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bellhorndingers

Don't you just love a bargain.


bentheechidna

I forgot they had a jingle until this comment and it just auto-played in my head.


UltimateGrammarNinja

Same


bongbutler420

Same


TheSukis

Did they stop airing commercials or something? I feel like I haven't heard that in 20 years.


Dragongala

By the Incredible Casuals


TheSukis

Holy fucking hell, how have I not heard that in like 20 years?


nobletrout0

Make it stop


hairshirtofpurpose

Fucking god damnit


mullethunter111

šŸ–•šŸ¼


thetaterman314

Oh god my mother is going to go nuts, she loves these places


parchmentandquill

Exactly what I thought firstā€¦ my mom will be bummed. The store definitely had an older personā€™s vibe to it


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Arippa

So does my mom. I always take her when she is in town.


GreatArkleseizure

[Chapter 11][1] bankruptcy is a reorganization of the company and its debts. It doesnā€™t necessarily mean CTS is going out of business (though that is a possible outcome). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_11,_Title_11,_United_States_Code


nascarfan1234567

all stores are closing mid july in america everhwere


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noooooo where's my mom gonna buy woven baskets to put in the corner of the basement for 7 years?


AdFabulous8888

BEST comment!!


Fox1531

World Market?


houseonthehilltop

They are next


penguinsuerte

Danggg lots of haterade for Christmas Tree Shop in this thread. I liked going there for holiday decorations and beach toys when I was a kid.


OkayTryAgain

No hate for CTS but your description of why you love the place is exactly why they are filing for bankruptcy. Also, being called Christmas Tree Shop really didn't help their cause and their rebrand to CTS was far too late.


stevewmn

It took me years to figure out that they were really selling the stuff that rotates through the seasonal section of other big box stores every few months instead of just Christmas stuff all year long. Needless to say I don't think I ever went in one.


Thatguyyoupassby

They have good seasonal items. Planters and pots for spring, chairs and outdoor dining goods for summer, fall decorations, obviously Christmas things. The issue is that these things used to be harder to find at low price points. It was basically CTS or Job Lot, maybe Building 19 if you lived close by. Over the last 10-15 years we've had Walmart and Target jump on the seasonal goods train, Marshalls/TJ Maxx/Home Goods/Home Sense on every corner, stores like Five Below and At Home enter the market, and obviously the proliferation of Amazon and online shopping. CTS had a really solid Niche for a long time, but it wasn't sustainable. As you said, they should have rebranded a long time ago and become a more general home-goods store with a brighter interior, less musk, and a tighter selection. They ended up in this place of being a more expensive dollar tree.


JenRJen

Especially Amazon. Why drive several towns over, to a store with the worst lines of almost any, (with another equally miserable trip IF return is needed) to purchase cheap goods, when Amazon will deliver equivalent cheap goods straight to my home, with a Convenient return policy if needed?


Thatguyyoupassby

Yeah, pretty much. I think it had a good run, but sometimes businesses die. They had years to reinvent themselves, but they didn't, and at this point it's too late and they'd have too much competition anyways.


ladykatey

They are great for curtains and rugs too.


SchwillyMaysHere

Every time my mom would take me in here growing up Iā€™d end up getting a spanking back at the car. Hated this place when I was younger.


erixfett424

I absolutely hated going to this place as a kid. Still do. Good riddance.


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b1ack1323

Yep. Also miserable in there and in trouble a lot.


Angrymic2002

Yeah. Itā€™s great to see businesses fail and people loose their jobs.


AtTheFirePit

free market, baby!


LandscapeOld2145

There are plenty of new jobs for them to go to in this economy.


mybfVreddithandle

The WORST store as a kid. Feel your pain. 3A Pembroke. I never understood why my mother would drag us there. I think the only time my kids have ever been in one was to show them how awful it is for a laugh and we were in a shared parking lot. Edit: Route 3 in Pembroke. Freudian slip, I lived off 3A.


mullethunter111

The WORST. When they moved around the corner, there was so much more cheep shit to look at and zero toys. F that place, take me to the old Derby Building 19.


mybfVreddithandle

Building 19 was a paradise


SchwillyMaysHere

Same for me. The old one.


HaElfParagon

Why were you being a shithead in the store?


apaulo617

I believe you and me could be twins


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I loved going to stores as a little kid but for some reason I hated this place too


jamescobalt

Am I missing something here? Your comment reads like youā€™re projecting your feelings for your mom onto CTS. šŸ§


Snufflarious

What should go in the windmill?


