing this particular company bad management is not nor will it ever be a New concept.
@@American-Motors-Corporation Kmart closed all their locations in Kazoo in 2004 or 2005 before they had problems surprised that the 3 remaining Kmarts are still open in the US. AtHome took the Kmart space where I lived never been to since that isn't my type of place. Dick's Sporting Goods took the other former Kmart place in 2015 across the street from Crossroads Mall , I have no idea of the 3RD Kmart what is there now on the east side of the city.
@@benb8407 okay Mart did have problems back then, in fact since the late seventies and through the decade of the 80s up through the deities they were affected by bad management, bankruptcies, embezzlement problems as well as massive expansion programmes that cost them tons and tons of money. And then of course their final big blow was when they purchased Sears! Yeah I know a lot of people do think that Sears buy Kmart No in fact it was the other way around. Well they basically figured that if the two companies merged at the time it would give them a total of 5% of the retail market which happened in 2005! Kmart has been plagued with problems for decades dating back to the seventies, for the first half of the 70s their major problem was they failed to reinvest in the company of course they paid a high dividend on their stock which was great for shareholders but it was terrible for the company. Their major problem also came in the form of they refuse to invest in the technology necessary to standardize modernize and streamlinetheir logistics operations see this is where Walmart pulled ahead of them they put the money into the computer system is necessary to make the back of the store run very efficiently whereas Kmart refused to do so. And that was a product of late 70's and Early 80's!
We had local chains like Tuesday Morning in New England that went out of business in the 1990s or early 2000s. It's hard to compete with larger chains and on-line retailers that can buy the same stuff cheaper in bulk. Tuesday Morning is probably a victim of the logistics issues happening with shipping containers.
I interviewed for an accounting position at their corporate office in 2016 after graduating college. I tried contacting them a few times after and no one could ever even give me a notice that I didn’t get the job. Very unprofessional. Looking back I’m glad they never gave me an offer lol
Tuesday morning was my account as I manage their purchase orders for our supply chain management department. Their buyers are always hard to get ahold of whenever I called thier corporate phone line. They always would prefer to email back 2 to 3 days later. I'm not surprised that nobody got back to you if I'm having issues contacting their corporate number to get ahold of someone in Purchasing
We had a TM pop up in my town around 25 year's ago. And it didn't last long. For back then they marketed themselves as a discount retailer. And would have weekly flyers saying this item is regularly $79.99 but now $19.99 , this item is regularly $139.999 but now $34.99. And you could find the exact item brand new in a nearby store everyday price , Cheaper than their ((discounted)) price.🤦
Tuesday Morning had a following. There was consistent traffic at the store in the strip mall where I am (a relatively well-off area) . I'm sure some locations do much better than others.
They seemed to have smaller stores that worked in areas where the big boxes weren’t welcome. Back when my family was at the height of their Christmas stocking suffer mania the place was a lifesaver. All the locations that I frequented closed by 2020.
The one in our town was great even though it was smaller than others and in a well-kept, older strip mall. They had a fantastic selection of stuff and friendly workers. I purchased all kinds of reasonably priced, high quality items from them through the years including furniture, children's toys, books, arts and crafts supplies, luggage, rugs, kitchen goods, bedding, beauty products, home organization items and office supplies. It was my go to for birthday and Christmas gifts. It stayed fairly busy. I was sad to see them go.
I briefly worked for Tuesday Morning over 15 years ago, and my store was in a state of flux while I was there. It was bad enough that the manager of the other location in my little town was called in to help us straighten up. That store eventually folded (after I left) and the retail space it inhabited is still sitting bare. I assumed it was just this particular Tuesday Morning but maybe not. I had never thought about it but you're probably right: this kind of retail is probably outdated now, especially after covid.
The thing is bargain hunting isn't outdated. Amazon bin stores, or bin stores are booming and growing big. People like digging and find the deals. Look into it
@0:55 I think what probably happened is a lot of that inventory got distributed to other stores to fill them out. It's probably why it looks like that so early on.
They may have already sold the fixtures. They are very well made and hold alot of weight. When one closed in 2010 because they lost their lease I paid 50 bucks a section for the rolling ones. Still have them but I used them for my booth I had back them at the antique mall
I have always preferred Tuesday Morning to other discounted stores like Big Lots and Ross. Years ago, they used to be the only place that had higher-end items at overstock prices. I know things have changed but I think I preferred my local TM because it didn't lean into the excessively-trendy stuff nearly as much. Then again, I live in a college town, so many the girls just snatched it up quicker, idk. But my store is on the closing list (of course it is) so I guess I need to pop in again and see if there's anything I can't live without. I could use a rug, honestly.
Of course another thing to be said about the selection of inventory and a lot of these places, is simply with the bigger retailers scaling back there's most likely going to be a lot less to choose from and then of course you have flation to battle at the same time so to be honest a lot of these companies going forward will definitely experience problems most of which will most likely cause their businesses to contract to say the least otherwise many of them are going to go out of business. This would include even the little palette businesses that I had mentioned in my previous comment. If the retailers particularly that of the big boys are scaling back what they're carrying which they are and we've all seen the obvious signs such as they're eliminating shelvings or moving existing shelving over this is why the aisles are getting wider they're trying to minimize what they carry and they're only trying to focus on items that they are certain people will buy. So basically the retail market is adjusting it's moving towards putting a lot less emphasis on the wants and more on the needs. So yes they will carry a lot of items that you don't need that's still going to be there however they're trying to hone in on what products would sell the most frequently kind of like department stores of the old days that if they carried items above 50 or above $100 they didn't have an abundance of those items because those items were not expected to sell all that quickly instead they placed emphasis on the common items that were below $50 that would sell so you could argue that they're basically turning back the clock the days of shop till you drop are not and I'm afraid those days are not coming back. So these companies like Walmart Target Macy's Kohl's pennies etc even your dollar stores they're not going to be ordering all that much inventory that would cause a major excess of inventory that they would then have to sell off to companies like this or odd lots or Ollie's in other words if those companies wish to stay in business then they're going to be forced to buy those products directly from the manufacturer or supplier just like the big boys already do and here's the problem their businesses aren't exactly set up to do that because of the costs involved they could do it but of course this would mean price hikes across the store and then all the sudden they lose their appeal so it basically kills them in the long run! You have to think about these format of retailers being basically a clearing House for the bigger part of the retail industry. Of course you have tons and tons of retailers that win an item expires otherwise known as pennies out it is literally thrown down the shoot in the garbage they don't ship it to anywhere the only time that Walmart in the gang would be selling pallets of items to these people or even individuals is basically when those items are somewhere between a warehouse or perhaps at the originating Warehouse once it goes into the store it will never leave the store and the only way it will leave the store is in a trash truck. So this also brings up the concept of cash flow what is this company's cash flow or what would be Big lots cash flow? In other words just how much can they realistically buy at a time and how much can they realistically shove through their stores at a time then you have to take an account each store's location so a lot of items that they might be able to go in and buy when a retailer shuts down a location or perhaps a retailer goes completely out of business they show up and buy x amount of the inventory so are they buying a million dollars worth or are they buying $30,000 worth here's the deal the location of those stores some stores would do better than others so then you have a problem to where you shove this inventory in all of your locations only to find out that half of the locations may not be able to sell half of what you've purchased then you're going to take a bath in then the only thing that you can do with that point would be to try it to remove it from the non-selling stores and put it in the stores that it might move problem is the shipping cost of doing this of moving the product around on a continuous basis in order to try and get rid of it at this day and age class more than the Damned items worth in other words I'm saying that there is a huge situation to wear even companies like Big lots or half into throw away a lot of shit that doesn't sell in a certain amount of time the costs are going too high to run these businesses. I've always said that the back end of the store actually cost more to run than the front end of the store this is true don't believe me consult with a local business owner I guarantee they'll tell you the same thing.
I went into a Tuesday Morning in the Salt Lake City area one time and was not impressed and never went back. That store closed even before the company's first bankruptcy.
I used to work at a Tuesday Morning. The music playing is on a set playlist and the same songs would come on at the exact same time each day. It got so irritating. They would make us open in the dead of winter with 6 inches of snow on the ground and we would have zero foot traffic the entire day.
