Posted by Joe on July 18, 2003 at 13:56:06:
In Reply to: Re: Business Gone posted by Carl on July 18, 2003 at 13:06:19:
> Nobody cares? I do. The Chamber of Commerce does. Individual business
> owners do.
> I talked with Arnie Moss before Joe's Bootery closed. He had shoes in
the
> window that were $9 less on Market St. than on the Internet. Did anyone
> check before they bought from out of towners?
He may have been into the 2nd year of his going out of business sale by
then but when he was open for business full tilt his prices were higher
than the shoes store across the street, way higher the Final Score on the
Net, Dick's in Monroeville or a place in the Butler Mall, the same goes
for his clothing- higher....the average person shops for price@ quality,
the business owner in Kittanning has to appeal to something that Walmart
and these other stores don't offer or offer little of.
> Marketing what you have is the key.
> Carl
> www.local4all.com
> > > > I was trying to make a list of the businesses that has come and
gone
> in Armstrong County over the years,How may can you add to it.
> > > > Harbison Walker--Brick Yard --Templeton
> > > > Kittanning Refractories--Brick Yard--Kittanning
> > > > Elk's Brewery--Kittanning
> > > > Meadow Gold Dairy--Kittanning
> > > > Essex--Kittanning
> > > > Five Rubber--Kittanning
> > > > PPG--Ford City
> > > > Jane's Way--Dept. Store.--Kitt.
> > > > Montgomery Ward's--Kitt.
> > > > McConnel Watersins--Kittanning
> > > > McNease Brick Tard--Kitt.--Running partialy
> > > > How Many Can You Add?
> > > Why the list? why add to it?
> > > we know that the outside world is miles ahead of us. Why beat
> yourself up over it? We in armstrong co. are accustomed to apathy. Deal
> with it, it aint gonna change, ever. No one 'round these parts wants it
> to.
> > > If you want to see things, do things, get in your car and drive
away
> from here - just like everyone else.
> > Maybe with a list of businesses that has left to take to your
officials
> and ask them what they have ever done to replace any of them,I agree
> nothing will change,As I stated before, Kittanning will always be a
> retirement town. I had to leave to find a job to support my family and
now
> I have returned to retire. Really what is here or what not is here dont
> bother me, But I wouldent want to see some one else pull up roots as I
did
> and have to leave their home and family for fifteen years, I think it
> would be good to let the one's responsable know just what has left this
> area,But Im sure they already do