Apparently The Gap Doesn't Have Any Spare Servers For Testing
from the shut-down? dept
Nearly five years ago, when Walmart.com completely took their site offline for a while to "remodel" their e-commerce efforts, it was a bit surprising. You would think they could leave up the existing site while getting the new one ready. Five years have passed, and apparently retailers still haven't figured this out. The latest is that The Gap felt the need to completely pull many of their online stores offline for days in order to get ready a new site. Do they not have servers they can test these things on internally while the live production site keeps taking orders?
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They just don't get it teenage girls
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Old Navy is Closed As Well
http://www.oldnavy.com/store-closed/OldNavy/storeClosed/en/index.html
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I guess they are all on the same bank of servers.
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The Wal-Mart One...
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Doesn't surprise me
Politics over substance (or in Shrubby's case, american lives).
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I doubt this was intentional
1) Suppose they are transferring the "Internet stores" from one supplier to another, at a different datacentre etc.
2) They allow (say) one month overlap, with both suppliers online, after which the contract with the original supplier terminates.
3) There are delays with the new supplier, time passes, the new version of the stores still isn't working and...
4) The month runs out, the original contract ends, and they're off-the-Web.
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never is a complete outage neccessary
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No Subject Given
Maybe they can straighten out their incompetence.
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Old navy closing store eure
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Closing Eureka N. California dec 22, 06
Stores we got at bayshore mall
Pier 1 Imports.
Petco.
Boarders books together Seattles best coffee
Bed bath & beyond.
Ross.
mervyns.
rits camera.
Sears.
Victoria secrets
Gap.
zumiez.
Pacific sunwear,,,,,,,,,,, Its not really good yet because we dont have all the better stores.
A list of store we need,( dont have)...........
Abercrombie & fitch.
Banna republic.
eddie bouer.
arostale.
american eagle out fitters.
bayshore mall need reovation Bad, sears Entrance has Cracks in the door way, the mall is very ungly. There raising all the renting rates, and the mall is a rats nest. The company who owns the mall should be ashamed. because Old navy is leaving.
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a_fitch75@hotmail.com Abercrombie & fitch Scam
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a_fitch75@hotmail.com Abercrombie & fitch Scam..
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abercrombie & Fitch VS GAP 2007
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Eureka Northern California. Bayshore mall,
List of store closures
Arbys
sweet river Grill.
Campost casual
Old navy.
JCpenny outlet.
site for sore eyes.
baba sheepskins.
Vitamin world.
Suncoast movies.
Rocxco furnature.
Bayshore mall Rasied the rent Very High & all they want to do is leave the, the econmy is good, but Bayshore mall redid store contracts and raised the rent very high causing the store to want to leave, Humboldt county has a lot of people but. its not santa rosa.. Eureka City council would like to have corporation leave Eureka, because Balloon Track project is taking for ever its going on to 2 years still there not making there mind up. Fortuna is having the same problems,4 years & there still fight. but if this is the way the people want it well its fine. but when they dont have it will be gone. poverty rate soring high. Eureka will loose there sale tax. but its fine because thell cry to the state for the money when they dont have it, but I hope they learn there lesson ,programs will be cutt. but there is Property tax they could get. Eureka population 28,808.
Balloon track project still going on to 2 years now fighting about Home dep. & best buy the city voted yes they want it because Home dep will buy Lumber from small bussiness thats why every one likes its,Gas 2.70 Gal. turist rate droped very low.
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Re: raised rents
if u dont spend your dollars here, (shopping in redding, ukiah, santa rosa, medford) then stores close. rents are negotiated in leases, and i have heard that there are increases. but the mall can't just go in and say "we are raising your rent" These corporations have goals set for these stores to make, and again, if you dont shop, they wont stay. old navy closed all OUTLET stores, is was not anything bayshore mall did.
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Hi Fortuna Walmart & target info
Fortuna Northern California Humboldt county(Walmart box store) Fortuna city councill members are repulicans & only care about local bussines.Wheres Fortuna Walmart they where promissed, Fortuna Polotians got re elected again. Fortuna is going down, Fortuna raised there water rates 90% & walgreens never opened yet. Fortuna, Rio dell, charlota ,brigeville will have to drive all the way to Eureka to go shopping, WHY ? drive to Eureka 25 miles, $2.75 gas cost. What ever happen to the study they said they did. this study vanished from the publics Eyes. Fortuna is Iccy yuk. Taco bell closed. after that. Taco place that went into old taco bell Closed, Bring more people to fortuna, Im waiting ,Ill keep reading the Times-standard news paper ever day hoping Fortuna will get a big box store, to u people Im not leaving humboldt, Im staying here. The news last week they said there taring down the mill, & Target & Walmart want to come in. They said the city did a study & found out that people go to Ukaih Crescent city, so the city looses sales tax. I got card in the mail today. Fortuna poverty levals dropping at all time hight, Balloon tracks in eureka taking 30 years. Ok im ganna be a Old man by the time they built the new shopping center. probly be 30years old. Insult me & my age. u will too people. People Fortuna council meating asked opinions of the people what , they all wrote ( more nite life & more shopping & restraunts. ) the city people dont care about u, they dident listen to nothing u said, Did u relect the Mayor & polotician again. Say bye bye to the mall, Bye bye Bayshore mall Eureka . Kiss before u leave. Good luck people. hope u like 2.75 for gas. travel far to shop, I suport walmart. later start with walgreans for now.
