Looks Like Mervyns is headed toward the big strip mall in the sky. My sister-in-law loves the joint but I always thought they had a lousy retail strategy. Normally located as a stand-alone retail anchor in boring strip malls, they made one have to really want to shop only at their establishment. I hated driving all the way over to their lonely outposts to find the same stuff as Target (used to be a related Dayton Hudson retailer) just dressed up a bit. For example, like Target, they never carried good men's clothes like men's suspenders and shoes with real leather stitched soles but presented themselves as higher end.
Recently, our local Mervyn's, located at the other end of the retail strip from the busy Target store, looked like a scary ghost town on the inside. As I prepared to enter the store things got foggy and vision-like and the store seemed to levitate upward briefly. For a moment the clouds seemed to part and there in the sky I think I saw a glowing Millers Outpost sign. Then everything returned to normal.
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