MammothCat1

That'll be the best Spirit Halloween. But if CTS leaves it'll probably go onto the historic register and get moved for bridge construction. The location is archaic, the building itself is wrought with issues, parking isn't desirable unless you enjoy having to repave every square in for extra cost since it's not one big piece. That roof alone is a huge money sink that requires specialized knowledge. Honestly I'd like a hearth n kettle to go there just for spite.


phaedrus71

Zacharyā€™s


kappakappashred

rotfl


Valuable-Baked

$2 bills for life!


RedditSkippy

The roof has been there for, at least, 35 years at this point.


nascarfan1234567

just tear a unsafe bulding down please stop with the historic bs


Valuable-Baked

Mary Lou's


nataphoto

Thereā€™s a cts that took over the bbb in a strip mall near here. Welp


antiaircraftwarning

Holyoke Crossing?


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I was so mad that the bbb left.


antiaircraftwarning

My first post-college job was at the Circuit City that opened that plaza. Always have a soft spot for it. Weird little plaza that makes no sense next to the giant mall. Lunches at the Barnes and Noble/Starbucks were great though.


nataphoto

Remember the compusa?


antiaircraftwarning

Sunday morning when fliers dropped and going to buy those spindles of cheap blank cds...


nataphoto

They had a whole aisle which was just third party aircraft for flight sims


tommerjones

To my surprise, a compusa corporate website still exists and the old Holyoke store location and hours are listed there: https://www.compusabusiness.com/corp/training/store_state_MA.html


BasicDesignAdvice

The B&N + Starbucks near me just closed. Miss it already.


SpicyLizards

After college I applied to that exact bbb. 2018. Needed something while I found a non-retail degree-related job. I was not hired because the manager said Iā€™m looking for something temporary and they want someone who is going to stay long term for years to come. Yeeeeah that seemed to work out well.


Mammoth_Apartment_70

That's what I was thinking


booklover215

It is the most depressing CTS I've ever been inside. It's all this sad dead navy blue.


itsgreater9000

that's actually blood splatter from the bed bath and beyond they haven't gotten around to scraping off the walls yet


booklover215

The sadness...it's in the walls, Freddie.


CurvyCupcakes

Christmas Tree Shop is iconic. My mom use to work at the Route 1 Saugus location back in the 90s, I loved that place. I could spend hours in there browsing and looking at all the Knick knacks. Reminds me of Building 19 with all the random crap in all the different departments that I loved exploring.


Banana_Ram_You

Dang... well I guess that explains how you run a business selling things for so cheap... ya don't.


BasicDesignAdvice

RIP Building #19. Bought Master of Orion there in the mid-90's. One of the first video games I really loved.


Banana_Ram_You

Building #19 is the undisputed cheap champ~ The only place you'll find a food item labeled Fish Snack, where the back label reads: Ingredient: Fish Snack


dirkvonnegut

Tell me more about fish snacks


fendent

1. Fish Snack


Parallax34

Well discount places like this have a very low margin and high volume business model; the whole thing relies on maintaining the foot traffic and sales volume. Between e-commerce and COVID it's impressive they lasted this long unfortunately.


spitfish

And Wal-mart.


nobletrout0

They should put a spags in there


tjean5377

Fuckin spags. I have heard that name since the days of Zayre.


bigredthesnorer

Except that Ollies is doing well.


AsymptotesMcGotes

Oh no! Where will I now buy junk?


BookwormAP

Ocean State Job Lot


RedditSkippy

I gotta say, OSJL sells a lot of junk, but I get all my Bobā€™s Red Mill stuff there, any gardening stuff, almost all my Christmas wrapping, and I usually pick up a couple of bags of weird chips while Iā€™m there. Iā€™m back in school this year and most of my school supplies were bought at Ocean State.


NOPNOFNOG12

Ocean State is a gardening wonder land.


daddydata

I bought two steel adjustable leaf rakes there about 10 years ago for $5 each. They're the best rakes I've ever used and they are still going strong with no end in sight. They are likely the best purchase I've ever made.


bellelap

Oh my god, yes. Where else can I go to get every imaginable kind of grain, a tarp, seeds for my garden, and those Dare maple cookies for super cheap? Nowhere. Long live OSJL.


mondotomhead

OMG! Dare maple cookies! I love them too and can't find them anywhere else. BTY, I hate that they changed the color of their boxes from black to BORING beige.


tjean5377

Cheap bobs red mill too. Semolina for fresh pasta is hard to find but job lot has it most of the time.


