GAP Might Close Its Doors FOR GOOD

Whatever will the Gap Playlist troll do now?

I'll buy my clothes at the same places I already do. Never shopped at Gap (sorry, Playlist Troll) anyway.

Goodwill, same as always.

[quote] I'll buy my clothes at the same places I already do.

Where is that R2?

Old Navy and Banana Republic, too?

I'm an old guy, so it was never my thing. I'm currently liking Duluth Trading for underwear and pants. But with self-isolating, I'm rarely out of sweatpants and lounge wear.

ever since they changed their sizes I couldn’t wear their clothes anyway. When did a Large stop being a Large??

R6 - Are the undies from Duluth Trading really that great? Are they as good as UnderArmour?

I’ll go naked.

If GAP closes it will be for good!

Gap has been drowning for a long time now. This is a merciful killing.

Banana Republic is next but Old Navy will continue.

I'm tall and thin, and would be sorry to see BR (online) fall off the list of resources.

R8 I've never had any UnderArmour, so I can't make a direct comparison. And I haven't gotten a full range of the underwear from Duluth, so I'm not yet an expert. What I've gotten so far, I've liked. I've been cheap so far and have only bought the ones that have been on clearance, but I'll expand my range as I need them. I really like the pants, and am glad I have a brick-and-mortar store that I was able to try them on instead of ordering online (the sizes seem to run small). Since buying pants in the store, I've ordered the same sizes online and the fit is EXACT every time. I've had other brands where the same size pants could fit differently in the waist and the length from one pair to another.

No sympathy for corporations

R11 - I think I read a few years back in the WSJ that OLD NAVY was the only brand consistently making money.

Caftan World.

F&F OP for not posting a source

This is completely unacceptable.

The Blouse Barn.

Completely not true.

I have plenty of sources who confirm the opposite.

I haven't bought anything at The Gap for at least 6 years now.

My asshole has not closed it’s doors, thank you very much! Research people!

Who owns The Gap these days? One problem with retail life now is that everything is owned, not by corporations making shit because that's their mission, but owned by investment slush funds whose only purpose is to make lots of money. If they aren't making lots of money, the investment funds pull the money plug and the company dies.

This is also why so many things you buy have increased in price so much in the past 10 years. The companies were bought out by investor funds and they demand top return on their investments.

Only Old Navy, the Wal Mart of the 3 brands, was selling to anyone. BR was making some sales to petites and Asians a a few yuppies and GAP has been a zombie since the 90s. I am predicting a few chains and, definitely department stores that have been in the red forever, will become obsolete. This virus was the straw that broke the camel's back. When eh malls finally re-open, there will be major changes over the next year.

Melania is closing?

Old Navy is not doing well.

But Gap and its siblings are not closing down.

#FakeNews

None of the Gap companies were able to pay rent for April it was announced on the news this morning.

This is just awful. It’s jobs, and affordable clothes. Sad to hear.

Gap over expanded. Over a decade ago there was one on every NYC block

I haven’t purchased clothing since the passing of IM.

[quote] affordable clothes

You can get cheaper at Walmart

Yeah, bye Felicia. Never shopped at you ever.

Where do the Under-40s buy their clothes then? Back in the day Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic was the place for casual clothes.

Um, Amazon?

Chess King, dear.

Merry Go Round

Lane Bryant

[quote]Where is that [R2]?

Goodwill, JC Penney, at various Scottish festivals (to support the pipes/drums bands and local vendors), Boarders, and Zumiez.

Affordable?? Oh my sides!

That’s the problem with GAP. I’m not going to pay $30 for a T-Shirt and $75 for a button down when you can find the same styles AND quality at Target.

I used to shop at GAP all the time in the 90’s. The looks were fun and the prices were more than reasonable. It wasn’t dirt cheap, but you weren’t going to break the bank either.

GAP has really been struggling with its identity/aesthetic for the past decade+ and meanwhile prices continued to rise, rise, rise. A deadly combo.

A dead hooker.

The Gap really had its moments in the late 80s and early 90s, but then it had passed.

Gap was most successful in 1998-2000 by far. Highest sales ever.

WHAT!!? The Bonton is still open right? This CV thing has gone on long enough. What about Merry-Go-Round? I was just thinking about getting some slacks and tops at Chess King this weekend, maybe one of those skinny keyboard neckties. I haven't been to the mall in a few years, I'm sure it's still doing fine and not a tumbleweed infested boarded up shanty town.

R3, I swear to dog, I was just trying to calculate the odds of my favorite Goodwill surviving this. Over the years, I’ve gotten to know the employees there, and it breaks my heart that they’re not working. And I miss the fun and the treasures, too.

Also sorry for any business that is suffering because of this fucking scourge.

r43 Businesses are suffering because of Merica. Completely closing a hyper-capitalist society for three months because we don't have a health care system? Putting every small business, Mom and Pop store out of business, funneling even more money into Amazon, which is now essentially a "company store" for all Americans.

