Crossroads Mall

[jbrown84]

Why is having a car dealership a bad thing? Would we prefer that everyone went to the "Mile of Cars" in Norman or the dealerships in Edmond?

I didn't say it was, but someone else brought it up and I was just adding information. The Bob Moore dealership is very nice and I would say it's an excellent addition to the southside.

[jbrown84]

I have never seen stocking at Target, whereas if you go to a Walmart or Neighborhood Market after 11pm it's like navigating an obstacle course around the pallates and the ones that are moving make no attempt to avoid running you over. #IhateWalmart

[Thunder]

Thunder, I don't buy that, because every time I've been to Target, I've seen them stocking during the day. In fact, they have some of the most annoying stockers there are. Not to mention, Target employees wear those blasted walkie talkies at full volume without headsets. Why can't they make them wear a headset or earpiece?

Metro, you're gonna have to buy it, bucko. They do stock during the day from the red tub, but they do NOT want to stock with boxes and pallets on the floor while customers is there.

[Lauri101]

Thunder, I don't buy that, because every time I've been to Target, I've seen them stocking during the day. In fact, they have some of the most annoying stockers there are. Not to mention, Target employees wear those blasted walkie talkies at full volume without headsets. Why can't they make them wear a headset or earpiece?

Exactly! The MWC Target is always stocking during the day - I had to ask a stocker to please let me by, nicely but twice, at 10 AM one Friday morning. They were stocking from boxes in the personal care items - shampoos, etc. Two of them were talking about their planned dates for that night - way more info then I needed to hear!

And ITA about the walkie talkies - they are annoying.

Go Bucko

[mireaux]

Metro, you're gonna have to buy it, bucko. They do stock during the day from the red tub, but they do NOT want to stock with boxes and pallets on the floor while customers is there.

at least Target seems to care more about maintaining the stock on their shelves throughout the day. Walmart could give a rats @ss whether or not a certain item is depleted on the shelf or not, if what you want is gone, they automatically expect you to buy either the generic spinoff of it (usually the walmart brand) or the more expensive version of that product.

...oh, and trying to buy a specific product at Walmart that your local sunday paper is featuring a saving coupon for a discount is next to impossible. Its almost guaranteed to be out of stock until that next truck arrives again, which usually doesnt arrive until either the sale on that product is over, or your coupon is expired.

[rcjunkie]

at least Target seems to care more about maintaining the stock on their shelves throughout the day. Walmart could give a rats @ss whether or not a certain item is depleted on the shelf or not, if what you want is gone, they automatically expect you to buy either the generic spinoff of it (usually the walmart brand) or the more expensive version of that product.

...oh, and trying to buy a specific product at Walmart that your local sunday paper is featuring a saving coupon for a discount is next to impossible. Its almost guaranteed to be out of stock until that next truck arrives again, which usually doesnt arrive until either the sale on that product is over, or your coupon is expired.

I shop the West Side Walmart in Norman and have never experienced any of these problems, guess I'm just lucky.

[oneforone]

There's a brand new Bob Moore, I believe, at 89th and I-35.

Techincally they are not new, Bob Moore Ford was already established in South OKC. They had to move from I-35 and I-240 because ODOT needs the land for the interchange rebuild. If it was not for the rebuild of the interchange they would still be there on 240.


Let's get back to the main topic..... Does anybody know what stores are still left out there? I know the last time I went, all the stores were dead and most only had one-two employees working. It seems like the remaining stores were the ones that could pack up and move/close the whole store in just a few days. I think Bath and Body Works will be one of the last hold outs. They tried to stay in Heritage Park until the bitter end. I talked to the store manager the day before they closed. She said the only reason they were closing was that the mall management had been to lax on security issues. It only took them 3-4 days to close the store.

[kevinpate]

I shop the West Side Walmart in Norman and have never experienced any of these problems, guess I'm just lucky.

I don't tend to go inside WM very often, but She Who Must Be Adored (easiest task I've ever had) doesn't tend to come home without what she wanted to obtain from there. The other WM's are far enough away our fam doesn't use them enough to offer an opinion.

[ljbab728]

I didn't say it was, but someone else brought it up and I was just adding information. The Bob Moore dealership is very nice and I would say it's an excellent addition to the southside.

I really wasn't responding to your comment specifically. There had been a previous comment that seemed to complain about car dealerships being bad or too prevelent.

[sgt. pepper]

is this thread about Crossroads mall, Target or Bob Moore?

[Thunder]

is this thread about Crossroads mall, Target or Bob Moore?

All of the above.

[Pete]

People, let's get back on topic please.

Thanks.

[billy]

Let's get back to the main topic..... Does anybody know what stores are still left out there? I know the last time I went, all the stores were dead and most only had one-two employees working. It seems like the remaining stores were the ones that could pack up and move/close the whole store in just a few days. I think Bath and Body Works will be one of the last hold outs. They tried to stay in Heritage Park until the bitter end. I talked to the store manager the day before they closed. She said the only reason they were closing was that the mall management had been to lax on security issues. It only took them 3-4 days to close the store.

