Oh No! A-E Cabazon Outlet Closing!

[JLibourel]

Just called the Allen-Edmonds outlet in Cabazon, California to inquire about possibly ordering some of the on-sale items and was greatly saddened to learn that Allen-Edmonds is planning to close their store at the Desert Hills Premium Outlets in Cabazon on April 23.

Oh well, no good thing lasts forever, as they say. I've got a lot of good memories of rushing out to that place to get more A-Es, but I haven't been there since August, 2007.

I somehow wonder if my decreasing my purchases there had anything to do with A-E's decision to close the place. At least I should be well supplied with A-Es for the rest of my earthly sojourn unless the house burns down or a tsunami hits East Long Beach and I survive the disaster.

On a more serious note, I wonder if the opening of the A-E store in South Coast Plaza had anything to do with the decision to deep-six the Cabazon outlet.

Anyway, any of you SoCal boys who want to take advantage of the Cabazon outlet have only a little over two more months to do so.

 

[sho'nuff]

sad to see them leave desert hills premium outlet. but i dont think it may have to do with the south coast boutique. every time i walk past that store, it is empty!

 

[embowafa]

That sucks....although it doesn't surprise me.

The last time I was there (during busy christmas shopping season) I was in the store for a good 30 minutes and not a single soul walked in other than me.

 

[jmix1]

Originally Posted by JLibourel

On a more serious note, I wonder if the opening of the A-E store in South Coast Plaza had anything to do with the decision to deep-six the Cabazon outlet.


I like the layout of the South Coast Plaza store. Each shoe style has a label with the model name in front of it. I've never seen a shoe store do so. Quite appropriate and useful for AE with their hundreds of model names.

Sorry to see the Desert Hills store go, but not surprised.

 

[Irond Will]

Seems to me that SoCal has got to be the worst place to try and sell dressy shoes of the AE stripe.

 

[RJman]

Where are the pictures of your special AE shoes, J-Lib? Was this shown to be a hoax?

 

[JLibourel]

Originally Posted by Irond Will

Seems to me that SoCal has got to be the worst place to try and sell dressy shoes of the AE stripe.

Arguably so, but when you've got a population base of around 20 million people, a significant number of men are going to want to buy shoes like A-Es, even if the percentage relative to the overall population is smaller than elsewhere.

 

[polar-lemon]

Originally Posted by RJman

Where are the pictures of your special AE shoes, J-Lib? Was this shown to be a hoax?

+10000000

 

[earthdragon]

We were up there last Monday, (on the way back from Palm Springs) and it was a 'Ghost Town'.
My wife was 'pissed' as Sergio Rossi have pulled out of the center as well.

 

[embowafa]

Originally Posted by earthdragon

We were up there last Monday, (on the way back from Palm Springs) and it was a 'Ghost Town'.
My wife was 'pissed' as Sergio Rossi have pulled out of the center as well.

my desire to go back there is now completely gone.

with the Ralph Lauren store getting rid of all their men's clothing and AE closing, there's really nothing left to buy there.

 

[JLibourel]

I suspect the whole of Desert Hills Premium Outlets was hit by a double whammy. First the high gas prices discouraged people from going there, and then, as prices declined, the whole economy tanked!

I didn't know about the Ralph Lauren outlet there no longer stocking menswear. I though Ralph was going to open another store there. Possibly it was going to handle the "guy stuff."

With the Allen-Edmonds store gone, I don't know why I would ever want to visit that outlet mall again. The same chain has a smaller outlet mall at Carlsbad which is much closer to my home and a more pleasant drive into the bargain. (They also have one in Camarillo, but I think that's almost as far as Cabazon from my home.)

Except for my love affair with the A-E outlet in Cabazon, I have bought very, very little at outlet malls. As Scott Omelianuk remarked, the merchandise is either stuff other people didn't want to buy or it's stuff that is stocked specifically to appeal to the kind of people who shop in outlet malls.

 

[polar-lemon]

Originally Posted by JLibourel

I suspect the whole of Desert Hills Premium Outlets was hit by a double whammy. First the high gas prices discouraged people from going there, and then, as prices declined, the whole economy tanked!

I didn't know about the Ralph Lauren outlet there no longer stocking menswear. I though Ralph was going to open another store there. Possibly it was going to handle the "guy stuff."

With the Allen-Edmonds store gone, I don't know why I would ever want to visit that outlet mall again. The same chain has a smaller outlet mall at Carlsbad which is much closer to my home and a more pleasant drive into the bargain. (They also have one in Camarillo, but I think that's almost as far as Cabazon from my home.)

Except for my love affair with the A-E outlet in Cabazon, I have bought very, very little at outlet malls. As Scott Omelianuk remarked, the merchandise is either stuff other people didn't want to buy or it's stuff that is stocked specifically to appeal to the kind of people who shop in outlet malls.

Are special edition spectators going to be on closeout?

 

[embowafa]

Originally Posted by JLibourel

I didn't know about the Ralph Lauren outlet there no longer stocking menswear. I though Ralph was going to open another store there. Possibly it was going to handle the "guy stuff."


quite the contrary. Apparently, ALL men's wear (i'm talking high quality Polo, RLBL, RLPL) was centralized in the New York (Woodbury?) outlet.

All they have now is the women's store and the crappy polo/chaps store.

 

[DocHolliday]

Originally Posted by JLibourel

Except for my love affair with the A-E outlet in Cabazon, I have bought very, very little at outlet malls. As Scott Omelianuk remarked, the merchandise is either stuff other people didn't want to buy or it's stuff that is stocked specifically to appeal to the kind of people who shop in outlet malls.
I am the type of person who shops at outlet malls, so let that be a warning to you all.

 

[JLibourel]

I was in the A-E store at South Coast Plaza last night and learned the real reason why the Cabazon store is being closed. Apparently it was doing well enough to satisfy the management of Allen-Edmonds, but the people who owned the Premium Outlets chain require that every store do a certain minimum dollar amount of business to stay in the mall. The A-E outlet wasn't meeting that minimum, so they were, in essence, kicked out by the ownership of the mall.

I know so little of matters of business that I don't really understand the principle involved here. If the A-E store was meeting its stipulated rent, I don't know why they would kick it out.