My past is dying

[anotherguy]

Almost every business I've worked for has closed after I left. A few changed owners or reopened later. I guess it's just taking longer for UPS and Lowe's. 

[quadraphonic]

AFAIK I have never been responsible for any place I've worked at shutting down after I left. But plenty of them have. Some moved, others shut down. One place, a year or so after I quit working there, the guy who replaced the dude who replaced me got killed at work, so the 'jinx' thing goes both ways, I guess. Some workplaces 'jinx' the employees and you're best being out.
Some have shut down when I worked there. What ya gonna do?
Maybe I'll write me a song like Chrissie Hynde or something....

[firepoint525]

Most of my former employers are gone , Remember the Sambo's restuarant chain, worked there in the late 70s, Sizzler Restuarants closed all of the restaurants I work at.OH WELL life goes on.

So what you're saying, kenray, is that you are bad luck for any company that hires you   

That's true for me, too!     Remember Druther's Restaurant?  You don't?  Good!  And good riddance to them, too!    They didn't even give employee discounts!  Had to use coupons to get my food at reduced price!  And then they had the nerve to fire me!    Oh, well!  Money got stolen from their safe a couple of months after I left!  (No, I didn't do it!) It was well known that they kept that safe open!  Then, less than a year after they fired me, they closed!    Great!  That was just one less former employer around to (potentially!) bad-mouth me! 

And even most of the radio stations that I have formerly worked for have undergone so many management, ownership, format, and call letter changes that many of them are simply no longer the stations I once worked for!

[Yeziknoradio]

Almost every business I've worked for has closed after I left. A few changed owners or reopened later. I guess it's just taking longer for UPS and Lowe's. 

Odd enough, Lowe's is expanding and growing...in Canada!
In Toronto Canada they made the bold move of opening up right next door to a Rona store, even though there's already a Home Depot not all that far from there.

I say Lowes has guts, but no clue wether or not they'll survive.

[quadraphonic]

Every drugstore in our city in the last 10 years has been built on the same corner as 1-3 other drugstores. All the other places like Lowe's and Home Depot or Best Buy or HHGregg that only have a couple places in town are within 1/4 miles of each other, the same area pretty much. I don't get how they follow each other around like that, but they seem to think it works.

[dmargalotti]

Every drugstore in our city in the last 10 years has been built on the same corner as 1-3 other drugstores. All the other places like Lowe's and Home Depot or Best Buy or HHGregg that only have a couple places in town are within 1/4 miles of each other, the same area pretty much. I don't get how they follow each other around like that, but they seem to think it works.

You see the same thing in NJ.  I know of at least 3 places in my area where there are a Lowes and Home Depot very close to each other...in some cases, almost next door.  Back in the 80's when I was working part time in radio, I sold electronics for Crazy Eddie's.  Whenever a new CE store opened, you were sure to see a competitor open up across the street or down the road.  Crazy Eddie's, Newark & Lewis, The Wiz, Brick Church Appliance...it didn't work for any of them back then.  They were each so aggressive at beating the competitions price that they almost completely eliminated the profit margin. 

[kenrayc]

Every drugstore in our city in the last 10 years has been built on the same corner as 1-3 other drugstores. All the other places like Lowe's and Home Depot or Best Buy or HHGregg that only have a couple places in town are within 1/4 miles of each other, the same area pretty much. I don't get how they follow each other around like that, but they seem to think it works.

You see the same thing in NJ.  I know of at least 3 places in my area where there are a Lowes and Home Depot very close to each other...in some cases, almost next door.  Back in the 80's when I was working part time in radio, I sold electronics for Crazy Eddie's.  Whenever a new CE store opened, you were sure to see a competitor open up across the street or down the road.  Crazy Eddie's, Newark & Lewis, The Wiz, Brick Church Appliance...it didn't work for any of them back then.  They were each so aggressive at beating the competitions price that they almost completely eliminated the profit margin. 

Same here in Central CA,Target is aross the street from K-Mart and Walmart is one block away from there.Lowes, OSH and Home Depot are within a miles of each other. Same with the Major Grocery Chains Savemart is across the street to VONS and Albersons at almost all location. Rite-aid is across from CVS drugs and next to Walgreens.

[oaktree]

Dude ... oh, never mind.

To have to report this on a radio board is so .... oh, never mind.

You've led a very very sheltered life, Marc.

What next? Your Price Chopper resume, too? How about your Wal-Mart career?

Marc, remembering you from the Radio Racket ... this isn't it.  Please, get a life.

[Silkie]

As most people know I worked at Shaw's Supermarket from October 01 until May 06. As you already know the Shaw's location in Southington, CT (where I worked from 9/04 until 5/06) closed down in October 06. Now the company has announced it will close the Bristol, CT location (which is where I worked from October 01 until September 04) on July 25. My past is dying.

http://www.bristolpress.com/articles/2009/06/26/business/doc4a44f8b908d71625185761.txt

http://www.lordtonymackenzie.com/desiderata.html

[GridLeakBias]

As most people know I worked at Shaw's Supermarket from October 01 until May 06. As you already know the Shaw's location in Southington, CT (where I worked from 9/04 until 5/06) closed down in October 06. Now the company has announced it will close the Bristol, CT location (which is where I worked from October 01 until September 04) on July 25. My past is dying.

http://www.bristolpress.com/articles/2009/06/26/business/doc4a44f8b908d71625185761.txt

http://www.lordtonymackenzie.com/desiderata.html

Excellent reply Silkie.  The words in the first verse are especially appropriate in this case.