The "Everything Must Go!" and "Nothing held back!" going-out-of-business signs that have become so ubiquitous in moribund Montgomery County have popped up at Congressional Plaza on Rockville Pike. Performance Bicycle Shop is the latest victim. The store is holding a closing sale with prices up to 40% off. Montgomery County has suffered a net loss of more than 2100 retail jobs since 2000, according to the Maryland Retailers Association.
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ReplyDeleteThe company filed for bankruptcy in November and is closing all of its stores nationwide.
ReplyDeleteOther Performance Bicycle stores which are closing include those in Tysons Corner, Reston and Springfield.
ReplyDeleteThe store in Gaithersburg at Muddy Branch Rd is also closing.
ReplyDeleteYea, but getting all shrill about the "Moribund" County is such a better sound bite than the truth about all the stores closing nation wide.
ReplyDeleteDyer has a serve case of Chicken Little Syndrome.
DeleteThe parent company of Performance Bicycle has entered into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and as a result there have been significant changes to our businesses. Currently, all Performance Bicycle stores are holding Store Closing Sales. Here is what it means for you, our valued customers.
ReplyDeleteRobert really needs a thesaurus
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declining, in decline, on the decline, waning, dying, stagnating, stagnant, decaying, crumbling, atrophying, obsolescent, on its last legs
"our valued customers."
ReplyDeleteBeats the heck out of "moron. Punch yourself in the face."
You're such an idiot of a troll, Robert.
ReplyDeleteSo many losses at Federal Realty's moribund property. Tower Records, Whole Foods, now Performance Bicycles. Probably Hallmark any day now, too.
ReplyDelete"Montgomery County has lost its competitive edge" is the headline of a recent WaPo article about the loss of Amazon headquarters.
ReplyDeleteI'm also starting to see MS-13 gang members around my neighborhood in Gaithersburg again.Nice job MoCo!
How are you certain that they as MS-13 gang members in your neighborhood? Is there something specific about them that lets you know that they are not just gang members, but members of that specific gang?
ReplyDeleteyes there is are certain cloths MS-13 members wear.Blue Nike Cortez shoes are one thing they wear to identify as MS-13.have you never heard of a gang wearing Gang colors? Are you completely ignorant?MS-13 gang colors are reported by fbi
DeleteBrown people wearing blue shoes. LOL
DeleteYeah I guess you're right,MS-13 must be all part of my imagination.I probably imagined that a 20 year old female MS-13 was given 95 years prison time in Montgomery County a few months ago.Oh,and I'm sure that I was a mistake when the local media reported that an 18 year old man was killed by being stabbed 156 times right off the street I grew up on in Gaithersburg.Brown people wearing blue shoes.Didnt Elvis Presley sing a song about Blue Shoes?
Deletehttps://www.newsweek.com/ms-13-gangs-sessions-nike-cortez-shoes-el-salvador-organization-east-coast-673940?amp=1
DeleteHave you been banned in Gaithersburg? Sam Eig has been dead for as long as the man himself now. There's a lot of non-moribund action in that city that you're ignoring. The latest being the grand opening of the newest dining and nightlife (your favorite activity) spot Yard House. What no freebies for you Scary Moochie?
ReplyDelete2:16: You're correct that Yard House failed to invite me to any press events prior to the opening. I don't know that they even held any, though. If they did and failed to do their homework about the local media, that would make them look foolish, not me. Never heard from them. Wasn't invited. Marketing 101.
DeleteIf you had bothered to ask you would know they did their homework and after reading your blog decided against you. #punchyourself
Deletehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse
ReplyDeleteThe following quote comes directly from the webpage of Performance Bicycle. "The parent company of Performance Bicycle has entered into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and as a result there have been significant changes to our businesses. Currently, all Performance Bicycle stores are holding Store Closing Sales. Here is what it means for you, our valued customers:"
ReplyDeleteTo suggest that the closing of this location or any other located in Montgomery County, and thus blame said closings on a "Moribund" economy shows an extreme lack of research, and poor journalism on the part of this reporter. Without knowing the facts, you lash out at a government body repeatedly blaming it for the state of retail or employment conditions.
You will never get elected to any position when your dismal background in terms of the simple facts, mirrors that of the sad current occupant of the White House. Simply put, you ignore the truth repeated.
12:12: Get a load of our resident troll, in tears because I've brought the truth about his corrupt employers out in the open. But it's not just me - the Washington Post, Washington Business Journal and Sage Policy Group have all started to admit what I've been reporting for years - Montgomery County's economy is moribund.
DeleteThe official U.S. Government statistics definitively show that Montgomery County is even being beaten by Culpeper and Rappahannock counties in the 21st century. Humiliating!
While I might "never get elected" when your dismal Washington Post colludes with your bosses to never report on my candidacy, Donald Trump is still your president.
What do "the Washington Post, Washington Business Journal, Sage Policy Group, official U.S. Government statistics, Culpeper and Rappahannock counties" have to do with the price of tea in China?
DeleteThis chain is closing ALL OF ITS STORES, NATIONWIDE.
Once again you make up for poor writing and blather with multiple photos of the same thing. Good thing you aren't in a web design class: EPIC FAIL.
ReplyDelete6:46: LOL - - Cowardly taking cheap shots from the peanut gallery in a dark room behind a computer screen at a pioneer in hyperlocal news publishing is not a strong position from which to accuse others of failure.
DeleteDecember 13, 2018 at 10:26 AM - That was a "covfefe".
DeleteThis bird-brained, bat-shit crazy little prick, will delete any comment opposing his point of view. Use your finger to unclog your retentive area. You may enjoy it.
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