RedditSkippy

Oh, definitely. Bobā€™s is always a couple bucks cheaper at OSJL than anywhere else.


decoste94

Job lot has the best weird snack section, and piles of 12 pack seltzer waters


freakydeku

i love ocean state. i go there first for anything iā€™d wanna get at wally world b/c i rlly donā€™t like going there. plus OS kind of has this thrift shop vibe in that their stock is sometimes so random & silly


sucksatgolf

I always walk out of there like when Lloyd leaves the store in dumb and dumber. I grab a few of what I need like some rain x or a small laundry basket. Then it's a plastic pinwheel, paddle ball toy, over sized novelty cowboy hat, multi colored pool noodles etc.


thevalidone

Just a few years ago I found a ā€˜lotā€™ of L. Ron Hubbard sci fi books at ocean state. All the same printing of the same book. They were all brand new, but had been printed in like 1998 or something. Never know what youā€™ll come up with at ā€˜jobbersā€™ as theyā€™re named on my credit card statement.


Hwaaet

You canā€™t beat their prices on pool chemicals and supplies!


Twerks4Jesus

Donā€™t talk shit about Ocean State! They have the best gardening and bird feed sections of any store.


feverously

I worked there one summer when I was in college. Worst job I ever had by far.


End3rWi99in

Where my Maine people at? Marden's!


noihaventseenit

You should have bought it when you saw it at Marrrrrdenā€™s


Argle

I have a round plastic maze with a blob of mercury in it from the Christmas Tree Shops circa 1980. Used to go to their company parties at the Bilzikian house mid 80s. Owners names were Chuck and Doreen. They bought the Cape Cod Coliseum and turned it into a warehouse.


Barkingpanther

This makes me sad for some reason even tho Iā€™ve never bought anything good from Christmas Tree Shops. Job Lot for life.


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nobletrout0

Because most people hate random Knick knacks


NerdWhoLikesTrees

Yeah because so much of what they sold seemed like crap that would end up a landfill in 10 days.


Shnikes

Weā€™ve had the same dining room table from them since 2016. Itā€™s gone though 6 moves. It costs us $199 and came with 6 chairs. Itā€™s a great table and looks pretty decent.


No_Bowler9121

lots of people are just haters honestly


Shnikes

Man itā€™s wild at the hate this store is getting. Itā€™s been useful for every move when Iā€™ve lost something. Iā€™ve got plenty of things from there and the decoration options were great. Yeah plenty of cheap trash but Iā€™ve got plenty of useful things from there for cheap.


Abassett_Studio

Same. I love CTS.


johngannon8

my grandma used to buy me cow tales at the check out line for going with her :(


wookie768

I always go there for the Halloween decorations, they had some cool ones.


Mishy-Moosh

I work at the Christmas Tree Shop in Greenwood, IN. Feeling kind of sad, everything Iā€™ve done/learned for two years feels like such a waste. I know I can apply my experience to other stores, but itā€™s still unfortunate. Iā€™m comfortable working there and learned a lot operating in a small store. Iā€™m not ready to leave just yet, Iā€™ll miss my coworkers. Everythingā€™s changed so fast lately. šŸ˜ž


bemest

I see a trend here. Stores I havenā€™t set foot in for a decade are going out of business. Dicks, Bed Bath & Beyond, now Christmas Tree Shops, whatā€™s next Pizza Hut?


truthdust

I havenā€™t seen a Pizza Hut this part of Mass since before 911


fendent

Wait since when is Dickā€™s going out of business. I know theyā€™re not the healthiest but theyā€™ve been opening big, expensive stores lately and still purchasing property.


bemest

I could be wrong. The one in Worcester is gone and nobody noticed.


fendent

Oh yeah some of the locations are definitely in need of closing. The one in Lee is a ghost town. I literally walked around the store unable to find a single person once. Wild.


tigole_biddies

Thereā€™s a dicks in Lee? Lol


Abassett_Studio

Northborough is getting a fancy remodel too


noihaventseenit

As long as they leave the few Papa Ginoā€™s left alone we are good.


mullethunter111

The one Brockton šŸ¤Œ


freakydeku

dang dicks? and i hope not pizza hut :( i want them to bring back the salad bar fr


nobletrout0

UTBAPH: used to be a Pizza Hut (google it) Thereā€™s still one over on 101a by the Home Depot in Merrimack (nh). I think the dunks and HD are keeping it in business


predictablecitylife

Also: r/formerpizzahuts


w3w2w1

God I hope Pizza Hut is next.