I use to work for Dollar General in the late 00's/early 10's as a 2nd part time job, and I live in the south, we had a few rare ice storms over that time, and as long as we had power we where required to be open, and had to show up for work, forcing me to walk to work because the ice was so thick on the roads(thankfully the store is only 5 minutes from my home), one of those days on my shift we had 3 customers, and the stock truck could not get through, so we were left standing around twiddling our thumbs. However I look at it this way, at least I collected a paycheck for the day I otherwise would not have had if I sat at home watching TV, or playing video games.
I don't think that's true. I can go into a TJ Maxx looking for something specific and be fairly assured of finding several possibilities. TJ Maxx has stuff that most people need. Tuesday Morning, on the other hand, is/was just too ecentric.
I had never been to a Tuesday Morning and finally encountered one on a trip to Galveston, TX a few years ago. My experience was worse than what you showed now! The store was smaller and had even less appealing items on display, even though it was fall and the holidays were approaching. The staff was very nice, so I feel sorry for them now.
I've been shopping at Tuesday Morning for at least 40 years. Until 10 years or so ago, I could usually find terrific bargains on treasures and things I needed, like linens and housewares. For the past few years, though, all I've found is mostly junk. We'll have one store left, in a very affluent part of Cincinnati, after the current closures are complete.
My mom loves Tuesday morning. I told her they were filing for bankruptcy and she was quite upset. She is in her 70’s though so she does not do online shopping and prefers these types of places.
The store in my NC town is rumored to be closing. It’s in a shopping center but off to the far end, disconnected from the other businesses, so there’s no chance of someone just wandering in. They relied on people making trips to go specifically there. I can’t imagine what business will move in to that large, ugly space. About 20 years ago Tuesday Morning was a neat place to pop into every now and then. When I was newly married we’d go there to find interesting, affordable things to furnish our apartment. They’re such depressing stores now.
One opened up in my town about a year or so before the first bankruptcy. It did not survive considering a Big Lots was in the next strip mall, less than a quarter of a mile away. I'm trying to remember if I ever went into it and I think I might have been in it once. I never went back.
I live within very easy walking distance of a shopping center with a Ross, TJ Maxx, and Tuesday Morning. The Tuesday Morning is having a store closing sale, but both Ross and TJ Maxx are running strong.
i haven't been in Tuesday Morning by where i live since i had to do the inventory for it 20 years ago. It had nowhere near the stuff you showed in the video. The store employee said it was just a discount store for the upscale crowd. she was right, you could go to flea markets and antique stores for better deals on the same stuff. plus the one where i live could be in a better location. The Tuesday morning sign is out by the road but the actual store is in a building behind another building that absolutely hides it from the street. I am totally surprised it has lasted this long if it's other store locations are like that
I've stopped a couple times on a random saturday, but didn't find anything i really wanted/needed. Its across the parking lot from Taget. Now that ours is closing i'm even less inclined to stop by.
I always thought of Tuesday Morning as "Rich People Big Lots." The same garbage that Ollies and Big Lots peddles but with higher prices for people that wouldn't be caught dead in a Big Lots.
@@amarie1693so is mine lmao, I think the only reason they've survived this long is because the merchandise they keep outside will attract the occasional person leaving big lots still wanting to do more shopping.
I love Tuesday Morning! I live by the Chandler location and good god they better not close! It’s next door to Homegoods…but I always go there first to find similar…. cheaper stuff. Hope they stay open!
I've heard of Tuesday Morning, but never really shopped there. I've passed by their stores, but wasn't sure what kind of store it was. In my opinion, the name Tuesday Morning sounded like a "fashion clothing" store or a hair salon, the type that sold overpriced clothes that hardly anyone wore or they'd charge $65 for a haircut that the average hairstylist would charge $30 for. After watching this, I wouldn't want to shop there. I agree with another commenter on this video, this store looks like they're stuck in the 80's!
I used to go to the Santa Monica one a couple times a month when my local comic shop was nearby but they’ve long since moved a good distance away. They were pretty standard for a clearance store but once I picked up a glass from a Vegas casino, which seemed incredibly random.
The shopping experience itself is bland and not fun, but I have occasionally found decent stuff at Tuesday Morning. The problem is that the prices are pretty comparable to other non-discount stores so you aren’t really getting much of a deal at all by shopping there.
I went to Tuesday Morning today and they were charging ten bucks for a spray bottle that Target was currently selling for three dollars. You can get some good deals there but it's not consistent.
I go to the TM about once a month. Like you said, I’m usually just tooling around looking for something interesting at a good price. There’s two near me: one small, one large, and both in great locations so usually crowded. I was actually surprised last visit last week to see the small store was closing. I got some towels on clearance. Spotted a nice table but made the mistake of going to eat lunch next for first as it was gone when I went back. I’ve gotten some nice things there and good deals. I’m a woodworker so was thrilled last year when I bought a damaged table for next to nothing and was able to easily and seamlessly repair it! But I can see how that’s not really a sustainable business model for a store!
My wife was a manager of a Tuesday morning store and The corporate office treated their employees like shit, and they actually let people steal from their stores because they tell their managers and the employees that if somebody steals don’t do anything just let them be because they’re afraid of a lawsuit and then that they’ll lose customers if you steal from them, you’re not a customer The corporate office from Tuesday mornings does not have their employee interest. They don’t have their backs if there’s a customer complaint, they automatically take the customer side even know that the manager of the store was right they reprimand the manager for that customer complaint because the manager didn’t give them a discount and then the corporate office reprimand the manager and gives that customer the discount plus to keep them coming back no wonder why Tuesday morning just going out of business
Bankrupt again for the second time. Just like Kmart. Kmart filed in 2002, and then merged with Sears in 2004. Bankrupt again in 2018 but this time took Sears down with them. Some of these retailers are having problems. Bed Bath and Beyond is also in trouble.
I remember going to our local Tuesday Morning when I was a kid in the 90s/early 00s a lot. They had some cool toys like this felt dollhouse set that I slowly collected pieces for over time when we went. Can't say I recall the stores interior ever being particularly memorable compared to Walmart, Target or any other big box retailer at the time
I worked there for 7 years, 9 months before my store shut down on March 28th 2023. They truly didn't change anything since the first bankruptcy. And now the entire corporation is shutting down.
I used to love our local Tuesday morning. It was great to find Xmas gifts, holiday decorations, pool floats, and pet products. However, I will say our local one was much smaller and wayyyy nicer than the one in the vid. It did not have the same feel as a thrift store. Oh well 😢another one bites the dust.
I used to love to buy toys at my local Tuesday Morning, as well as crafting supplies. Then they closed the one nearest me, which was a 15-20 minute drive away. Maybe if the one across town is closing, I will go look for bargains.
A Tuesday Morning opened in my town, lasted maybe a couple of years. I never went in because the exterior looked drab and nondescript and the name gave me no idea what the store was about. I barely identified it as a store, much less as a close-out discounter. Big Lots!/Pic 'n Save and Burlington (when it was Burlington Coat Factory) at least have a somewhat descriptive name, and Marshall's and TJ Maxx look attractive enough on the outside for you to take a closer look. Tuesday Morning spells its name in the plainest sans serif font I have ever seen on a storefront, and it means... what now?
It reminds me a lot of K Mart and their "keep doing the same thing, even if it doesn't work well" philosophy. I didn't know Tuesday Morning sold so many different things and thought it was quite small kitchen and household store and am surprised at the largeness of this location since it seems larger than the footprint of many locations of theirs I've seen.
There was a Tuesday morning that opened in my area in a really nice retail area that only lasted slightly over a year, and I only went inside at once, and was surprised at how expensive and junky the products were
Well there's definitely something to be said about the bargain outlet type format that attempts to appeal either to a higher class group of people or those who just think that they're of a higher class. Frankly it doesn't necessarily work out all that much it's kind of like all these bargain outlet is a messy store and of course they even have banners hanging up all about how they're messing it's just part of the facade of the place. But I can certainly say that when they first came to my town I wasn't really all that impressed because to me they were a bit higher price than Big lots of course over the years I've noticed that Big lots has attempted to move upscale and as a result their prices have went up they're not exactly the cheap store that they used to be which is why most of us when we want cheap things we go to Dollar general family Dollar and or Dollar tree. As far as the junkiness of the products go well what that means is basically they have buyers that don't know what the hell they're doing plain and simple. Of course common knowledge of retail is simply the retail business is much like the entertainment business you can't necessarily keep people happy all the time and you're certainly not going to please everyone. So it's true that what you saw is junkie products or perhaps even 10 people that you know agree that it's junkie products the truth is there's 10 if not 20 other people out there that didn't see it as junkie on the other hand if the entire area believes that it's crap then that location will lose out on business. So the problem with an El cheapo discounter pretending to go upscale particularly not necessarily with the format of the store but definitely with the prices being much higher is that they have to be careful about what area they go into you don't want it too upscale but you don't want it to downscale it can be a bitch to place the store and mistakes are made frequently unfortunately for most companies. Most companies that exist and or have ever existed they all have at least one location if not five locations that should have never been they've all made those mistakes and here's the problem if you get management that does not care where they're put in stores then those problems will be repeated very very frequently!