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Fortuna Northern California
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some 21 century activitys is fun. I love to go look around at the mall for fun. go to the movies & have fun. I wish we had a Best buy, we dont have that yet ,they closed Old Navy store in
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Fortuna is getting whole new shopping center
Walgreens
Starbucks
Redwood Capital Bank
Samaurai Sams Teriyaki Grill
Blockbuster
Dominoes
Elkie's Total Image
Quiznos
Briton Mortgage (I think)
CO-OP IN THE WORKS!
Plus I think a couple others
It isnt significant stores (pls come hollister) but its a step. Fortuna is growing and doing quite well this is very much needed. cant wait for Home Depot. but no wal mart please.
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Old navy store is gone, it still stays empty. Dumb mall, Kathy works in the costomer service & I ask her why is the whole south end of the mall going out of bussiness, SAD , Poor management. Sears has entrance looks bad all torn & cracked.
General Growth Properties GGP owns the mall, they own
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Eureka California Balloon Track newest news 3/26/
Balloon Track activity stops
by Wendy Butler, 3/26/2007
A Balloon Track maintenance project that Citizens For Real Economic Growth’s spokesman Larry Evans referred to as “poorly considered and poorly documented” was stopped a day after it was begun.
Security National CUE VI started the project on Thursday, with plans to apply clean and crushed aggregate rock to its vacant Eureka parcel’s existing roadways, which, SN said, have not been maintained for close to 10 years.
“Concerned citizens and local community environmental and good government groups first became alarmed by the description of ground-disturbing work that could encroach on protected wetlands, as well as risking potentially dangerous releases of toxic wastes contaminating the site,” Evans stated in a news release.
One of the phone calls CREG and others made was to Eureka Community Development Department Director Kevin Hamblin.
Hamblin told The Eureka Reporter that when SN first approached the city in October 2006 with repair and maintenance questions and asked if a coastal-development permit was required, SN was told that per the state Coastal Act “road maintenance including road grading of potholes and things like that” was exempt.
But the exception is that “you can’t have mechanized equipment within 50 feet of the edge of an environmentally sensitive habitat area,” Hamblin said.
“They were just asking what was exempt and we told them,” he said. “They were getting ready to do (the) work (and) we started to receive a lot of complaints and concerns on Thursday.”
The city went to inspect, but it didn’t seem that SN was “going anywhere but on their roads,” Hamblin said.
“We were following the rules for the abatement of a nuisance, to allow needed emergency access for fire equipment, medical services and police,” SN Senior Vice President Brian Morrissey said in an e-mail response to The Eureka Reporter’s inquiry about the maintenance activities. “We invited Coastal Commission and city staff to observe our work to further ensure that no ESHAs were harmed.”
CREG said heavy equipment and “industrial-scale bilge pumps sprayed potentially contaminated water out of potholes.” Morrissey contends none of the work traversed into a wetland area.
“All of the work done was on the existing emergency access roads on the Balloon Track,” he said.
Morrissey said the city was supplied with “various maps of the roadways and the work to be done.”
CREG contends safety plans for hazardous waste discharge control were missing from the documents supplied to the city.
“We had permits, but no hazardous materials were discharged,” Morrissey said.
SN temporarily stopped the operation on Friday after an inspection visit from the Coastal Commission. CREG contends SN was told to “shut down or be cited.”
“We invited them to visit the site,” Morrissey said. “They did not order us to stop work; however, we did voluntarily stop when there appeared to be some confusion about the work in progress.”
When reached Monday by phone, Evans said the “concerned citizens and local community environmental groups and good government groups” include Eureka Civic Association, but not Californians For Alternatives To Toxics, at least not yet.
He said he isn’t sure how many people phoned the Coastal Commission.
He said one of his main concerns is SN has said it was fulfilling a request by the Eureka Fire and Police departments for cleaner access roads, but that request wasn’t produced in written form until more than a month after SN initially approached Community Development about permits.
“We’re not saying some of this work should not have been done,” Evans said. “We really don’t know what the toxic situation is out there.”
