It's Getting Worse...More Shops Closing Down

[VBF]

3 hours ago, Wongkitlo said:

Twice bitten 4 times shy.

If at first you don't succeed.........

[jacko45k]

18 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Hooters might very well pull the plug on all the Hooters in Thailand...

Why specifically Thailand, this is a worldwide pandemic?

[morrobay]

37 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Why specifically Thailand, this is a worldwide pandemic?

Because in Thailand , unlike alot of countries, you don't have to go to a hooters to see/and be around pretty girls. 

 

 

[adammike]

40 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Why specifically Thailand, this is a worldwide pandemic?

To save face,they can pull out and blame the pandemic.

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, adammike said:

To save face,they can pull out and blame the pandemic.

Yes.... Covid has been the great excuse for many things. 

[Pattaya Spotter]

The mall zombie apocalypse of the dead and nearly dead shops also continues apace...this time at Royen Garden Mall Ground Floor...who would want to guess the carnage on the upper floors...

 

DQ closed

 

Swenden's closed

 

Starbucks closed

 

Häagen-Dazs closed

 

S&P closed.

[scubascuba3]

They all should have gone into hibernation last March and saved loads of money

[redwood1]

3 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

The mall zombie apocalypse of the dead and nearly dead shops also continues apace...this time at Royen Garden Mall Ground Floor...who would want to guess the carnage on the upper floors...

 

DQ closed

 

Swenden's closed

 

Starbucks closed

 

Häagen-Dazs closed

 

S&P closed.

I was upstairs a few months ago......The closings were brutal...... 

[TaaSaparot]

3 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

The mall zombie apocalypse of the dead and nearly dead shops also continues apace...this time at Royen Garden Mall Ground Floor...who would want to guess the carnage on the upper floors...

 

They have not stripped out the signage though.

[ChipButty]

4 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

The mall zombie apocalypse of the dead and nearly dead shops also continues apace...this time at Royen Garden Mall Ground Floor...who would want to guess the carnage on the upper floors...

 

DQ closed

 

Swenden's closed

 

Starbucks closed

 

Häagen-Dazs closed

 

S&P closed.

That Häagen-Dazs wants closing down the prices they charge, obscene 

[Jeffr2]

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

They all should have gone into hibernation last March and saved loads of money

Who would have guessed we'd be where we are now?  Never in my wildest dreams could I have thought this up.  And the worst may be yet to come.  Who knows.

[ChipButty]

Where I live in Phuket one more 7/11 closing this week

[Pattaya Spotter]

29 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

That Häagen-Dazs wants closing down the prices they charge, obscene 

They were running 50% off for awhile before they closed...I stocked-up. 

Edited February 1, 2021 by Pattaya Spotter

[scubascuba3]

2 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

Who would have guessed we'd be where we are now?  Never in my wildest dreams could I have thought this up.  And the worst may be yet to come.  Who knows.

I said exactly that last March, throw in the towel early, It's on a thread somewhere. Better than a slow painful death 

[Henryford]

I was in Harbour Mall yesterday. It was always quiet but another zombie zone now. Why do they keep them open?

[redwood1]

40 minutes ago, Henryford said:

I was in Harbour Mall yesterday. It was always quiet but another zombie zone now. Why do they keep them open?

 

Well logic says business can not pay out more money than they take in for any extended length of time....

So my guess is to keep Harbor Mall from being completely void of businesses they must be dropping rents to ridiculously cheap levels....I bet some rents are under 10Gs a month, heck maybe a lot less than 10G.....     

[Wongkitlo]

23 hours ago, redwood1 said:

 

Well logic says business can not pay out more money than they take in for any extended length of time....

So my guess is to keep Harbor Mall from being completely void of businesses they must be dropping rents to ridiculously cheap levels....I bet some rents are under 10Gs a month, heck maybe a lot less than 10G.....     

A few times I was near there on weekends and there seemed a few Thais around going there. They would get off the Sukumvit Rd songtaew looking lost and then see the sign and start walking. Am not sure if they still have a special train from BKK on weekends but I thought they would catch it down in the morning, go shopping there as is close to the station, then back for the evening train.

[DerbyDan]

On 2/1/2021 at 7:43 PM, redwood1 said:

 

Well logic says business can not pay out more money than they take in for any extended length of time....

