I’m not sure what I’m supposed to want to shop for in department stores. I don’t do enough shopping to constantly seek out “deals” so I don’t spend time following the coupon or discount sales cycles. So whenever I do end up at a department store I see the sky high price on product I can get cheaper elsewhere or better quality/higher end at other stores.
Years ago I saw a coupon for a storewide discount at Macys and thought that an item I was wanting may be there. I found the long list of exclusions on the coupon excluded the item I wanted so I didn’t bother going.
The focus on sales and deals and shit has been an attempt to compete with first Walmart and target, and then Amazon.
Used to be that department stores were where you went when you needed stuff. At one point, it was just where you went shopping for your general life. They tended to lower prices than boutiques through volume and you’d go to more specific, more expensive stores for more specific things.
Today, yeah. Why bother? You actually can find better clothes at Macy’s and Penny’s than Walmart, but you have to dig, and realize that the real Levi 501s are going to be $30 more than the modern Levi stretch fit trash. (And $30 less than buying them at the Levi store.)
Anti-consumer wastes of space. I don’t mourn them
