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    Sears.com Black Friday Sale

    in 2009

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    Thank you! The craftsman chain saw is on sale now. The sale price came up when I added it to my cart. With free shipping and $5 off with the code it was $124. Plus tax of course.

    One present down thanks so much again

    Linda

    Rocky the Robot... what do you think

    in 2009

    Posted

    I missed out on the 49.99 Amazon deal now the prices are over $60. So I went to Walmart and they where sold out. I found him at Toys R Us for 59.99. I can't believe I was freaking out over a toy. The movie Jingle all the way kept playing in my head.

    Linda

    What happen to saying "Hello!"

    in Deal Finder & Deal Discussion

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    Its true when I worked retail we would always say did you need help or hi looking for something in particular. We were told to do this, because it would prevent a shoplifter or made them think,well some of them anyways that its not a good idea to shop lift anything right now.

    Now instead of getting any kind of help from a worker you would get security on your tail.

    Linda

    Value city closing down stores. Big discounts on items

    in Offline Hot Deals

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    I went 2 weeks ago when the ad in the paper came out. Ad said huge savings 10-30% off at bottom in small print it said all sales final. Bummed me right I knew that they were going out of business, next day it was on local channel 4 news.

     

    So I went to Warren and Roseville locations and at Warren location the manager said the were going out of business so I proceeded to roseville and at checkout I was having a problem with a cashier and outfit not having all its pieces so i said look all sales are final and i do not need the missing piece she was like i can not sale it . I said you are going out of business and she said no were not I said have you seen the news she said and you believe everything the news says...she was very rude but anyway. I feel for them they know that they are going down and it stinks because I love Value city....oh well another kick to Michigan. Ok too much rambeling but she made me mad. Things we getting pretty picked over 2 weeks ago so hurry if you want to get some deals.

    At Roseville they are always rude. It has nothing to do with it closing. Just ask for a manager. Maybe that will work.

    Linda

    Value city closing down stores. Big discounts on items

    in Offline Hot Deals

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    I'm not sure what the percentages are now but here in Mich there are at least 3 that I know of that are closing. Roseville,Warren and Livoina.

    LIVONIA -- Discount retailer Value City announced it is closing more than half of its stores in Michigan by March, leaving hundreds of workers unemployed.

     

    A spokeswoman for VCHI Acquisition of Columbus, Ohio, which acquired an 81 percent stake in the chain Jan. 23, confirmed the closings Sunday.

     

    Stores in Roseville, Wyoming, Warren, Livonia and Saginaw are among 30 nationwide scheduled to close. The Westland, Taylor, Flint and Lansing stores will remain open, VCHI spokeswoman Robin Hepler said. She didn't know how many employees would be affected by the Michigan store closures, but said Value City has 8,600 employees nationwide.

     

    Hepler said VCHI has decided to keep only those stores it feels can survive competition from other close-out retailers, like Marshalls and TJ Maxx.

     

     

    In September, Burlington Coat Factory announced it would purchase 24 of the chain's 113 stores ; later it committed to buying only 12 locations, Hepler said. None of those locations are in Michigan.

     

    Of the remaining stores, only 53 Value City locations are on the list of those that will stay open. The rest are in limbo, Hepler said. "Stores are moving from one list to the other each day," Hepler said.

     

    On the corner of Middle Belt and Seven Mile on Sunday, a man in a coat hoisted a sign on a stick promising enormous discounts inside Value City at the Livonia Mall. Inside, shoppers poured through racks of deals, like a pair of beige Liz Claiborne pants, originally priced at $78, for $19.99. All sales were final.

     

     

    In Livonia, employees either didn't know their store is closing or declined to talk about it.

     

    Gail Pryor, 56, of Westland asked a cashier if the store was going out of business.

     

    "All (the cashier) said was, 'We're under new management,' and then she held up her hands with her fingers crossed," Pryor said of the cashier. "You know they're closing it down."

     

    Farmington retail consultant Fred Marx, a former retailer and partner in the marketing firm Marx Layne & Co., said the store closure might have more to do with the crowded retail market than with Michigan's sour economy.

     

    "Value City is one of the weaker players in the segment that's already dominated with expansion by Wal-Mart, Target, Meijer and other players," Marx said. "Value City doesn't have the clout or the ability to have a strong enough footprint in this marketplace.

     

     

    "It's still a market of 5 million people in southeast Michigan, stronger than some other states."

     

    In Livonia, patrons said closing the Value City would likely spell the end of the Livonia Mall, which has slowly declined since the loss of anchor tenant Crowleys, which went out of business in the late 1990s. Mervyn's also closed its Livonia location, and the chain eventually left the Michigan market.

     

    The only remaining anchor after March will be Sears.

     

    "It's going -- there's hardly anything here anymore," said Barb Heckman, 61, of Redford Township. "Sears and Value City are the only things keeping it going.

     

    "Our shopping options in this area are very limited. Now we'll have to go to Farmington or Westland to do our shopping."

     

     

    Livonia Mayor Jack Kirksey is looking on the brighter side. The city wants to see the mall torn down and redeveloped.

     

    "I'm not concerned at all," Kirksey said. "This is very exciting."

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