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When was the last time you shopped with Brookfield? They've had a total staff renewal over the last few years and that store is excellent. Give them a try.
Admit it has been about 4 yrs ago, used to go to Milwaukee 2 or 3 times a year as company is headquartered there, but since I retired, haven't gone in about 4 yrs (of course COVID messed up one of those years). Love Milwaukee/Brookfield area and looking to going later this summer, take Granddaughter to Zoo, visit the Mitchel Park Domes, general tourist stuff...and of course hit up the AE stores (as I like to stay at Pfister Hotel when there)
 

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Admit it has been about 4 yrs ago, used to go to Milwaukee 2 or 3 times a year as company is headquartered there, but since I retired, haven't gone in about 4 yrs (of course COVID messed up one of those years). Love Milwaukee/Brookfield area and looking to going later this summer, take Granddaughter to Zoo, visit the Mitchel Park Domes, general tourist stuff...and of course hit up the AE stores (as I like to stay at Pfister Hotel when there)
Ami Jo runs that store now and she's just good people. I think you'll appreciate her.
 

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Family funeral today so black Parks got the nod. Didn't get a chance to take a Hober tie photo!

Hope everyone had a good hump day.

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Hey guys.

We've seen some talk about the closure of some of our outlet centers recently and wanted to shed some light on that topic...

Outlet centers have changed over the years. As you know, many outlet stores carry lesser product that is produced specifically to be sold at a lower price. Meanwhile, we continue to produce the majority of our products ourselves and our outlets carry true factory seconds.

This means:
1. We can't build a model for the outlet stores. What they carry is a byproduct of our mistakes. This makes size integrity and class integrity hard to maintain.
2. The quality of the materials is the same as the shoes our full-line stores and website carry, so the cost of goods is the same. Our price points are higher than the "outlet customer" is historically used to paying, as a result. Consequently, a large portion of the sales in our outlet stores is done with customers who are not walking through the doors. That makes physical store location a tough thing to nail.

We've closed a handful of outlets to get the outlet store count to a place that makes sense for now, and that we can build from. That might mean some non-traditional physical sites in the future. Warehouse space, mixed use, etc. The brick and mortar retail landscape is definitely evolving. It has been for years, and the consumer responses post-pandemic will likely accelerate those changes.

I can assure you we are not going to stop making our own shoes. If anything, we're exploring ways to expand the capability of our Wisconsin factory. (Did you know we've purchased new corner-stitching machinery in Port and are test producing Strand sneakers there?)

Another guarantee is we won't stop messing up some of the shoes we make (?) so outlet stores will continue to be an important part of our retail business - Just not as many as we had in the past.

Port, Brookfield, Charleston, and Mebane remain open, so I encourage you to support those businesses as you can.

Ashley, is the Roosevelt field mall location in Hicksville, long Island ny an outlet or retail location? As I stop by there sometimes when I'm going to the island in the summer for the beach.
 

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Having a hard time deciding if I should return these AE seconds Woolymoks which just arrived today. I spoke to the salesperson at the store and asked what was the defect with these. He put me on hold and appeared to pull the shoes, then told me he could find nothing at all wrong with them, so I purchased them.

As can be seen in the photo, the distance between the toe caps and the brogueing strip at the vamp is clearly very different from shoe to shoe. I keep looking at this and not sure it will not always irk me when I wear these. But the shoe itself is better IRL than in the photos and I know I would wear these often. No possibility of exchange as these were the only pair in my size. These were on sale last week for $181.

What would you do?
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