My wife and I went to one a few months back and it was randomly closed on a weekday at like 11am. A handwritten sign on the door just read CLOSED TODAY.
So the first time I want to these they MOSTLY had stuff from Target, and the discounts were pretty great. I watched as they gradually got more and more no-name merch where you have to research to see if it's even a quality item. That experience, having to product research everything, at that point you feel like you're already shopping online anyway. When it was all stuff I could recognize from other retailers as being at least decent, so I could just SHOP.
I went to a store we saw in the north valley after visiting a different store (so just a random visit to look for "treasure"). There were no signs about that store closing but I did notice they had a 10% off everything offer. My thoughts were that it was well overpriced for the items that were in the store. Its somewhere I used to go to see what British foods etc theyd picked up to grab myself a bargain but even the stuff they had on "sale" was well over the price Id expect to pay. Also my main take from that particualr store was the intense buzzing coming from somewhere in the electrical lights. It wasnt just one as it seemed to emanate on each side of the store, to the point of being painful if you stayed there for very long. Im guessing they must only employ hard of hearing staff there as it would have driven my mad being near it more that 20 minutes. I left the store without a purchase which summed up my disappointment really.
Gonna miss my hometown TM in Maryland so much, but it’s true lately things have been more hit and miss. Used to be able to find stellar cotton bath towels or 100% cotton bedding or nice pillows for a deal, but now everything is cheap polyester. Still, it was also my go-to place for off-the-wall gifts my family depends on me getting them, so will be sad to see them go. The only two stores left in the state are in the most bizarre out of the way places.
Let me tell you something. I'm an assistant manager at the Titusville store in Florida. Our store is looking amazing. We get compliments all the time about how organized the merchandise is. A store can look fabulous if the employees love their store. Hmmm? I guess we loved our store and are devastated at losing our pride and joy. Not happy😥
I've heard too many horror stories about Tuesday Morning stores and how they treat the part-time employees. Subpar looking stores may be the result of employees burnt out with bad treatment.
Well Acer owns the Packard Bell brand name now, and it's still sold in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East filling the same roll Gateway does here in North America as an outsourced ultra budget brand. So it honestly would not surprise me if Acer brought back the eMachines brand name, and slapped it on an outsourced ultra cheap generic LCD monitor at some point in the future. 😅
The store wasn’t empty because it was closing. Their stores were practically empty as the pandemic was easing up. I’ve bought a few things there over time, but it was never a place to go with a specific goal.
My wife used to drag me to TM all the time and none of the locations here in Vegas looked like that. They were usually much smalle and over loaded with product. That was a whole different dog with a different set of fleas. Still, we found a lot of great deals there. The rug under my desk right now came from TM and we paid about a third of what we would have paid elsewhere. It's held up for over 10 years which is more than I can say for any other rug we have,
For several years, 2000s I swear I honestly thought this retail chain was women's fashions, discount clothes. FL has many mid range, low end clothing retail.
the only thing i've ever bought from a tuesday morning was this weird knock off peter pan tea set that had the quote from the book about dying as a key part of its design. it was creepy so of course i still have it
The only time I went to Tuesday Morning was during Christmas. The rest of the time it was pointless. There was a really nice Tuesday Morning in a brand new commercial space that made me actually want to shop there. Every other one I've seen has been like those shown in the videos, dark and depressing. Unfortunately that particular store closed 2 years ago. I'd rather go to Home Goods / TJMaxx for the kind of shopping they're designed for. Their stores are cleaner, well lit, organized and you can find some random good deals occasionally.
All the Tuesday Morning stores in Colorado are closing. I've been to some of them over the years. Bought a few things but they've never been a "must go to" store, much more of a, "Oh, there's a Tuesday Morning store, might as well check it out."
My local store is among those on the closing list after being open for a few years (IIRc they took over some long vacant space that was once part of a Goody's clothing store) . It doesn't look much different from the video, and it was often hard to tell where the store ended and the stockroom began. I never bought anything there, but wondered around a few times out of curiosity. Apparently the Packard Bell brand never died out in Europe (the story is that the brand didn't have the sub-par quality reputation it had in the US so it stuck around) and they must have figured that by now in the US, people have forgotten about the poor quality and/or feel nostalgia. I actually saw a PB branded phone holder and webcam at one of the department stores at the local mall (which, despite being a mall and having seen better days, is not dead)
Woah, the Tuesday morning closest to me is in a nice shopping center and the inside is very nice and large! The front is set up to where it looks fancy and expensive but it’s not, and then the further back you go the more clearancey and cheapy it gets. It’s almost set up to look like World Market, like you won’t be able to afford the stuff except you can lol
As far as I know they’re having a third party (Gordon Brothers) to liquidate the fixtures. And there was a shortage of gingerbread house kits in 2020 so now retailers are way overcompensating. 🙄
They fired Gordman Brothers and got permission to handle the store closing sales themselves. This might account for the lack of bold liquidation sale signs.
The store my me closed a while back. It was in a newly build building and they were the first tenant and was next to a Best Buy. I went in when they first open with someone and again one other time and did buy something, but that was it. The name never made sense as when I lived in another city and first saw one of their stores, it was never open. I really thought maybe they were only open on a Tuesday Morning and I was at work so would miss it. The fixtures are more industrial then regular retail shelving, so their could be a better market for them and could sell at a higher price than just offering them at store closings.
My local came and gone and it’s location flipped twice. It’s an awful location between a dollar tree and Panera. There’s a rite aid and an empty storefront also in that strip
I think for starters they need to change their name. I am a 55 yo guy who’s never been in one of these….and I actually thought these stores sold plus size women’s clothing. Maybe they would get more traffic with a name like “No Frills Retail” or something to that effect.
In 2018 I saw a help wanted sign at one in illinois. I stopped to talk to the manager and they said that it was for warehouse/receiving... but would require you to get in a 7a, then open the store at 10a, be the only worker for the first 2 hours, then back to the stocking of items from the dock for the rest of your shift. They were offering $8.25/hr. I literally laughed and the manager said "yea, nobody in their right mind would agree to this." For reference, the Panda Express down the road was starting cashiers at 50% more without the tasks of unloading trucks, stocking pallets, being a key-holder, and working alone.
The Tuesday Mornings where I live, went from selling junk to selling straight goods on the shelves. Very expensive goods. They carried a lot of stuff I really wanted, but their prices were the same at 40% + off, as they were at Target or Home Goods, or even at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Just WAY out of my price range.....although I did splurge once and bought a small ceramic mixing bowl for $15. I bought it because it was a special type, and a type I have been looking for, for many years. So I grabbed it. But yeah, the first time I went into a Tuesday Morning years and years ago, it looked like a dump truck had backed up and just dumped a load of garbage into an empty store. The most recent one I went into was clean, bright, cheery, and was fully stocked with tons of neat stuff that was brand new..........but extremely high priced for what they were. I've been meaning to go back, because I just love window shopping in there........but I guess its probably closed by now. I will have to check just out of curiosity now.
Shopped at my local TM for over 20 years; good for housewares, gifts, craft materials, gourmet foods and snacks, and, yes, treasure hunting. Based on changes in store layout and inventory, it was obvious that corporate didn't know what the hell they were doing.
Just never felt a need to shop here even when it was popular. It's the same stuff as Pier 1, Cost Plus, Ross, TJMaxx, HomeGoods and Big Lots. So much market saturation in the off price category.
This is honestly the first time hearing about this store, despite having so many locations, I'd never seen it. ...just googled it, there's two of them in my city and I've never seen it? Wow Anyway, great video!