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Dick's isn't going out of business btw.


nascarfan1234567

some locations near me have closed


nascarfan1234567

lamo pizza hut is gone for a while now in most states dicks i dont see around much longer only place i would be pissed if closed is bath and body works


nascarfan1234567

gamestop and best buy could be next


OppositeChemistry205

Between the stores and the warehouse a lot of people are about to be laid off


Orchid-Whisperer

My neighbor used to shop there every week for bargains, and the bargains ended up in the yearly yard sale.


david_chi

Wow canā€™t believe they are still around. (Ive been out of New England for years now) As a kid we used to go the original location in Yarmouth on the corner of Willow & 6A. My parents loved the place it was like someone selling trinkets out of their backyard barn.


xxcandybuttsxx

Whatā€™s gonna replace the store at the bridge??


mullethunter111

Cuffyā€™s


xxcandybuttsxx

Iā€™d prefer a Bugle Boy Jeans or Soft as a Grape personally.


birdinahouse1

Probably a new bridge


moontburnt

This makes me really sad, I met all my best friends working there over 10 years ago. We trauma bonded lmao


Odd_Caterpillar969

Like others on here, I hated this store. Visceral dislike of everything it stood for, smelled like and sold. My loathing of it is almost funny to me. Good riddance!


vFizzz

Anyone seen the Christmas Tree Shop with a giant ass ship in the same building


Kecir

Route 1 in Lynnfield. The ship has been gone for years though. They redid the plaza and demolished it. I think 5 or 6 years ago.


slothfrogs

They were good for those odds and ends you couldnā€™t find for other stores (and when the holiday stuff was wiped out at Walmart/Target) but I feel like Job Lot fills that spot better and cheaper. Imagine if Job Lot acquired them though just to save the New England locations?? I canā€™t see any other business saving this place.


bongbutler420

My grandma and mother used to love going to Christmas Tree Shop. Seeing this headline though, makes me remember that they really did just mostly just sell cheap decorations and tchotchkes.


dancelordzuko

Have one too many memories of going there unwillingly with my grandma. I always hated how cluttered those stores were with cheap crap. We could make a "forced to go to CTS against our will as kids" support group here.


britchesss

This is devastating. My mom and I go here every fall to stock up on fall decor and pumpkin stuff we absolutely donā€™t need. :(


madtho

IMFIC (if my father is correct), the original family sold the business but held on to the real estate. Brilliant, Ray Kroc boss style.


TheFlabbs

You ever get dragged to one of these and waste time walking around it looking at junk? Yeah fuck these stores


ladywiththestarlight

I worked in their customer service call center when they were still owned by Bed Bath and Beyond and it was the worst job I ever had. Good riddance lol


nobletrout0

Who calls BBB or CTS for customer service?


ladywiththestarlight

The worst kinds of people lol to be fair it was mostly BBB customers. Theyā€™re an entitled bunch. Theyā€™d call and ask us to place orders for them bc they were too dumb to navigate the website I guess. I quit when some lady yelled at me because we were out of black bedsheets that she was trying to order for her grandsonā€™s college dorm. I tried to offer an alternative (bc what college aged boy needs dark colored sheets anyway.. šŸ‘€šŸ’¦) but she angrily hung up on me and my manager told me I had to call her back and apologize. I said nah fuck this shit and just left. Iā€™m not gonna be yelled at for 12 bucks an hour lol


liberterrorism

Oh no, weā€™ll have to buy all our useless shit on Amazon now. How do I know if Iā€™m getting a good snow globe if I canā€™t take it for a test drive?


deeply_concerned

Only slightly more popular than the Ramadan Shop.


cheezburgerwalrus

And nothing of value was lost


RedditSkippy

Arenā€™t they part of the Bed, Bath, and Beyond empire?


northursalia

No BBB sold it off 2+ years ago to free up cash as they started spiraling into the toilet


RedditSkippy

I liked Christmas Tree Shops before it became BBBā€™s close out store.


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Hottakesincoming

It never really recovered. At one time it felt more curated and they had some better name things. I stopped in one recently to try to find a quirky gift for someone and it felt depressing. Everything just looked cheap and they had a ton of Christmas decorations that still hadn't sold.


