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  My local BBY is right across the hall from a Target.  I'm fairly certain I can find the exact same products in Target for 20-30% less than at BBY.
context: Bed, Bath and Beyond screwed up by filling their stores with lower quality stuff to keep the price down. I used to go to the store when I wanted a product that was not some shitty alibaba special off Amazon. I was willing to pay a little extra to have a few good options. Suddenly the store got filled up with the same cheap Chinese shit on Amazon but with higher prices. >
  
  They relied far too long on those 20% off coupons and also haven't updated their brand or stores since the mid-1990's. >
  
  Kohl's fell into the same death spiral. Worked there for many years in college, and one of my coworkers had been there for 20. Watched the coupons climb from 10%, to 15%, to 20% and now 40%. 
  It's a death spiral, because now people don't shop for anything less than a 30% off coupon. Kohl's has tried to fix this by exempting entire brands from percent off coupons, but this just pisses off customers, because they don't read the fine print. >
  
  I've gone back to Macy's because they learned their lesson
   Went to shit for half a decade but I've noticed a huge improvement after they stopped the crazy sales >
  
  Macy's completely blew their image though.  Nordstrom is the only place that gets that the whole store is supposed to be nice - ship the garbage off to Nordstrom Rack.  It's supposed to be fun to spend an extra nickel and buy a nice pair of shoes or coat once or twice a year at a fancy store, get treated nice by staff and not feel like you're animal at the zoo. >
  
  I never thought of Macy's as an ultra high end store. It's an everyman store that has some nice things to splurge on. Nordstrom goes the extra mile by turning it into an experience, complete with reasonably priced seam adjustments. My wife does my seam work now but Nordstrom was my go to if I wanted a fitted shirt for a long time. >
  
  Macy's used to be nicer.  They've always had a discount rack but it used to be more upscale.  They've filled in the gap left by Sears, which was more household items and cheaper clothes.  Macy's has a lot more chatchka crap than they used to have; unsold toys and kitchen items, junk. >
  
  Charging 28.97 dollars for a 3 dollar dish rack isn't a great business model. Shocking, but true. >
  
  That too. >
  
  A friend of mine had her wedding registry there. Somehow, BB&B decided not to ship any of the gifts and instead give her store credit to buy them herself. It was so stupid…so all of the gift givers basically gave BB&B an interest free loan while the bride assumed her gifts were being sent. >
  
  Yikes! What if they were out of stock on some things? Let me guess griftcards! >
  
  We actually shopped at Bed Bath & Beyond a few times for things like memory foam pillows and other thingd spent a few thousand over the years. The whole Bed and bath thing.
  We went back to it a few months ago and the section is replaced with shitty generic alibaba sourced pillows, generic sheets with their shitty low quality house brand.
  We litterally came in to purposely spend money and we walked away without spending anything. And worst part is their low quality crap is still nearly as expensive as their previous stuff.
  They made a meme of themselves. And they still give out those 20% coupons that cannot be used. >
  
  Now it’s 20% off all employees amirite >
  
  The store is overpriced with a bunch of junk >
  
  It’s junk in the most pure sense. 
  Even if everything in the store was 100% free, I’d leave most of the SKUs there. It’s all clutter and crappy shit nobody needs. 
  You can’t say the same thing for companies that are doing well. (I’d love a $5,000 gift card to Home Depot, Target, hell…even WalMart) >
  
  I got a better Gap comforter and sheets set from Walmart.com for $20 than I got from Bed Bath and Beyond for $150. BBY is shit.