I just noticed a Tuesday Morning location here in Louisville, near an Ollie's and Harbor Freight I stopped at the other day. I noticed it was very bare looking, possibly entirely empty. I didn't know whether it was in the process of opening or closing. Now I know. I may stop by again and see if there's still anything left. I'd love to see videos about Ollie's or Harbor Freight. Harbor Freight was a laughingstock for a very long time---a place where you could go to get tools as long as your life or your livelihood didn't depend on those tools. They had good deals on consumable items but their tools were to be avoided, especially power tools. All of that has changed now. They now have a good, better, best strategy where they still have their lower-end brands but are also selling some premium stuff under new brands they've created. They were known for their coupons and then they did away with them and seriously upset some customers, including me. Now they have brought the coupons back but only in digital form. For a while in 2021, they were rapidly moving away from their customer base by seemingly ditching all of their lower-end tools and jacking their prices up as much as possible. Due to a lot of customer outcry, they have since reversed course and are trying to still offer good deals and promote some of their lower-end brands.
They're trying to balance between clearance prices and shipping inventory to other stores. It does look like it's in the 30-40% off days of a closing sale. Those are the cheapest shelves you can buy for retail. No, they're slowly bleeding out. Probably won't last thru this current recession we're in.
The company will probably continue to dwindle downward in store count over the coming years until, like Sears and K-Mart, they reach the point of irrelevancy.
UPDATE: On May 2, 2023 Tuesday Morning announced they are closing all remaining stores and are going out of business.
Two for two now with tuesday morning and bbb
@@animeshock2006 Let's make it three for three with a Big Lots bankruptcy early 2024.
Goodbye and good riddance to bad rubbish!
At the end of June, Tuesday Morning asked to convert its Chapter 11 to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy (total liquidation), which will be considered by the bankruptcy court on July 27th. This has probably been inevitable since the May 2nd announcement, but it seems like they waited about two months to pull that trigger in hopes of someone coming in to rescue them...
@gordontaylor2815 In my opinion, they shouldn't have bothered with Chapter 11 honestly as that just basically delayed the inevitable; they obviously should have just filed for Chapter 7 altogether right away in the first place. No reorganization case, nothing. It would have put the company out of its misery sooner.
Former employee. The corporate bosses never listened to employee suggestions on what could have been done to improve daily operations. Corporate would only come in to yell about numbers . They were individuals that I had never actually worked with in the store . Tuesday was severely under the public’s radar due to very little advertising and almost non-existing online store presence. They had a failed attempt at a rewards program.The stores wouldn’t stick to its own company exchange and return policy. If someone was a big enough tyrant they would get all money back on returns way past 30 days . (Months) sometimes it was over $100.00 in cash.
At this point they may not make it to Tuesday afternoon
(Rimshot)
🤣
LOL! Apparently, Tuesday is really just Monday's ugly sibling.
THIS MADE ME LAUGH MORE THAN IT SHOULD
Lol
How can you not have been in there since the last video? Certainly you need a "Live, Love, Laugh" sign!
Who needs a sign? The true believers just stencil it right on the wall now.
W€stern wmen love that stupid slogan
@@chm9935 I myself cannot stand it. It's really corny, cringe worthy, and absolutely lame. What were they thinking?
Them freaking signs are starting to flood Thrift Stores !!
@@stellamcwick8455 lol!!! Yeah, they do. Although chad and tyrone dont care
I think what did Tuesday Morning in isn’t a change in shopper mentality. People still go to stores looking for bargains (hence the appeal of TJMaxx, Ross, Burlington, Big Lots, etc.). But most of those are known for people scoring great deals on things people actually need and use (clothing, furniture, cookware, etc.). The problem with Tuesday Morning is that they buy a lot of schlock-tchotchkes and white elephants that no one needs. About 15-20 years ago they had a TV ad campaign where they would show a product that they claimed they had the previous week, and then they scolded people for not coming in to shop. The tagline was something like “Didn’t get here last week. Better get here next week.” Veiled threats aside, the products they showed to entice us were usually something with no practical purpose. A porcelain gnome comes to mind. It just wasn’t a compelling reason to go. They could have turned this around by inviting social media influencers to come shop and then “haul” their purchases online… but they seem firmly stuck in the 1980s.
yeah I still see videos all the time of people showing off their finds from tjamxx and marshalls -- not tuesday morning!
yeah I still see videos all the time of people showing off their finds from tjamxx and marshalls -- not tuesday morning!
Yep. That, and at least in the case of my location, they raised their prices. I used to wade through the aisles of out-of-fashion toys and mug warmers (or whatever) because I’d always come home with some kind of fancy body scrub, or a candle, gourmet olives, maybe European chocolate or cookies…. But they stopped giving good deals on those things. They started knocking maybe a buck off of full retail for these little luxuries. So after several trips of leaving empty handed I pretty much forgot the store existed.
The only time I was in a Tuesday Morning, it was to get something advertised in the current week's ad (A cat tree). I looked around, didn't find it. Asked a worker. He didn't know what I was talking about. Showed him the ad, said they didn't have them. I left and never went back.
@Drew Conway
The stores you are comparing it too are different because clothes make up the vast majority of those stores
Home Goods is a TJ maxx company ...but I bet its a small portion of their business compared to the clothes that they sell
The problem with treasure hunting is nowadays with the internet in our pockets we can compare online to see if a price is actually good or not. And these stores have lots of weird brand electronics so when you go to try to look for reviews you can't find out anything so then are hesitant to buy from unknown brands. At least with online brands online we can look at reviews to assist with decision making.
“What do you mean? I know a genuine ’Panaphonics’, when I see one!”
I found it very funny how they filed bankruptcy on a Tuesday morning! Also the store I went into which was in Skokie Illinois that is also closing was the exact same with literally no store closing signs in it and it looked like a thrift store.
Is it still in the (very) old Jewel store? Always looked dumpy from the outside
My store didn’t look like that, but I and my team cared about it and made it look good. We relocated from a dump five years ago this month, and at the end of this month we’re closing. They stopped sending us trucks at the end of January-3 weeks before announcing the bankruptcy. They knew what they were planning. And yes our merchandise selection the last few years has gone way down.
I worked at tuesday morning for 6 years and we took extreme pride in keeping it as beautiful as possible with the ever changing emails from corporate, but us as im assuming your location had was the regular customers, the store in this video does not represent the rest of our stores, thank you also for taking pride in your store while it lasted.
I didn’t like the video it doesn’t represent all the Tuesday Morning. I lived in West Texas and their location was a dumped. Then COVID hit and I moved to to the DFW and their location was awesome.
I’ve been to two local locations of Tuesday Morning in the SF Bay Area that have since closed. Your description of bland is quite true. Even when fully stocked, both of those location were filled with crap that no one was buying. The store actually looks like one of those new stores that sells returned merch from Amazon, Costco, and Target.
I haven't thought about Tuesday Morning in YEARS. I always found them super depressing to walk through. I lol'd at that Brookstone keyboard XD
Used to work at Tuesday morning, about 60-70% of the money we made was off 10 customers that would regularly come in and each would spend around $500 every week. I figured they were all crazy lol. One of them was an* interior designer
I went to my local Tuesday Morning yesterday looking for a dozen laundry baskets(don't ask). As far as I know it's not on the closure list, but it looked like a thrift store that had fallen on hard times. They only had two baskets so I ended up going to Kroger and buying what I needed, and it actually cost less than the ones at Tuesday Morning.
So ... ummm ... *clears throat* ... why were you looking for a dozen laundry baskets?
A dozen laundry baskets? No, I'm not asking.
where's the body, Michael? 🧐
Michael, why did you need a dozen laundry baskets? 🤔
Should'a shopped at the dollar tree. Could'a got your 12 laundry baskets for $15!
Back in the day, my father had got me my own landline for my bedroom.
This turned out to be an old phone number for a Tuesday Morning that had either moved or closed down relatively recently, and I'd often get phone calls intended to reach them:
"Hello, is this Tuesday morning?"
Should be needless to say, as a young teen, I had plenty of fun with this.
Just a warning, that Packard Bell keyboard is in name only. The Packard Bell from our youth died a long, long time ago. It’s owned by a Dutch company, that itself is owned by Acer.
My first computer was also a Packard Bell. My dad bought it for my family in 1994, when I was 10. It was a 486 with Windows 3.11.
He paid way too much for it at a now long defunct electronics store owned by Tandy/RadioShack known as McDuff Electronics.
There was a Tuesday Morning near me in California that closed in the last few months as well. I used to go there for jigsaw puzzles which seemed to be perpetually on sale for ~50% off. Our store was in a smaller location which resulted in far narrower aisles and a dark claustrophobic feeling.
