Thread regarding Belk layoffs

More of the same shenanigans from Sycko

After absconding with $$ billions, many billions, from Staples and Belk, doing some similar financial hocus pocus with Nine West, we already see, in just a few weeks time, Sycko backing out of stated agreements to courrs and once again up to no good with their recent purchase of Ascena.

And some of you still want to believe something/anything about the upcoming Belk bankruptcy, most notablely "no store closures, business as usual." Look no further, Sycko has just disregarded (they lied?) agreements in Federal Banruptcy Court.

"Fearing store closures, mall landlords raise alarm about Sycamore's new version of Ascena"

"Major mall operator Simon Property Group, along with Taubman Landlords, have filed objections against Ascena Retail Group's Chapter 11 plan of reorganization."
The sticking point for Simon is what the company said was, under the original purchase agreement, a plan to keep at least 900 stores operating under the Sycamore entity and a master lease Simon entered with Ascena amid those negotiations. "The Purchaser's about face from the Master Agreement in favor of a far different, and worse, store lease portfolio, places the business at far greater risk than anyone contemplated at the time of the sale," Simon said. "

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So someone replies we should just ignore Sycamore's financial misdeeds, possibly bordering on irregularity or worse.

The economy s—s ergo Belk must go under. Got it. Don't believe it, but got it.

The three constants in ALLof the business articles on Belk , for years now, are the failure of their on-line business in spite of over a decade of effort and hundreds and hundreds of millions in expense; really poor merchandising and lack of identity as a retail store; lack of scale to compete nationally. A fourth might be added, the ill-advised, stars in their eyes, embrace of new flagship stores and the over-expenditures at existing flagships at the expense of the total company.

But go ahead, believe the person discussing the economy. Absolutely that has hurt. Yet Belk has been in trouble for quite some time. A long time.

But just as Covid takes down those sick and old, so too has it revealed those retailers too weak, too old, sick and tired, that could not or would not innovate, change with the times, and are now in fact digging their own graves.

It might take just months, like Stein Mart, or several years like JCP, but the writing is on the wall.

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The company is doomed whether he takes the money or it's given to creditors. This is an entertaining narrative, I'm sure it will distract employees quite effectively, giving them a scapegoat to blame when in reality, the company is going under for much more mundane reasons.

The economy is in the tank and revenues are way down.

All else is theater, a distraction.

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