The last time I went (about a week and a half ago) I noticed a couple stores had closed down. Candyoplis, Tuxedo Junction, and Spencer's were the few I remember being like "what? when did this happen?" Some stores I remember being open are Claire's, Grand Nails, Hot Topic, Chick-fil-a, Rue 21, Victoria's Secret, Frederick's of Hollywood, Bath & Body Works, GNC, Chinex, Eargazum, Bronx, Eastern Treasures, and Gamestop. Since Waldenbook has closed I rarely go there anymore. It's a bummer walking around seeing all these stores I grew up loitering at closed down.

[Larry OKC]

Is that Spencers Gifts? I thought they closed all of them here in the metro a few years ago?

[Thunder]

Spencers finally closed there?!?!?!?! I see NO NEED for them to CLOSE! They get decent traffic! Another one still open at Penn Square. The candy store, maybe, but Spencers?!

[oneforone]

Spencers finally closed there?!?!?!?! I see NO NEED for them to CLOSE! They get decent traffic! Another one still open at Penn Square. The candy store, maybe, but Spencers?!

Everytime, I walked by the Candy Store at Crossroads over the last year... I thought of the Simpsons episode where they visit the dying Springfield Mall and Homer buys the gummy worms in one telephone pole sized piece.

[decepticobra]

People don't need malls with big box and lifestyle centers. OKC has plenty of the former and will develop more of the latter. A mobile society likes to drive up to the door and walk out with instant gratification. Long ago, people bemoaned the loss of the catalog stores - now they have them again x 100 with the internet. Most malls will die - the ones that survive are better run, more creative and extending their purpose beyond convenience shopping.

you bring up an interesting aspect, something that hasnt dawned on me but seems to be the reason why so many indoor malls are dying: ebay & amazon.

[Dulahey]

Spencers finally closed there?!?!?!?! I see NO NEED for them to CLOSE! They get decent traffic! Another one still open at Penn Square. The candy store, maybe, but Spencers?!

This is only hearsay, but the management of the mall is pretty crazy. The rent in that mall just keeps going up and up, which is the main reason most stores are leaving.

Remember the Funcoland that was just outside the mall? over near Best Buy? They left because when their new contract came up the owners(I think it's the same ones as the mall) wanted about double what they had been paying.

Again, just hearsay from a friend of mine that used to work at the Gamestop in there. And as a couple years ago, that Gamestop was still the top selling store in the district even though it's in Crossroads. Guess that's why it's still there. I can't imagine that lasting too much longer though... it's a ghost town in there.

[megax11]

If online and strip malls were hurting malls so much, they end up like Crossroads, then Penn Square and Quail Springs Mall would be burting and losing retailers too.

Thing is though, they aren't. They are flourishing as they always have been. Why?

1. If they are being charged insane rent, then at least the mall owners are listening to their needs. Which leads to 2.

2. Those malls are modernized and not living in the past, due to greed.

I heard time and time again, that Crossroads merchants kept asking the owners to modernize the mall, if they're going to be charged insane rent. Needless to say, the owners just ignored them.

That's why Heritage and Crossroads suffered the same fate.

I refuse to walk into Crossroads anymore, because it pains me to see that mall dying, due to greed. I loved going to that place every day, but not anymore.

I would rather remember it for what it was, then see it, the way it is now.

[jbrown84]

American Eagle has been gone for a few months. Don't know if that's been mentioned.

[Soonerman]

Is that Spencers Gifts? I thought they closed all of them here in the metro a few years ago?

They have a Spencers at Quail it's on the upper level next to Macy's Sooner Mall has a Spencers as well.

[Larry OKC]

Thanks for the info...used to go to the Spencers Gifts (think it was in the location you are talking about) at Penn Square (but wait, you said Quail) and was there when they were having a store closing sale. Was told by the Mgr that ALL the locations in the Metro area were closing. They were getting more sales thru their mail order than thru the stores.

Anyway, will check Quail out.

[oneforone]

It kind of sounds like the majority of the stores left in Crossroads are leaving as soon as their lease is up.

I am willing to bet most of the stores are finding better locations in South OKC and Moore.

I give it six months and the mall will either consolidate the existing stores to one area/level of the mall or they will close for good.

Closing for good may actually help the mall attract a developer that will turn it into something useful.

[Soonerman]

Thanks for the info...used to go to the Spencers Gifts (think it was in the location you are talking about) at Penn Square (but wait, you said Quail) and was there when they were having a store closing sale. Was told by the Mgr that ALL the locations in the Metro area were closing. They were getting more sales thru their mail order than thru the stores.

Anyway, will check Quail out.

BTW Penn still has one as well.

[ssandedoc]

Chic-Fil-A closes its door this Saturday at Crossroads.