Yeah the local one where I used to live was in a strip mall and was like a quarter of the size of the one in this video. They were really great for getting name-brand expensive toys during the holidays for a decent deal.
I never been in one of their stores. Judging from your footage I would have to agree with you that it seems like an over priced thrift store.
Well but technically stories like Ollie's bargain outlet functions off of the same basic idea.
You know it's pretty much you all the sudden decide you need an air fryer so you're going to stop by Ollie's and literally go in there and hunt for that particular item and of course whatever bargain they may have available on it.
Odd lots otherwise known as Big lots has functioned off of that concept for multiple decades dating back to the 70s.
So to me I don't really think that their story is really any worse than any other close out retailer.
Now I will say there might be something to be said about the selection of items in the store,
I mean if they're not placing a lot of emphasis on having air fryers vacuum cleaners maybe a few odds and ends for your car versus they want you to buy funny shaped chairs for the kids then yeah okay that's where they are screwing things up and it's not very good...
Of course I will say that a lot of companies tend to just buy what they can get for cheap that they figured they can mark up so perhaps the company needs to evaluate its product buyers.
And then of course if they have regional product buyers you know they need to re-examine them and find out what they know or what they don't know because that could easily be a problem if you're buying products that notoriously do not sell well in a certain area then it's kind of dumb to buy them on clothes out thinking that you two can sell them even if the price is 20% lower than it would be at the conventional retailer it's either people want those products or they don't you can't force them to take those products just because you put a lower price on them.
And I will say that there's a whole host of retailers that have failed to adjust to this they're still stuck back in the 90s if not early to mid-2000s in the full swing of the bubble economy people had or at least seemingly had money hanging out of their ass and they went in and bought nearly anything they didn't really care that it was crap they didn't need.
I can remember all through the decade of the 90s stories like de Jones and of course just about every format of the dollar store there was Ben's filled with literally Jack but they also seem to sell a hell of a lot of it that's why they continuously carried it.
At some point the crash happened and all of it was finally recognized as bloat the 90s and even up to the mid-2000s had a terrible bloat in retail a large portion of that merchandise I'm pretty certain is what's floating around and half your clothes out stores are even your flea markets by now I mean it's still kind of in play they never really got rid of half of it I mean there's been some videos here on UA-cam about retailers that left warehouses just full of shit.
And I will do that they'll write stuff off and then they'll just straight up abandon it and of course all of this is a huge sign that there's an income deficiency across the population they can't sell things even good stuff that isn't necessarily junk.
Seriously. They make TJ Maxx and Ross look glamorous in comparison.
My ex-wife used to work at one of these stores as a manager. The discount prices on top of her employee discount was very nice for the things we did get. They are very hit-and-miss with the stuff that you may actually want to buy but when you do have certain items come through it's like hitting a gold mind.
i wish my mind was gold
I used to go to Tuesday Morning quite often and find craft supplies, dog toys, Christmas stocking stuffers, and other random things. Most of ours closed in my area, but they were always packed with inventory and customers when I was there. They were in expensive retail areas though & closed. I still miss them. (I’m in Virginia Beach.)
Well I will say that it's very common of members of the public standing on the outside of any given store to make the observation that the store was always busy followed by a closed that's a common scene amongst the public they think that just because the store is busy there shouldn't have been any trouble.
Of course this is a general statement I'm not trying to say that that's what you yourself are implying.
As far as expansive retail areas go,
I don't necessarily think that that would have hurt their business per se simply because they become part of the variety offered in that area a lot of it I think has to come down to the fact that perhaps their products were not tailored to what most people in the area would care to buy a lot of retailers have this problem I'm certain they're not the only one.
Of course you also have the situation to where chain stores even some of the best performing locations can fall subject to store closure if the bigger company decides to close stores of that region.
I watched this happen in the early '90s with Kmart and of course we saw it again through the years with Kmart and other assorted retailers.
did they would be decent performing stores but because the company was restructuring and they said that we're going to close ex number of locations they would seemingly at random just pick an area and say it's underperforming and then they would go through and just close all the stores I would argue bad management Plato factor in that and of course this could be a problem plaguing this particular company bad management is not nor will it ever be a New concept.
@@American-Motors-Corporation Kmart closed all their locations in Kazoo in 2004 or 2005 before they had problems surprised that the 3 remaining Kmarts are still open in the US. AtHome took the Kmart space where I lived never been to since that isn't my type of place. Dick's Sporting Goods took the other former Kmart place in 2015 across the street from Crossroads Mall , I have no idea of the 3RD Kmart what is there now on the east side of the city.
@@benb8407 okay Mart did have problems back then, in fact since the late seventies and through the decade of the 80s up through the deities they were affected by bad management, bankruptcies, embezzlement problems as well as massive expansion programmes that cost them tons and tons of money.
And then of course their final big blow was when they purchased Sears!
Yeah I know a lot of people do think that Sears buy Kmart No in fact it was the other way around.
Well they basically figured that if the two companies merged at the time it would give them a total of 5% of the retail market which happened in 2005!
Kmart has been plagued with problems for decades dating back to the seventies, for the first half of the 70s their major problem was they failed to reinvest in the company of course they paid a high dividend on their stock which was great for shareholders but it was terrible for the company.
Their major problem also came in the form of they refuse to invest in the technology necessary to standardize modernize and streamlinetheir logistics operations see this is where Walmart pulled ahead of them they put the money into the computer system is necessary to make the back of the store run very efficiently whereas Kmart refused to do so.
And that was a product of late 70's and Early 80's!
@@benb8407Every Kmart location in Las Vegas is still empty except for one that's splitn between At home and Seafood City
We had local chains like Tuesday Morning in New England that went out of business in the 1990s or early 2000s. It's hard to compete with larger chains and on-line retailers that can buy the same stuff cheaper in bulk. Tuesday Morning is probably a victim of the logistics issues happening with shipping containers.
I interviewed for an accounting position at their corporate office in 2016 after graduating college. I tried contacting them a few times after and no one could ever even give me a notice that I didn’t get the job. Very unprofessional. Looking back I’m glad they never gave me an offer lol
Tuesday morning was my account as I manage their purchase orders for our supply chain management department. Their buyers are always hard to get ahold of whenever I called thier corporate phone line. They always would prefer to email back 2 to 3 days later. I'm not surprised that nobody got back to you if I'm having issues contacting their corporate number to get ahold of someone in Purchasing
We all dodged a bullet on this one, guys.
We had a TM pop up in my town around 25 year's ago. And it didn't last long. For back then they marketed themselves as a discount retailer. And would have weekly flyers saying this item is regularly $79.99 but now $19.99 , this item is regularly $139.999 but now $34.99. And you could find the exact item brand new in a nearby store everyday price , Cheaper than their ((discounted)) price.🤦
This Tuesday Morning looks way different than my local store. Ours is packed full of merchandise and far more claustrophobic.
Same here! It’s the only store that has closed that I miss.
Tuesday Morning had a following. There was consistent traffic at the store in the strip mall where I am (a relatively well-off area) .
I'm sure some locations do much better than others.
They seemed to have smaller stores that worked in areas where the big boxes weren’t welcome. Back when my family was at the height of their Christmas stocking suffer mania the place was a lifesaver. All the locations that I frequented closed by 2020.
The one in our town was great even though it was smaller than others and in a well-kept, older strip mall. They had a fantastic selection of stuff and friendly workers. I purchased all kinds of reasonably priced, high quality items from them through the years including furniture, children's toys, books, arts and crafts supplies, luggage, rugs, kitchen goods, bedding, beauty products, home organization items and office supplies. It was my go to for birthday and Christmas gifts. It stayed fairly busy. I was sad to see them go.
Daaaang my mother loves Tuesday Morning. I spent so much of my free time in childhood hanging around Tuesday Morning and Marshalls
I’m gonna miss this store. My mom and I went there a lot. There was always cute stuff
I briefly worked for Tuesday Morning over 15 years ago, and my store was in a state of flux while I was there. It was bad enough that the manager of the other location in my little town was called in to help us straighten up. That store eventually folded (after I left) and the retail space it inhabited is still sitting bare. I assumed it was just this particular Tuesday Morning but maybe not. I had never thought about it but you're probably right: this kind of retail is probably outdated now, especially after covid.