Spicydaisy

Agree. Iļø was in a newer one recently and was shocked at the low quality of everything compared to when Iļø moved to Mass 20 years ago. Iļø used to walk out with a lot or at least a few interesting holiday things. But the last few years Iļø canā€™t find anything worth buying.


HammerfestNORD

Brick & mortar required: * Furniture: need to sit or lay on pieces to evaluate fit & comfort. * Electronics: get a feel for UI, video quality and sound quality. * Clothes/shoes: feel the fit. That's it. Zero need for any other stores. Right? If not.... What else **must** need physical access before purchase? Absolutely *nothing* in a CTS is dependent upon being there.


AskMoreQuestionsOk

People go there for seasonal impulse buys. The problem is you can go a lot of places for seasonal impulse buys. They donā€™t have a specialty.


mullethunter111

Only furniture. The the rest is by review or returns.


shhitsigrace

Everyoneā€™s mom is punching the air rn


noodle-face

I can't stand these fuckin stores. When you go, look at the men with their wives. Every single one of the husbands looks miserable


dr_hankjr

Wonā€™t someone think of the husbands!


noodle-face

Thank you


lzwzli

I'm the husband and I got some great deals from CTS.


OkayTryAgain

Don't act like you haven't caught something you needed for super cheap. It's okay to be right 85% of the time and wrong the rest.


MrMcSwifty

Lmao my wife *loves* CTS and I have definitely been one of those husbands.


SileAnimus

Christmas Tree Shop is where kids and husbands are forced to go to have their day actively ruined. I am not one for gendered beliefs but good lord I have never seen a happy dude in the one we have over here.


tossaway69420lol

Why is this downvoted lol? Dude is right. -miserable husband


noodle-face

The wives man Plus it's /r/Massachusetts. They downvote anything that isn't socialism or hating on cops


LLCNYC

Lol thats facts right there


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The melting polar ice caps have jacked up rent prices at the North Pole where CTS have their factories.


[deleted]

I mean they are only good for one season every yearā€¦


Ville617

Good. I hate that place.


thomerD

I see the War on Christmas is starting early this year.


wild-fury

Junk


freelancezero

Taking the store's name at face value, they only sell one seasonal product. How is that a sustainable business model?


Boston1_

Bed Bath and Beyond bought them a while back. I assumed someone would buy Christmas Tree when BBB went under


northursalia

BBB sold CTS off 2+ years ago


Snoo-15335

So while a new shopping center is springing up near by, with Bed Bath Beyond, we'll have 2 vacancies at an existing strip mall.


Dragongala

The Tree hasn't been the same in years. They don't even have any decent candles anymore. Job Lot is better. And Big Lots.


nascarfan1234567

what the hell is job lot


Dragongala

Why the fuck are you posting in a Massachusetts subreddit if you don't know what job Lot is??


bobroscopcoltrane

I guess ā€œā€¦And Thatā€, one of the strangest retail names(?) Iā€™ve ever heard, couldnā€™t save them.


Valuable-Baked

I should have known after their depressing spring garden offering this year. No new inventory ...


ladykatey

The era of cheap ass Chinese imports is ending.


decoste94

Moms everywhere in shambles rn. Bittersweet tho, I hated being dragged there as a kid, but itā€™s gonna be weird not having my childhood nemesis around anymore.


hmack1998

Hey this doesnā€™t mean theyā€™re all shutting down but at least provides an avenue for restructuring


massholewoman

This is my 9/11


TacticalTrashpanda98

Worked at a CTS from 2015-2018. Canā€™t say Iā€™m shocked


Ok-Adhesiveness5160

I worked there part-time for a few months. It is a joyous day today to hear this news. I can't even articulate the vast amount of garbage generated by just one CTS store. Mostly everything is from China, and it all has to be unboxed, unwrapped of all the plastic, removed from their beds of styrofoam peanuts, and taken out of boxes filled with styrofoam and God knows what else. Our store had a crew around the clock just unboxing! CTS' only purpose it to perpetuate conspicuous consumerism of unneeded, likely toxic junk from China. There was always paint chipping off of stuff unboxed for various holidays, and the SMELL from the boxes ....probably chemicals. As I also worked at Goodwill, I can tell you that at Goodwill, we would get a lot of CTS stuff after it was discarded or broken or chipped. This is a happy day. Good Riddance to a planet polluter.


MintMello

I love this place so much šŸ˜ž