In 70 years they aren't gonna praise Americans like the British during the blitz of WW2, for defeating the scourge of Coronovirus. They're gonna say we started a great depression, and destroyed our way of life forever because we were scared of a new highly contagious flu, had no leadership, education, or health care. Divided into shit-talking enclaves were burned down the house, simply because most Americans can't read a peer-reviewed paper (or even know what one is), and believed a weird orange reality star/real estate huckster President, a scarf lady, and a prognosticating elf who talked to us like we are 7 year olds.

Rue 21, bitches. And I will look fabulous!

I hope people are saving the recent playlists

I will have to shop at Jay Jacobs.

Financial trouble? They need to tighten the belt. Just cinch it!

Weird thread for all that truth, R44.

Upcoming, we’ll see a lot of this. Drip...drip...drip. Lots of businesses closing because of this disease. It’s not a good time to have loans out to big box stores.

Remember when one gap closes another opens!

I had a gap between my two front teeth once but now I don't.

Um... Maybe no one will give that much of a fuck.

Cyd Charrise was in Paris with her husband and kid and flew back to America after the trouble. Seems like we make it more of a thing than it was then. 2012 to now was longer than that war. People danced to forget all that shit and rightfully so. Fuck all this politics bullshit. It all boils down to speaking out and not being afraid to look foolish when something is wrong.

Nordstrom. But I suspect GAP didn't pay rent because they recognized that they can play the CV card to file bankruptcy, get out of the leases of the worst non-performing stores, reorganize after downsizing, and be back in business until they destroy themselves again.

Is American Eagle still a thing ? A few years ago thats where a lot of the young men I knew shopped .

I'll just go to the Banana Republic or Old Navy instead.

I don't care what anyone says, I love The GAP. Always have. They're an iconic American brand and I hope they survive this.

Some of my favorite shirts come from Old Navy. They do retro style plaids, prints etc. that are neat but not cloying.

gap got boring as has Banana republic. I haven’t bought anything at either place in a decade.

If you get email from Gap, check out the newsletter they sent out tonight!

Pretty exciting! I’m very honored!

If that happens, the GapPlaylistsGuy will most likely grab an AK-47 and go on a shooting spree.

I used to love the Gap's size-consistency. If you knew you wore size 33/30 Gap jeans, you could LITERALLY run into the Gap on your way to the airport to fly to a 4-week cruise, by 4 pairs of 33/30 jeans without bothering to try them on, and know with absolute confidence that each one would fit perfectly... just like the last 14 pairs of 33/30 jeans you bought from Gap.

Oh, and Gap USED to pre-shrink their fabric BEFORE cutting it, so it didn't randomly fucking shrink after washing like Levi's did.

Sadly, those days are no more. Sometime in the early 00s, Gap became as bad as Levi's (where 7 pairs of nominally-identical jeans all fit differently... and the ones that DO fit WON'T fit after the first wash). Now, I just buy jeans from Walmart. Wrangler's size-consistency isn't as good as Gap's WAS, but is better than Gap-today & Levi's, and is cheap enough to not be the end of the world if a pair doesn't fit after washing.

Fuck, I miss 1990s Gap.

Oh, and I miss J. Riggings, too... their clothes literally disintegrated in the wash, but they were cheap enough to wear 3 times & not CARE, and were basically Hilfiger & Polo knock-offs. I shopped there 2-3x/week in college, and ultimately owned probably 20% of everything they sold in at least one color.

GapPlayListsGuy lives in Texas R61, so it will be an easy firearm to get.

I didn't even realize that Gap was still around. I thought they closed quite a few of them. They had a good run. At least we won't have to see their crappy print ads anymore with celebrities.

[quote] so it didn't randomly fucking shrink after washing like Levi's did.

Yeah it shrank randomly. I'm sure those gallons of Haagen Dazs and Cheetos had nothing to do with it.

As long as I have my Jordache jeans, I'm happy!

[quote] No sympathy for corporations

Won't someone PLEASE think of the shopbottoms!

I just got a $6 coupon for any Gap item.

It was the winnings from some lawsuit.

[quote] If you get email from Gap,

If I get email from GAP it goes straight to my spam folder where it belongs.

> Yeah it shrank randomly. I'm sure those gallons of Haagen Dazs and Cheetos had nothing to do with it.

Er, you obviously have never purchased a pair of Levi's jeans. They will absolutely, positively NEVER fit the same way after you've washed and dried them as they do at the store. Gap's shrinkage isn't quite as bad or random as Levi's, but it's still frustrating as hell to have to try on 17 pairs of jeans spanning 3 nominal waist sizes and 2 or 3 nominal inseam lengths to try and find one or two pairs that actually fit, then try to guess to extent to which they'll shrink anyway. Fuck that shit. It's insane. There's no excuse for not getting the fabric on the bolt to shrink as much as it's GOING to shrink BEFORE they cut and sew it into jeans.

Financial analysts are already predicting that Gap will go bankrupt.

[quote]I don't care what anyone says, I love The GAP. Always have. They're an iconic American brand

So was Tower Records.

R38 is right. Target has upped the ante with 100 percent cottons and collections for the masses from the likes of Missoni and Lagerfeld. Why bother with the Gap? When I purchase more expensive clothes, I can go to Lucky, Nordstrom rack (same stuff) or try my luck at TJ Max. Why bother with a 39 dollar t-shirt in a store where they haven't noticed the 90's are over.