The thing is bargain hunting isn't outdated. Amazon bin stores, or bin stores are booming and growing big. People like digging and find the deals. Look into it
@0:55 I think what probably happened is a lot of that inventory got distributed to other stores to fill them out. It's probably why it looks like that so early on.
Packard bell ?!? Omg nostalgia haha it also makes me think of my family's first gateway computer in the iconic cow print box 😂
They may have already sold the fixtures. They are very well made and hold alot of weight. When one closed in 2010 because they lost their lease I paid 50 bucks a section for the rolling ones. Still have them but I used them for my booth I had back them at the antique mall
I have always preferred Tuesday Morning to other discounted stores like Big Lots and Ross. Years ago, they used to be the only place that had higher-end items at overstock prices. I know things have changed but I think I preferred my local TM because it didn't lean into the excessively-trendy stuff nearly as much. Then again, I live in a college town, so many the girls just snatched it up quicker, idk. But my store is on the closing list (of course it is) so I guess I need to pop in again and see if there's anything I can't live without. I could use a rug, honestly.
Of course another thing to be said about the selection of inventory and a lot of these places, is simply with the bigger retailers scaling back there's most likely going to be a lot less to choose from and then of course you have flation to battle at the same time so to be honest a lot of these companies going forward will definitely experience problems most of which will most likely cause their businesses to contract to say the least otherwise many of them are going to go out of business.
This would include even the little palette businesses that I had mentioned in my previous comment.
If the retailers particularly that of the big boys are scaling back what they're carrying which they are and we've all seen the obvious signs such as they're eliminating shelvings or moving existing shelving over this is why the aisles are getting wider they're trying to minimize what they carry and they're only trying to focus on items that they are certain people will buy.
So basically the retail market is adjusting it's moving towards putting a lot less emphasis on the wants and more on the needs.
So yes they will carry a lot of items that you don't need that's still going to be there however they're trying to hone in on what products would sell the most frequently kind of like department stores of the old days that if they carried items above 50 or above $100 they didn't have an abundance of those items because those items were not expected to sell all that quickly instead they placed emphasis on the common items that were below $50 that would sell so you could argue that they're basically turning back the clock the days of shop till you drop are not and I'm afraid those days are not coming back.
So these companies like Walmart Target Macy's Kohl's pennies etc even your dollar stores they're not going to be ordering all that much inventory that would cause a major excess of inventory that they would then have to sell off to companies like this or odd lots or Ollie's in other words if those companies wish to stay in business then they're going to be forced to buy those products directly from the manufacturer or supplier just like the big boys already do and here's the problem their businesses aren't exactly set up to do that because of the costs involved they could do it but of course this would mean price hikes across the store and then all the sudden they lose their appeal so it basically kills them in the long run!
You have to think about these format of retailers being basically a clearing House for the bigger part of the retail industry.
Of course you have tons and tons of retailers that win an item expires otherwise known as pennies out it is literally thrown down the shoot in the garbage they don't ship it to anywhere the only time that Walmart in the gang would be selling pallets of items to these people or even individuals is basically when those items are somewhere between a warehouse or perhaps at the originating Warehouse once it goes into the store it will never leave the store and the only way it will leave the store is in a trash truck.
So this also brings up the concept of cash flow what is this company's cash flow or what would be Big lots cash flow?
In other words just how much can they realistically buy at a time and how much can they realistically shove through their stores at a time then you have to take an account each store's location so a lot of items that they might be able to go in and buy when a retailer shuts down a location or perhaps a retailer goes completely out of business they show up and buy x amount of the inventory so are they buying a million dollars worth or are they buying $30,000 worth here's the deal the location of those stores some stores would do better than others so then you have a problem to where you shove this inventory in all of your locations only to find out that half of the locations may not be able to sell half of what you've purchased then you're going to take a bath in then the only thing that you can do with that point would be to try it to remove it from the non-selling stores and put it in the stores that it might move problem is the shipping cost of doing this of moving the product around on a continuous basis in order to try and get rid of it at this day and age class more than the Damned items worth in other words I'm saying that there is a huge situation to wear even companies like Big lots or half into throw away a lot of shit that doesn't sell in a certain amount of time the costs are going too high to run these businesses.
I've always said that the back end of the store actually cost more to run than the front end of the store this is true don't believe me consult with a local business owner I guarantee they'll tell you the same thing.
Yes, used to find items from England
and Italy. Now everything is made in
China. Price over quality items reigns.
@@sueh8478 used to find such beautiful Murano glass items and things like that. No more.
I went into a Tuesday Morning in the Salt Lake City area one time and was not impressed and never went back. That store closed even before the company's first bankruptcy.
I live in SLC, and there's a store right near me that's currently in the process of closing.
I used to work at a Tuesday Morning. The music playing is on a set playlist and the same songs would come on at the exact same time each day. It got so irritating. They would make us open in the dead of winter with 6 inches of snow on the ground and we would have zero foot traffic the entire day.
I use to work for Dollar General in the late 00's/early 10's as a 2nd part time job, and I live in the south, we had a few rare ice storms over that time, and as long as we had power we where required to be open, and had to show up for work, forcing me to walk to work because the ice was so thick on the roads(thankfully the store is only 5 minutes from my home), one of those days on my shift we had 3 customers, and the stock truck could not get through, so we were left standing around twiddling our thumbs. However I look at it this way, at least I collected a paycheck for the day I otherwise would not have had if I sat at home watching TV, or playing video games.
“That’s not how people shop anymore”
TJ Maxx would like a word with you.
I don't think that's true. I can go into a TJ Maxx looking for something specific and be fairly assured of finding several possibilities. TJ Maxx has stuff that most people need. Tuesday Morning, on the other hand, is/was just too ecentric.
@@russcannon6725 TJ Maxx stores are also usually nicer.
I have only been in them twice in my life. We have had one in our area for 20 something years.
I had never been to a Tuesday Morning and finally encountered one on a trip to Galveston, TX a few years ago. My experience was worse than what you showed now! The store was smaller and had even less appealing items on display, even though it was fall and the holidays were approaching. The staff was very nice, so I feel sorry for them now.
2:36 You know that chair’s eyeballing the exit
There was a Tuesday morning close to me but it closed like 5ish years ago. They oddly enough weren't open everyday and I never saw anyone in there.
I've been shopping at Tuesday Morning for at least 40 years. Until 10 years or so ago, I could usually find terrific bargains on treasures and things I needed, like linens and housewares. For the past few years, though, all I've found is mostly junk. We'll have one store left, in a very affluent part of Cincinnati, after the current closures are complete.
My mom loves Tuesday morning. I told her they were filing for bankruptcy and she was quite upset.
She is in her 70’s though so she does not do online shopping and prefers these types of places.
The store in my NC town is rumored to be closing. It’s in a shopping center but off to the far end, disconnected from the other businesses, so there’s no chance of someone just wandering in. They relied on people making trips to go specifically there. I can’t imagine what business will move in to that large, ugly space.
About 20 years ago Tuesday Morning was a neat place to pop into every now and then. When I was newly married we’d go there to find interesting, affordable things to furnish our apartment. They’re such depressing stores now.
Maybe a Big Lots or Ollie's will take over that space...
One opened up in my town about a year or so before the first bankruptcy. It did not survive considering a Big Lots was in the next strip mall, less than a quarter of a mile away.
I'm trying to remember if I ever went into it and I think I might have been in it once. I never went back.
I live within very easy walking distance of a shopping center with a Ross, TJ Maxx, and Tuesday Morning. The Tuesday Morning is having a store closing sale, but both Ross and TJ Maxx are running strong.
i haven't been in Tuesday Morning by where i live since i had to do the inventory for it 20 years ago. It had nowhere near the stuff you showed in the video. The store employee said it was just a discount store for the upscale crowd. she was right, you could go to flea markets and antique stores for better deals on the same stuff. plus the one where i live could be in a better location. The Tuesday morning sign is out by the road but the actual store is in a building behind another building that absolutely hides it from the street. I am totally surprised it has lasted this long if it's other store locations are like that
I've stopped a couple times on a random saturday, but didn't find anything i really wanted/needed. Its across the parking lot from Taget. Now that ours is closing i'm even less inclined to stop by.
I always thought of Tuesday Morning as "Rich People Big Lots." The same garbage that Ollies and Big Lots peddles but with higher prices for people that wouldn't be caught dead in a Big Lots.