So my guess is to keep Harbor Mall from being completely void of businesses they must be dropping rents to ridiculously cheap levels....I bet some rents are under 10Gs a month, heck maybe a lot less than 10G.....     

The service help is paid so little it don't matter if it's open. Same reason shop owners sit there all day with no customers.

 

I lived by Harbor Mall before Covid and it was empty even then. Everyone just went to the Big C instead.

 

I sat at Harbor Mall in a farang chicken place and it took them a half hour to make a drumstick and salad meal. Weird place. It's kid oriented and got some weird stares being a solo male walking around there.

 

Thai believe that empty places like these have ghosts, and they won't shop there if it's empty or there are only a few customers.

Edited February 3, 2021 by DerbyDan

[EVENKEEL]

Harbor Mall is a great place to take the kids to play and have a meal. 

[scubascuba3]

1 hour ago, DerbyDan said:

The service help is paid so little it don't matter if it's open. Same reason shop owners sit there all day with no customers.

 

I lived by Harbor Mall before Covid and it was empty even then. Everyone just went to the Big C instead.

 

I sat at Harbor Mall in a farang chicken place and it took them a half hour to make a drumstick and salad meal. Weird place. It's kid oriented and got some weird stares being a solo male walking around there.

 

Thai believe that empty places like these have ghosts, and they won't shop there if it's empty or there are only a few customers.

real reason is nothing to go there for unless you have kids by the sound of it

[jacko45k]

6 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

real reason is nothing to go there for unless you have kids by the sound of it

If you need a phone cable or power chord or some bit of stuff, dead easy place to nip into (well for me) as I make my way out of town to go home (towards Sukhumvit). There are (or were) a couple of sell everything electrical/ electronic type places... you don't find in my other go to place, Big-CX. Other than that it seems so sad to invest so much on a failure. 

[scubascuba3]

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

If you need a phone cable or power chord or some bit of stuff, dead easy place to nip into (well for me) as I make my way out of town to go home (towards Sukhumvit). There are (or were) a couple of sell everything electrical/ electronic type places... you don't find in my other go to place, Big-CX. Other than that it seems so sad to invest so much on a failure. 

It's a bitch of a place to turn right out of

[jacko45k]

5 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

It's a bitch of a place to turn right out of

Yes, hence on the way home not into town....

[Pattaya Spotter]

22 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Yes, hence on the way home not into town....

I've never had a problem left or right...granted left is easier as you're not crossing traffic but either way isn't a problem. And this was pre-Covid era...now it's a waltze either way.

[jacko45k]

2 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

I've never had a problem left or right...granted left is easier as you're not crossing traffic but either way isn't a problem. And this was pre-Covid era...now it's a waltze either way.

Well I have usually just left Sukhumvit southbound and am part of a lot of impatient traffic that was at the lights a good spell and pulling to a halt in the centre of the road makes the hairs on my neck stand on end.  (Usually on my bike). I tend to avoid stuff like that, as driving standards are poor here. I once saw someone  miss death by inches close to there turning right as it was clear of oncoming... a racing pickup was overtaking all on the wrong side of Klang. 

[scubascuba3]

21 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

I've never had a problem left or right...granted left is easier as you're not crossing traffic but either way isn't a problem. And this was pre-Covid era...now it's a waltze either way.

car or motorbike? certainly with a motorbike I can't turn right easily with pickups flying up the road

[Pattaya Spotter]

22 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Well I have usually just left Sukhumvit southbound and am part of a lot of impatient traffic that was at the lights a good spell and pulling to a halt in the centre of the road makes the hairs on my neck stand on end.  (Usually on my bike). I tend to avoid stuff like that, as driving standards are poor here. I once saw someone  miss death by inches close to there turning right as it was clear of oncoming... a racing pickup was overtaking all on the wrong side of Klang. 

Maybe I should add my ride is an Accord sedan...I never ride motorbikes in Thailand. As you say, getting rear-ended while on a bike might not end so well.

[Pattaya Spotter]

11 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

car or motorbike? certainly with a motorbike I can't turn right easily with pickups flying up the road

That's why I drive a car.

[scubascuba3]

23 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

That's why I drive a car.

Generally it's fine on a motorbike, but certain junctions are best avoided, that's one of them 

[IH8lokcdown]

On 2/2/2021 at 10:43 AM, redwood1 said:

 

Well logic says business can not pay out more money than they take in for any extended length of time....

 

logic has no place in Thailand.