A friendly clerk at Kohl’s in the Bayshore Mall said the other day that, no, the prospect of another competitor isn’t threatening. Kohl’s can handle it. It’s known, said the clerk, for its customer service, especially at the Eureka store:
“We were just voted No. 1 in customer service in our region, out of 106 stores.”
The newbie — T.J. Maxx — (owned by the same company as Marshall’s) has been written up as a successful sourcer in quality brands.
Even so, this news likely ain’t as exciting as a new Wal-Mart coming to town.
Well, T.J., welcome to Eureka — and to the pending minimum wage showdown.
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More retail jobs. Hooray.
Last ditch effort to save a sinking ship, AKA Bayshore Mall?
Had to make a trip there last weekend, first time I’d been there in over a yr. What a waste land of space. Walking from end to end, I lost count how many shops are boarded up and couldn’t even recall what they once held.
More retail is not going to help our struggling economy……..
You would rather see more temporary homes than the mall building? Whether or not more retail will help our “struggling economy” may be open to debate, would you agree that more retail coming to town indicates that businesses (just by locating here) believe the economy is improving? What would it take for you to believe it as well?
Allow me to clear up some of NAC’s misconceptions.
TJ Max is welcome in my book.
If they are anything like Kohls we can expect $10 gift cards to start arriving every few months over their first few years!
How can ANY local-owned business compete with that!?
Hooray!
Do tell 11:23, what current independent locally-owned businesses do you think sell the same stock as TJ Maxx? Their only competitors are Kohl’s, Sears, K-Mart, Wal-Mart and Target.
As “HUH points out no local businesses will compete with the new store.
Ray’s is far from a “huge” corporation.
Huge corporations do not open stores in Eureka California to take an “affordable loss”. Why do you think that there are so many empty storefronts in the mall? It certainly isn’t because a “huge corporation” was making a profit. More likely profit left and so did the store.
Silly anonymous.
Oh boy here we go again. A ton of local sheltered people bickering unrealistically about a chain that the rest of the world has but not Humboldt. Whether this place moves in or not it won’t matter for your local economy anyways. Your economy is only going to get worse. You guys have been talking about a better economy for over 10 years now. Keep dreaming. Growing up in Portland I’ve learned that this store won’t have any effect on the economy. The economy is going to get worse for the cultureless iron curtain of the redwoods. Time to get used to it.
“Do tell 11:23, what current independent locally-owned businesses do you think sell the same stock as TJ Maxx?”
So many fools!
There’s limited retail dollars available to compete for in rural areas like ours!
All the businesses are hurt!
If local media did its job, they would publish the plethora of economic research showing that rural communities cannot afford to subsidize unlimited numbers of part time, temporary, poverty wage jobs.
Comparing the economy of Eureka to Portland?
Are you insane?
Eureka’s economy is hopeless because the entrenched “leadership” can’t even listen to the economic experts they spent tens of thousands of dollars retaining.
Their only idea of growth is: “say yes to everything and keep repeating the myth of a free-market, as long as it benefits the biggest campaign donors….the developers…
“Ray’s is far from a “huge” corporation.”
Tell that to Eureka Natural Foods, the Coop, and every other local owned business in this county!
“Silly” indeed!
“Huge corporations do not open stores in Eureka California to take an ‘affordable loss’.”
And Meg Whitman didn’t “throw away” $70 million to lose the governor’s seat to Jerry Brown.
For this nations owners, the gamble almost always pays- off…it’s why they do it!
Ok, they come here to take losses. How come The Gap, Ralph Loren, and Old Navy, among others, are no longer here?
I repeat, they don’t come here to lose money, they take a gamble that they can bury enough competition to succeed, and they almost always do, just like the richest candidate!
If it takes them 15 years, like Ray’s, so be it!