Pretty funny that our local Tuesday morning (was) located right next to a Big Lots lol
@@amarie1693so is mine lmao, I think the only reason they've survived this long is because the merchandise they keep outside will attract the occasional person leaving big lots still wanting to do more shopping.
We don't have these stores where I live, they seem to be basically the same as Winners/Marshalls/Homesense but those stores always appear busy.
I love Tuesday Morning! I live by the Chandler location and good god they better not close! It’s next door to Homegoods…but I always go there first to find similar…. cheaper stuff. Hope they stay open!
I'm old enough to remember when Lauren Bacall used to do ads for them in the 80s. I've never been in one, we never had them close to me.
I've heard of Tuesday Morning, but never really shopped there. I've passed by their stores, but wasn't sure what kind of store it was. In my opinion, the name Tuesday Morning sounded like a "fashion clothing" store or a hair salon, the type that sold overpriced clothes that hardly anyone wore or they'd charge $65 for a haircut that the average hairstylist would charge $30 for. After watching this, I wouldn't want to shop there. I agree with another commenter on this video, this store looks like they're stuck in the 80's!
I used to go to the Santa Monica one a couple times a month when my local comic shop was nearby but they’ve long since moved a good distance away. They were pretty standard for a clearance store but once I picked up a glass from a Vegas casino, which seemed incredibly random.
The shopping experience itself is bland and not fun, but I have occasionally found decent stuff at Tuesday Morning. The problem is that the prices are pretty comparable to other non-discount stores so you aren’t really getting much of a deal at all by shopping there.
Yes. This is Tuesday Morning's biggest problem. Why go there if you're not going to a consistently good deal???
I went to Tuesday Morning today and they were charging ten bucks for a spray bottle that Target was currently selling for three dollars. You can get some good deals there but it's not consistent.
I go to the TM about once a month. Like you said, I’m usually just tooling around looking for something interesting at a good price. There’s two near me: one small, one large, and both in great locations so usually crowded. I was actually surprised last visit last week to see the small store was closing. I got some towels on clearance. Spotted a nice table but made the mistake of going to eat lunch next for first as it was gone when I went back. I’ve gotten some nice things there and good deals. I’m a woodworker so was thrilled last year when I bought a damaged table for next to nothing and was able to easily and seamlessly repair it! But I can see how that’s not really a sustainable business model for a store!
My wife was a manager of a Tuesday morning store and The corporate office treated their employees like shit, and they actually let people steal from their stores because they tell their managers and the employees that if somebody steals don’t do anything just let them be because they’re afraid of a lawsuit and then that they’ll lose customers if you steal from them, you’re not a customer
The corporate office from Tuesday mornings does not have their employee interest. They don’t have their backs if there’s a customer complaint, they automatically take the customer side even know that the manager of the store was right they reprimand the manager for that customer complaint because the manager didn’t give them a discount and then the corporate office reprimand the manager and gives that customer the discount plus to keep them coming back no wonder why Tuesday morning just going out of business
Bankrupt again for the second time. Just like Kmart. Kmart filed in 2002, and then merged with Sears in 2004. Bankrupt again in 2018 but this time took Sears down with them. Some of these retailers are having problems. Bed Bath and Beyond is also in trouble.
I remember going to our local Tuesday Morning when I was a kid in the 90s/early 00s a lot. They had some cool toys like this felt dollhouse set that I slowly collected pieces for over time when we went. Can't say I recall the stores interior ever being particularly memorable compared to Walmart, Target or any other big box retailer at the time
I have bought my favorite lamps and rugs from Tuesday. Great prices on towels. We have one left in my town. Better go up and check it out.
I worked there for 7 years, 9 months before my store shut down on March 28th 2023. They truly didn't change anything since the first bankruptcy. And now the entire corporation is shutting down.
There is a TM near me in oregon and they are also closing. Ive bought a few things here and there but they can't compete with ross
I used to love our local Tuesday morning. It was great to find Xmas gifts, holiday decorations, pool floats, and pet products. However, I will say our local one was much smaller and wayyyy nicer than the one in the vid. It did not have the same feel as a thrift store. Oh well 😢another one bites the dust.
I used to love to buy toys at my local Tuesday Morning, as well as crafting supplies. Then they closed the one nearest me, which was a 15-20 minute drive away. Maybe if the one across town is closing, I will go look for bargains.
I do notice a distinct lack of toys and anything pop culture related in these stores, is that why places like Ollie's have braced the storm better?
6:12 I love how it looks like one of those hello pillows says hell on it.
A Tuesday Morning opened in my town, lasted maybe a couple of years. I never went in because the exterior looked drab and nondescript and the name gave me no idea what the store was about. I barely identified it as a store, much less as a close-out discounter. Big Lots!/Pic 'n Save and Burlington (when it was Burlington Coat Factory) at least have a somewhat descriptive name, and Marshall's and TJ Maxx look attractive enough on the outside for you to take a closer look. Tuesday Morning spells its name in the plainest sans serif font I have ever seen on a storefront, and it means... what now?
It reminds me a lot of K Mart and their "keep doing the same thing, even if it doesn't work well" philosophy. I didn't know Tuesday Morning sold so many different things and thought it was quite small kitchen and household store and am surprised at the largeness of this location since it seems larger than the footprint of many locations of theirs I've seen.
There was a Tuesday morning that opened in my area in a really nice retail area that only lasted slightly over a year, and I only went inside at once, and was surprised at how expensive and junky the products were
Well there's definitely something to be said about the bargain outlet type format that attempts to appeal either to a higher class group of people or those who just think that they're of a higher class.
Frankly it doesn't necessarily work out all that much it's kind of like all these bargain outlet is a messy store and of course they even have banners hanging up all about how they're messing it's just part of the facade of the place.
But I can certainly say that when they first came to my town I wasn't really all that impressed because to me they were a bit higher price than Big lots of course over the years I've noticed that Big lots has attempted to move upscale and as a result their prices have went up they're not exactly the cheap store that they used to be which is why most of us when we want cheap things we go to Dollar general family Dollar and or Dollar tree.
As far as the junkiness of the products go well what that means is basically they have buyers that don't know what the hell they're doing plain and simple.
Of course common knowledge of retail is simply the retail business is much like the entertainment business you can't necessarily keep people happy all the time and you're certainly not going to please everyone.
So it's true that what you saw is junkie products or perhaps even 10 people that you know agree that it's junkie products the truth is there's 10 if not 20 other people out there that didn't see it as junkie on the other hand if the entire area believes that it's crap then that location will lose out on business.
So the problem with an El cheapo discounter pretending to go upscale particularly not necessarily with the format of the store but definitely with the prices being much higher is that they have to be careful about what area they go into you don't want it too upscale but you don't want it to downscale it can be a bitch to place the store and mistakes are made frequently unfortunately for most companies.
Most companies that exist and or have ever existed they all have at least one location if not five locations that should have never been they've all made those mistakes and here's the problem if you get management that does not care where they're put in stores then those problems will be repeated very very frequently!
My wife and I went to one a few months back and it was randomly closed on a weekday at like 11am. A handwritten sign on the door just read CLOSED TODAY.
Would you have felt better if the sign had said, 'Gone Fishing'? Sometimes you just need a day off.
So the first time I want to these they MOSTLY had stuff from Target, and the discounts were pretty great. I watched as they gradually got more and more no-name merch where you have to research to see if it's even a quality item. That experience, having to product research everything, at that point you feel like you're already shopping online anyway. When it was all stuff I could recognize from other retailers as being at least decent, so I could just SHOP.
I went to a store we saw in the north valley after visiting a different store (so just a random visit to look for "treasure"). There were no signs about that store closing but I did notice they had a 10% off everything offer. My thoughts were that it was well overpriced for the items that were in the store. Its somewhere I used to go to see what British foods etc theyd picked up to grab myself a bargain but even the stuff they had on "sale" was well over the price Id expect to pay. Also my main take from that particualr store was the intense buzzing coming from somewhere in the electrical lights. It wasnt just one as it seemed to emanate on each side of the store, to the point of being painful if you stayed there for very long. Im guessing they must only employ hard of hearing staff there as it would have driven my mad being near it more that 20 minutes. I left the store without a purchase which summed up my disappointment really.
Gonna miss my hometown TM in Maryland so much, but it’s true lately things have been more hit and miss. Used to be able to find stellar cotton bath towels or 100% cotton bedding or nice pillows for a deal, but now everything is cheap polyester. Still, it was also my go-to place for off-the-wall gifts my family depends on me getting them, so will be sad to see them go. The only two stores left in the state are in the most bizarre out of the way places.
