Browsed by
Tag: REI

Brick And Mortar Stores Need To Quit Being Stupid

Brick And Mortar Stores Need To Quit Being Stupid

My wife and I open our postal mail once a month.  We get paid once a month.  Our bills arrive once a month.  I pay electronically my bills at the beginning of the month.  My wife stacks a whole months of snail mail on my desk.  I just opened REI’s  Anniversary Sale booklet showing your sale took place May 19 – 29, 2017.  Today is June 5th.  We missed the sale.  My point is this.  Brick and mortar stores are…

Read More Read More

Letter To REI To Consider Former Sports Chalet Store.

Letter To REI To Consider Former Sports Chalet Store.

I received reports that the Sports Chalet store in Brea, California seemed to have a special positive standing in the community.  Here are some empirical indicators: Customers arriving at the checkout during the liquidation sales made comments to the staff that they did not like any other sporting good store.  Some were close to crying. The manager of the liquidation company made the statement that in over 10 years of offering liquidation sales, he had never seen a store like…

Read More Read More