[quote] Whatever will the Gap Playlist troll do now?

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The last time I bought a T shirt at the gap, the colors leaked.

Last time I took a leak it was all sorts of colors

Where will that Aspie Playlist Dork get his culture?

Does Hallmark have a card to celebrate this event?

The economy is bad for clothes related businesses. We drove by a dry cleaning place and she was out there with a huge sandwich board flagging people down. Suddenly I realized I haven’t worn a pressed shirt in months.

Everyone shops at Zara now. The gap died years ago.

50 years old. I forgot that Gap had been around forever.

Never liked their clothes. Occasionally something would look good at a distance but the details never held up. Shirts were always cut oddly and oversized, puffing out for a big guy that, in my case, wasn't there: make maternity shirts; button placement and other details would be "off." But it didn't matter because you could never buy anything there without seeing the same thing worn everywhere.

My only Gap success: a $9 close-out sale pair of jeans in an odd tan color a very un-Gap subtly herringbone sort of weave that fit perfectly and lasted years as one of my favorites.

I hope they bring back bookstores!

They opened a NEW bookstore near me in London in the train station. It lasted about 6 months.

When I first bought clothes at GAP, I was wearing size 8. But two years ago when I last bought from them, I wore size 4. So their customers have been getting more and more obese apparently. Maybe their customers no longer shop there because they are dead.

Ah the Gap. My first boyfriend worked there, 1999, he got me employee discounts on their crappy clothes. Actually, I have a few things from the Gap that I've had for years and love, but most things from them have been trash for a long time, cheapest-quality materials and dyes. And their whole aesthetic is so outdated. They didn't change with the times, now they fail.

[quote]I love The GAP. Always have. They're an iconic American brand

[quote]So was Tower Records.

DC eldergays, back in the '80s and/or early '90s, did there use to be a Gap store in the Tower Records building at 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, maybe on the 20th Street side of the building?

I'll go to the Gap factory store to buy T shirts occasionally. It's very hit or miss there, though. A friend of mine worked at Old Navy and I always thought it was kind of funny that he would say that only housewives ever shopped there.

Gap reopened many stores in Texas yesterday, with more around the world reopening soon.

Not dead. Not dying.

Good R88

I thought Old Navy was splitting from the GAP.

The GAP stores in NYC have announced that they will be replaced by a much needed chain.

Once was enough, r91.

R90, the split was nixed back in March. It never happened and now will not happen.

The company is stronger together.

[quote]GapPlaylistsGuy

Loved by many, adored by the rest.

I buy ALL of my clothes at COSTCO. Socks , underwear and t-shirts I buy online.

[Quote] Gap reopened many stores in Texas yesterday, with more around the world reopening soon.

Like that won't turn into a total disaster for the state of Texas and every other place that is reopening their economies now. Face it, Gap Playlist Troll. Gap is on its last breath. Soon, it will be no more.

Enjoy this fantastic October 2001 Gap In-Store Playlist on my Spotify!

All Gap Inc. stores are taking several measures to help with the safety of its customers and employees.

Read the press release (or "Look it up," as Madonna would say).

LOL I predicted the Coronavirus spike at R96. GapPlaylistTroll is partially responsible for the deaths of Gap store employees and customers with his insane, borderline obsessive desire to save a dying retail outlet.

Speaking of the failing institution that is The Gap.

[Quote] GAP – Falling into Bankruptcy? The company, which owns Banana Republic and Old Navy, announced it would close 230 stores prior to the pandemic. Reuters reported in late April, the company stated that it was suspending rent and needed to borrow more money. Fortune reports that CEO, Sonia Syngal recently called on landlords to be flexible and work with retailers to get through the biggest crisis in retail’s modern history.

[Bold] The San Francisco Chronicle predicts that the retailer will be in bankruptcy court [/Bold]

[Quote] the company is three notches into junk territory

[Quote] Gap’s future lies with Bankruptcy Court

Give it up, GapPlaylistTroll. By the end of the year, the middle of the next at the latest, Gap will be no more. You'll have to obsessively post about something more relevant to the year 2020.

Isn't Kayne supposed to save Gap he has 10 year contract doesn't he?

Who needs clothes when you don't have a job or money to buy grocery, right?

Who needs new clothes when there is no place to wear them.

We had a Gap and Banana Republic on our shopping street. Gap closed a year ago, BR women closed the start of the shutdown and never reopened. BR Men is hanging on by a thread.

There are TWO Old Navy's literally one and a half blocks apart. Always busy. The second one was put together during the pandemic and just opened.

I want my Britannia jeans, bitches!

I immediately thought of Bill Hader Shrieking Fireman

A very healthy retail chain and not at all one that will file for bankruptcy, likely by January or February. /s

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R79 - please...nightmare echoes in my head of the one thing my roommate does which is driving me to the brink of insanity. She is ALWAYS screaming that this has to end, she needs to go back into the world, put on nice clothes, have a reason to do her hair and nails...her nervous ulcer is acting up because of it...honestly it's non-stop.