Let me tell you something. I'm an assistant manager at the Titusville store in Florida. Our store is looking amazing. We get compliments all the time about how organized the merchandise is. A store can look fabulous if the employees love their store. Hmmm? I guess we loved our store and are devastated at losing our pride and joy. Not happy😥
I've heard too many horror stories about Tuesday Morning stores and how they treat the part-time employees. Subpar looking stores may be the result of employees burnt out with bad treatment.
Packard Bell keyboard? What next an EMachines monitor! Love this channel.
Well Acer owns the Packard Bell brand name now, and it's still sold in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East filling the same roll Gateway does here in North America as an outsourced ultra budget brand. So it honestly would not surprise me if Acer brought back the eMachines brand name, and slapped it on an outsourced ultra cheap generic LCD monitor at some point in the future. 😅
@CommodoreFan64 Yes indeed my friend. Always love the I.T. crowd on these retro channels.
The store wasn’t empty because it was closing. Their stores were practically empty as the pandemic was easing up. I’ve bought a few things there over time, but it was never a place to go with a specific goal.
LOVE the Sit UBU sit reference! Brilliant!
I found several German Nut Crackers (Stinbach) many years ago. They were about half price. My wife loved to look around. Stores in my area closed.
My wife used to drag me to TM all the time and none of the locations here in Vegas looked like that. They were usually much smalle and over loaded with product.
That was a whole different dog with a different set of fleas.
Still, we found a lot of great deals there. The rug under my desk right now came from TM and we paid about a third of what we would have paid elsewhere. It's held up for over 10 years which is more than I can say for any other rug we have,
For several years, 2000s I swear I honestly thought this retail chain was women's fashions, discount clothes. FL has many mid range, low end clothing retail.
I had the same thought too. I'm not sure why, but the name sounds very "clothing store".
Tuesday Morning is where I go when I need a cheap sheet set and comforter, or beach towels.
the only thing i've ever bought from a tuesday morning was this weird knock off peter pan tea set that had the quote from the book about dying as a key part of its design. it was creepy so of course i still have it
The only time I went to Tuesday Morning was during Christmas. The rest of the time it was pointless. There was a really nice Tuesday Morning in a brand new commercial space that made me actually want to shop there. Every other one I've seen has been like those shown in the videos, dark and depressing. Unfortunately that particular store closed 2 years ago. I'd rather go to Home Goods / TJMaxx for the kind of shopping they're designed for. Their stores are cleaner, well lit, organized and you can find some random good deals occasionally.
All the Tuesday Morning stores in Colorado are closing. I've been to some of them over the years. Bought a few things but they've never been a "must go to" store, much more of a, "Oh, there's a Tuesday Morning store, might as well check it out."
My local store is among those on the closing list after being open for a few years (IIRc they took over some long vacant space that was once part of a Goody's clothing store) . It doesn't look much different from the video, and it was often hard to tell where the store ended and the stockroom began. I never bought anything there, but wondered around a few times out of curiosity.
Apparently the Packard Bell brand never died out in Europe (the story is that the brand didn't have the sub-par quality reputation it had in the US so it stuck around) and they must have figured that by now in the US, people have forgotten about the poor quality and/or feel nostalgia. I actually saw a PB branded phone holder and webcam at one of the department stores at the local mall (which, despite being a mall and having seen better days, is not dead)
Woah, the Tuesday morning closest to me is in a nice shopping center and the inside is very nice and large! The front is set up to where it looks fancy and expensive but it’s not, and then the further back you go the more clearancey and cheapy it gets. It’s almost set up to look like World Market, like you won’t be able to afford the stuff except you can lol
As far as I know they’re having a third party (Gordon Brothers) to liquidate the fixtures. And there was a shortage of gingerbread house kits in 2020 so now retailers are way overcompensating. 🙄
They fired Gordman Brothers and got permission to handle the store closing sales themselves. This might account for the lack of bold liquidation sale signs.
The store my me closed a while back. It was in a newly build building and they were the first tenant and was next to a Best Buy. I went in when they first open with someone and again one other time and did buy something, but that was it. The name never made sense as when I lived in another city and first saw one of their stores, it was never open. I really thought maybe they were only open on a Tuesday Morning and I was at work so would miss it.
The fixtures are more industrial then regular retail shelving, so their could be a better market for them and could sell at a higher price than just offering them at store closings.
My local came and gone and it’s location flipped twice. It’s an awful location between a dollar tree and Panera. There’s a rite aid and an empty storefront also in that strip
I think for starters they need to change their name. I am a 55 yo guy who’s never been in one of these….and I actually thought these stores sold plus size women’s clothing. Maybe they would get more traffic with a name like “No Frills Retail” or something to that effect.
In 2018 I saw a help wanted sign at one in illinois. I stopped to talk to the manager and they said that it was for warehouse/receiving... but would require you to get in a 7a, then open the store at 10a, be the only worker for the first 2 hours, then back to the stocking of items from the dock for the rest of your shift. They were offering $8.25/hr. I literally laughed and the manager said "yea, nobody in their right mind would agree to this." For reference, the Panda Express down the road was starting cashiers at 50% more without the tasks of unloading trucks, stocking pallets, being a key-holder, and working alone.
My teenage son calls this a "Stuff Store". Random crap in no particular order. They don't even have good deals usually.
The Tuesday Mornings where I live, went from selling junk to selling straight goods on the shelves. Very expensive goods.
They carried a lot of stuff I really wanted, but their prices were the same at 40% + off, as they were at Target or Home Goods, or even at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Just WAY out of my price range.....although I did splurge once and bought a small ceramic mixing bowl for $15. I bought it because it was a special type, and a type I have been looking for, for many years. So I grabbed it.
But yeah, the first time I went into a Tuesday Morning years and years ago, it looked like a dump truck had backed up and just dumped a load of garbage into an empty store. The most recent one I went into was clean, bright, cheery, and was fully stocked with tons of neat stuff that was brand new..........but extremely high priced for what they were.
I've been meaning to go back, because I just love window shopping in there........but I guess its probably closed by now. I will have to check just out of curiosity now.
Shopped at my local TM for over 20 years; good for housewares, gifts, craft materials, gourmet foods and snacks, and, yes, treasure hunting. Based on changes in store layout and inventory, it was obvious that corporate didn't know what the hell they were doing.
Just never felt a need to shop here even when it was popular. It's the same stuff as Pier 1, Cost Plus, Ross, TJMaxx, HomeGoods and Big Lots. So much market saturation in the off price category.
I haven't seen any of these stores in PA. Looks like I'm not missing anything.
You're not. Trust me.
This is honestly the first time hearing about this store, despite having so many locations, I'd never seen it.
...just googled it, there's two of them in my city and I've never seen it? Wow
Anyway, great video!
I just noticed a Tuesday Morning location here in Louisville, near an Ollie's and Harbor Freight I stopped at the other day. I noticed it was very bare looking, possibly entirely empty. I didn't know whether it was in the process of opening or closing. Now I know. I may stop by again and see if there's still anything left.
I'd love to see videos about Ollie's or Harbor Freight. Harbor Freight was a laughingstock for a very long time---a place where you could go to get tools as long as your life or your livelihood didn't depend on those tools. They had good deals on consumable items but their tools were to be avoided, especially power tools. All of that has changed now. They now have a good, better, best strategy where they still have their lower-end brands but are also selling some premium stuff under new brands they've created. They were known for their coupons and then they did away with them and seriously upset some customers, including me. Now they have brought the coupons back but only in digital form. For a while in 2021, they were rapidly moving away from their customer base by seemingly ditching all of their lower-end tools and jacking their prices up as much as possible. Due to a lot of customer outcry, they have since reversed course and are trying to still offer good deals and promote some of their lower-end brands.
Thanks for the video man, Have you thought about an update video about Kohl's since the CEO left to take over Levi's?
They're trying to balance between clearance prices and shipping inventory to other stores. It does look like it's in the 30-40% off days of a closing sale. Those are the cheapest shelves you can buy for retail. No, they're slowly bleeding out. Probably won't last thru this current recession we're in.
The company will probably continue to dwindle downward in store count over the coming years until, like Sears and K-Mart, they reach the point of irrelevancy.
This is just the Backrooms for grandma.