Posted by Carl on July 18, 2003 at 14:26:11:
In Reply to: Re: Business Gone posted by Joe on July 18, 2003 at 13:56:06:
I'm not sure that anyone on the Hill realizes that before Wal-Mart moved in, they crunched some numbers and knew that they would make money on Kittanning, even factoring in the cost of building a new store. Has anyone locally looked at a cooperative effort to get better prices? That's something that we have to consider. I went over to Sprankle's today and bought my groceries there. I know Randy doesn't have rock-bottom prices but I want his store to stay in town.
> > 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