Ah, dang.
My cousin recently had several communications with the corporate office, and they told him the Alter'd State store was closed with no plans to reopen either elsewhere in the mall or another location in the area. His wife and several of her friends were really bummed that the store closed.
Now they can add an H&M or Zara in that space.
The H&M’s I’ve been to elsewhere are certainly far more active. Ironically, it’s still more active here than I ever expect it to be when I go, but that doesn’t mean much. I would be interested to see if it would be more active at Penn Square or if it’s genuinely just not popular here.
Agreed on Zara at Oak if not at PSM.
I've been to the H&M at Quail several times and it has customers but I wouldn't call it busy.
I think some of it has to do with malls going out of style and some of it has to do with Quail not being a great mall. The aquarium gives it an odd smell. It has several empty spaces. Many stores seem to be on the cheap side (and I don't mean cost). A lot of space is being taken up by concepts instead of stores now. The AMC doesn't bring people in like it did 25 years ago because they're better options in the area.
Cinnabon is going into the old Good Girl Chocolates location right next to Auntie Anne's Pretzels
I guess they didn't want to go for the old Subway space upstairs in the food court.
I have to mention this- I worked in retail management for some of the hottest companies at the time and at most malls in the market. There are not buyers for the “OKC market”. It depends on the volume (A-E) of the store or what kind of store it is (travel, destination, local, etc). The H&M stores that your wife has shopped in when out of the state are probably higher volume as most locations are. Okc is weird retail market, meaning that even if a location has a great volume, the corp office still looks at it as it being in Oklahoma and does not get all the bells and whistles. Sad but very true. We are not high profile at all. The quality is all the same unless you go to an “outlet” or “factory” store. That is where they might have different buyers. Hope this helps.
Yeah, it's long been obvious that major chains don't think or care about their Oklahoma stores. It's frustrating to go into one of these stores in August and they've got sweaters and fall items on display while it's 103° outside and they don't have any shorts for sale.
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