He added, “(It) may be an honest misunderstanding, but (it) may be an attempt to flout the law.”
Evans said CREG wants “absolutely transparent” and “open” reporting on activities out on the Balloon Track.
“CUE VI is committed to an open and transparent interaction with the community,” Morrissey said. “That is why this road safety work and previous safety and cleanup endeavors, including the removal of railcars and construction of perimeter fencing, have been publicly announced in advance.”
(Security National owns The Eureka Reporter.)
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When is Walmart Comming to Fortuna California humboldt county? when is project ganna begin ? eny body know ??????????????????????????????????Was it approved Yes or no ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????? Eureka is FAr to shop. 30 miles roundtrip . GAS 3.60 regular
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could use Eddie bauer outlet at the Bayshore mall. it gose well with the out ,libral college town
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Trader Joes market
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(Eureka Nortern California ) Bayshore mall
My request to the world (Lots emty store ) @ Bayshore mall
Bayshore Mall ( GGP )
3300 Broadway St
Eureka, CA 95501
(707) 444-3855
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Bayshore mall is in the talks with
Bayshore mall hasent released this information but. Info is not for certain.lets hope the release some info soon because it needs it. any body want to Answer known news they they know. if u any body else out there knows any new news freel free to join this conversation ?
Hollister
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Eureka Gap closing Eureka California July 2008
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Bayshore mall Eureka Ca Gap is closing july 30 2008
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07/22/2008
Inside the Bayshore Mall, Gap Kids sits empty save for some barren tables stacked against one wall. Next door, a few customers pick over the scant remaining merchandise in The Gap. A sign at the entrance reads, “This Gap location will be closing. We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers.”
Come Sunday, it will be gone, the latest departure from the mall in recent years. Whether it's due to corporate troubles or the slowing of the national economy, no fewer than 17 of the mall's 101 storefronts are currently unoccupied.
Old Navy outlet, Wilson's Leather and KB Toys have all vanished in recent months, and weekend news reports suggest Mervyn's could be next.
The department chain may be forced to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy and close 177 stores in seven states, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Mervyn's and J.C. Penney were considered “anchor stores” when the mall opened in 1987. J.C. Penney closed in 2000.
A spokesman for Mervyn's declined to comment on the news reports, nor would he speak to the future of the Bayshore Mall location.
Bayshore Mall Manager Sue Swanson said the departures of J.C. Penney, Wilson's, KB Toys and The Gap can be attributed to difficulties on the corporate level, adding that the economy has slowed nationwide.
”It's not Eureka; it's not Humboldt County,” she said. “It's the entire country.”
She pointed to Borders, Bed, Bath and Beyond and
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Sears as examples of mall success stories.
”We've got a lot of bright points,” Swanson said.
Rumors have been circulating that The Movies, the mall movie theaters owned by Oregon-based Coming Attractions Theatres, may also be considering a departure. Ticket prices have been cut to $5 for evening shows and $3 for matinees.
”We're talking to the landlord right now,” said Coming Attractions President Daryn McLennan. He said The Movies has not been as busy as it was before the Broadway Theatre expanded from eight to 12 screens. But, he said, “We're going to continue to operate it for the foreseeable future.”
Allen Lesser started his personalizing business, U Name It, as a kiosk in the Bayshore Mall 17 years ago.
”It was great,” he said. “Sales were great for three or four years. Then it started declining.”
Foot traffic at the mall has risen and fallen over the years, he said, but recently it has been falling. Lesser is now in the process of moving his store from the mall to a new location in Henderson Center.
”My rent will be cheaper, and I won't have to do the hours,” he said. Stores in the mall are required to stay open during all regular mall hours, which total 73 per week. “For me, that's wasting money and employee hours,” Lesser said.
He stressed that he has great respect for the mall's office staff, and considered his own rent fair. But he said the mall's parent company, Chicago-based General Growth Properties, charges more rent for stores considered permanent.
”It's really high,” Lesser said. “That's why (stores) need to bail. The corporate stores are just folding.”
Swanson disagreed, saying other stores left mainly due to corporate level issues. She said the mall is “talking very aggressively” with an undisclosed company in southern California interested in the Gap location.
Other local shop owners see things brightening up at the mall.
”We're happy here,” said Baa Baa Sheepskins co-owner Angela Lyons. “We're disappointed that (the mall) is not as vibrant as in the past, but (management) is working pretty hard to get companies to come in.”
Lyons said she hopes that the pendulum will swing back soon.
”I think the mall is in transition now,” she said. “I'm trying to stay positive and hope customers come back -- at least by Christmas.”
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Fortuna complaints Sport & Cycle
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Meritline is a bad place to Buy DVDs from
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Balloon Tracks Eureka California 9/07/08
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