Chicagoist: More Trouble for Local Department Stores

No, you are STUPID!!

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:29:00 -0600

Nothing shows you have an intelligent counter-argument like using profanity. During in-person arguments, do you repeat the same thing as your opponent in a stupid voice?

Mikey

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:00:21 -0600

The problem with our government is that you are too silly to realize that they are playing with your paycheck. Thanks for clearing that up, jackass. I thought the problem was that you were skewing the facts to support your flimsy arguments...

mike

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:39:33 -0600

Egads, I wouldn't be caught dead in a department store. Williams-Sonoma, though - now there's a store. Maybe while I'm there this weekend (I've had my eye on this new cookware set from Le Creuset that's just to *die* for... and only $900!), I can ask for a few extra bags - one to wear over my head, and one to hide my packages in when I have to shop at Macys.

E!

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:32:12 -0600

This really does not surprise me. I've done most of my Christmas shopping on-line this year. Sign of the times, folks!

james

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:40:19 -0600

olivia, you're right. there are no minor or small layoffs. i certainly don't mean to gloss over the lost jobs at macy's either -- i've been laid off three times in my short career myself, so i certainly am familiar with the seriousness of even one person losing her or his job.

Olivia Leigh

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:39:03 -0600

James, Federated also cut jobs at the new Macy's. Admittedly not as many, but I'm sure for those that did lose their job, 33 jobs are just as important as 200.

rich

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:31:56 -0600

200 people plus all the other jobs that go with the store employees. Tradesman, contractors, delivery guys, tons of secondary jobs will be lost. Mikey if you love paying taxes why don't you give more to the state and the city. They will sure enjoy it. We are paying more taxes now in the city then every before. With property tax and sales tax going up, and job loss like this one, it just is making chicago a very unaffordable place to live (and it hits the poor the hardest). People can blame business and condo owners for unaffordablity, but really it's the government that drives business out with their stupid tax increases. And what the government is doing with all this money, they are giving them big pay raises, hiring their friends and family, and writing blank checks to their friends sham business. The problem with our government is that you are too silly to realize that they are playing with your paycheck.

Mikey

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:59:57 -0600

And just think this is all possible with a 1% hike in sales tax last year. Nearly 1 out 10 dollars you spend in Chicago, goes to Chicago. How do you figure? A 6 1/2% state sales tax is built into that figure (which is actually 9%; in many of the adjacent suburbs, the sales tax is 9% as well)...

Sock Puppeteer

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:45:08 -0600

The rumor is that American Girl wants to move around the corner to take over a big chunk of the L&T space.

james

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:08:59 -0600

that's what makes all the silliness of people saying 'oh, woe are we, for field's is no more,' when they fail to address the matter of more than 200 people at L&T losing their jobs. at least fields/macys is still there and giving people work. People get laid off and businesses move out of town all the time, but for some reason a lot, too many, people would rather direct their energies at crying and moaning over a store changing its nameplate.

rich

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:48:51 -0600

And just think this is all possible with a 1% hike in sales tax last year. Nearly 1 out 10 dollars you spend in Chicago, goes to Chicago. Big Corporations really take notice that they are being gouged by local governments. They are going to start wondering why some other department store in the suburbs are undercutting their prices and why they need a downtown location. Economics 101, mess with the market and the market will mess with you.