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[jules spools]

I would contact them first before filing a dispute with the CC company.

I did. Hoping it's just a mix-up.

 

[oulipien]

I think that the influx of tech money

I always assumed that tech money, which has been prevalent since UM's founding, was their core audience in SF. Right down there in the Mission like that, and it's not like they sold cheap stuff.

 

[LA Guy]

It's sad to see them go like that. I think that the influx of tech money and casualwear over the recent years was diametrically opposed to their wheelhouse (Americana with Japanese eclecticism). While there are pockets of folks with unique tastes, I'm afraid their recent buys + collabs were a reflection of their trying to cater to what locals wanted. They offered me an opportunity to work full-time there last year, crazy to think their closing up happened so quickly after.

Every time I was in there over the past half decade, it was mostly filled with TechBros (tm) who were clearly new to fashion looking for jeans and pretty basic shirts. I assume that outfits like Taylor Stitch were able to fill that niche at a much more palatable price level for most guys.

 

[dadave]

Sad to see another one go in SF if true. I was bummed Acrimony SF closed. Eventually Steven Alan and Gant left SF. There's maybe one store i'd really shop at in SF but I've been having to make a trip to LA to do massive retail shopping once in a while.

 

[Fycus]

Controversial opinion, but imho 60-70% of their buys were not good due to trying to appease multiple crowds, and picking up oddball indy brands that don't sell. They tried at least, and brought in more indy brands than most popular e-commerce sites but that likely could have contributed to their demise. On top of their mostly mediocre buys, poor pricing structure (higher msrp than competing sites, little to no sales cycles), not great web presence, and general trajectory of brick-and-mortar retail- this is not a surprise at all to me.

Tech bros or not, brick and mortar retail is mostly awkward, and will likely always be unless innovation happens in the space. While it's nice to try stuff on in person, brick and mortar as we know it is dead. The lower performers are the first to go, but I anticipate a huge reduction of retailers in the next 16 months.

 

[eyeheartny]

Controversial opinion, but imho 60-70% of their buys were not good due to trying to appease multiple crowds, and picking up oddball indy brands that don't sell. They tried at least, and brought in more indy brands than most popular e-commerce sites but that likely could have contributed to their demise. On top of their mostly mediocre buys, poor pricing structure (higher msrp than competing sites, little to no sales cycles), not great web presence, and general trajectory of brick-and-mortar retail- this is not a surprise at all to me.

Tech bros or not, brick and mortar retail is mostly awkward, and will likely always be unless innovation happens in the space. While it's nice to try stuff on in person, brick and mortar as we know it is dead. The lower performers are the first to go, but I anticipate a huge reduction of retailers in the next 16 months.

Agreed with all of this. I'm more game than the average guy for some oddball stuff, but the oddballs that UM carried just weren't good. There are other retailers like SSENSE who carry unusual stuff that's much more on trend and worth looking at. Plus I totally agree with you about brick and mortar and a big reckoning coming. In some ways it almost doesn't make as much sense to have a physical location. I'd be curious to do a real apples to apples of the costs of shipping so customers can try stuff on versus the cost of a brick and mortar location. My guess is that for many retailers, an online-only presence would come out ahead finance-wise.

 

[cyc wid it]

They had some random customer(s) who bought out their limited Kapital stuff at full price every time. I'm still waiting to see it in the wild in SF.

 

[whatsthis]

Unionmade's physical SF location was a mess. It was crammed with stuff in no sense of order or direction. I could never really find anything anytime I went in there (website also sucked).

 

[grizzlygiant]

Love all this doom and gloom talk. In the meantime give our sale a chance so that we can avoid the reckoning. We have added a bunch of new items to the site and sale. https://milohshop.com/collections/sale

 

[cyc wid it]

Sad to see another one go in SF if true. I was bummed Acrimony SF closed. Eventually Steven Alan and Gant left SF. There's maybe one store i'd really shop at in SF but I've been having to make a trip to LA to do massive retail shopping once in a while.

M.A.C.

 

[LA Guy]

www.orvis.com - Save up to 50% on wear-now styles.

 

[Austinjhutch]

Just chiming in on UM; stumbled on to them slashing Alden prices Sunday AM and immediately picked up a pair of color 8 lw bluchers at 30% off, which even at that discount was super surprising since Aldens were obviously always excluded from site-wide discounts. Came over here Monday AM, saw a few posts alluding to their insolvency and sure enough somehow they'd advanced in one day to 50% off everything and store was basically cleaned out. Sad sight, definitely bought some of my "firsts" there over the last 10ish years, and yeah when it was still a relevant shop they always had a solid potpourri of assorted brands and were usually good for a few nice pickups here and there. Besides that unavoidable shipping fee, which they maintained until the very end, they'd cut some good deals for sure. But man their $10 shipping had to be the slowest of any paid domestic shipping, like for a while there in 2010-2012 you could get your order twice as fast from European merchants like tres bien while waiting 7-8 days for a few sweaters from UM. Anyway, totally thought they were gonna bail on those aldens I bought on Sunday, but they did end up filling the order and shoes will get to Brooklyn sometime next week. Man, such a funny feeling when you're browsing like 4-5 different shell aldens on clearance and in stock in sz 11s and 12s and its like youre in that raymond carver short story about the sad man having a yard sale.

 

[justsayno]

And the retailpocalypse in SF continues. It hit home the hardest when the Ralph Lauren shop downtown closed. That was the place to peruse RRL and purple label goods in person.

 

[noob in 89]

It hit home the hardest when the Ralph Lauren shop downtown closed. That was the place to peruse RRL and purple label goods in person.

I wonder if interest in those brands is declining. Going by eBay completed auctions, RRL and Purple Label are fetching way less than they used to compared to a few years ago.

 

[crazn]

Back when they had decent stuff, I couldn’t get UM to ship to my location. And gradually the buys became really off. Not weird or unwearable but just plain Low risk clones which doesn’t spark any interest whatsoever. The website was horrible imho.