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Post by BearClause on Jan 23, 2011 23:05:36 GMT -5
Noticed their logo placed in a prominent spot on the Star Advertiser website front page. I'd almost forgotten about them since CVS bought out Longs and rebranded all the stores to CVS except for the ones in Hawai'i. I took a look at a weekly ad, and it does seem to include a lot of the CVS house branded stuff.
I understand that Hawaiians take their brands seriously. I had a boss at a summer job from Honolulu. She talked about her mom visiting her in the Bay Area, where she insisted on going to the closest Longs Drugs every day as part of her routine. The way I understand it, CVS didn't want to risk alienating brand-loyal customers there.
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Post by bunnywailer on Jan 24, 2011 15:28:44 GMT -5
Heck, I still call Don Quixote "Holiday Mart".
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Post by ingoodstanding on Feb 2, 2011 20:15:11 GMT -5
This is a fun one, too:
As referenced, 2^^, there are those in Hawai'i who take their Longs...& "Make Longs a Part of Your Day"...VERY seriously. The slogan has been ingrained. If only for the pack of dry lemon peal (seed), Kauai/Maui cookies, or the infamous black rubbah slipahz!!!
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The coconut tree climbing 'native' may've called it "Holiday Mart," but I just refered to it simply as Daiei.
Kinda like referring to the Waikiki Fireman's House (& its adjacent cement vb/bb court facilities) as Paki Park. -It's cleary a part of the station -It's not really a park, moreover.
Anyways... :-)
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Post by BearClause on Feb 2, 2011 20:26:10 GMT -5
This is a fun one, too: As referenced, 2^^, there are those in Hawai'i who take their Longs...& "Make Longs a Part of Your Day"...VERY seriously. The slogan has been ingrained. If only for the pack of dry lemon peal (seed), Kauai/Maui cookies, or the infamous black rubbah slipahz!!! I'm pretty sure that my former manager's mom wasn't going to find any of those items at a Longs a few miles south of San Francisco. I guess she had to make do with whatever she could find. I grew up in El Cerrito, California. The city's main shopping center was built around a Longs Drugs store that was maybe one the first three built. I kind of miss it (although the store lives on as a CVS store), along with what the old shopping center was like. That place had all the (now departed) retail names from my youth, including Swensen's Ice Cream (now defunct in California except for the original San Francisco shop that was operated by the founder until his passing when the company took it over out of tradition), Woolworth's, Millers Outpost, and Capwells department store. At least some of the retail of my youth still remains, including the Safeway store with a sign that declares that they've been serving my hometown since 1929. Baskin Robbins is still in the same spot it was when I was a kid. At least some things stay the same.
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Post by ingoodstanding on Feb 2, 2011 22:59:34 GMT -5
Noticed their logo placed in a prominent spot on the Star Advertiser website front page. I'd almost forgotten about them since CVS bought out Longs and rebranded all the stores to CVS except for the ones in Hawai'i. I took a look at a weekly ad, and it does seem to include a lot of the CVS house branded stuff. I understand that Hawaiians take their brands seriously. Speaking of which... Hawai'i (for those old enough to remember) was home to, a couple of, the world famous Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours. & they've made a slight comeback as it were. One in Pearl Ridge, which is a reincarnation of the original one at the very site, and A second one in the Windward Mall...the original was located at Ala Moana (and not in Kaneohe). Wasn't Farrell's started in San Fran. anyway??? ...memories
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Post by BearClause on Feb 2, 2011 23:47:20 GMT -5
Noticed their logo placed in a prominent spot on the Star Advertiser website front page. I'd almost forgotten about them since CVS bought out Longs and rebranded all the stores to CVS except for the ones in Hawai'i. I took a look at a weekly ad, and it does seem to include a lot of the CVS house branded stuff. I understand that Hawaiians take their brands seriously. Speaking of which... Hawai'i (for those old enough to remember) was home to, a couple of, the world famous Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours. & they've made a slight comeback as it were. One in Pearl Ridge, which is a reincarnation of the original one at the very site, and A second one in the Windward Mall...the original was located at Ala Moana (and not in Kaneohe). Wasn't Farrell's started in San Fran. anyway??? ...memories Wikipedia is your friend (unless there's vandalism). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrell%27s_Ice_Cream_ParlourGoing WAY back into what might be shared memories, I remember the huge Liberty House department store built at San Francisco's Union Square. It closed in the 80s and was taken over as expansion space for the Macy's across the street. I understand the chain no longer exists.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2011 15:05:34 GMT -5
The way I understand it, CVS didn't want to risk alienating brand-loyal customers there. I work for Regis Corporation, and you might recognize that we own Regis Salons. However, what many people don't know is that we own many other brands as well, but we tend to keep the brand name of the salon we purchase, provided the salon is doing well in its business. (If we purchase a struggling salon, we're more likely to change the name of the salon to something we already own.) Of course, many of these salons have different names because they provide different services and have very different targets, but... for many of them, the name is what it is simply because when we purchased it, this is what it was called, and it was working - in order to not alienate its existing client base, the name did not change upon acquisition by Regis: Best Cuts BoRics BSO Beauty Supply Outlet Carlton Hair City Looks Cool Cuts 4 Kids Cost Cutters Famous Hair Fiesta Salons First Choice Great Expectations Hair 2000 Hair Club for Men Hair Club for Women Hair Excitement HairCrafters HairMasters Head Start Holiday Hair Jean Louis David Magicuts MasterCuts Mia & Maxx Mitchell's Outlooks For Hair Panapolous ProCuts Progressions Raze Regis Saturday's SmartStyle Style America Supercuts TGF Vidal Sassoon We Care Hair Zellers Salons
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Post by ingoodstanding on Feb 8, 2011 22:45:34 GMT -5
^^^ I think that a prescription's in order. How about a visit? ;-)
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Post by ingoodstanding on Feb 15, 2011 23:58:08 GMT -5
Speaking of which... Hawai'i (for those old enough to remember) was home to, a couple of, the world famous Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours. & they've made a slight comeback as it were. One in Pearl Ridge, which is a reincarnation of the original one at the very site, and A second one in the Windward Mall...the original was located at Ala Moana (and not in Kaneohe). Wasn't Farrell's started in San Fran. anyway??? ...memories Wikipedia is your friend (unless there's vandalism). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrell%27s_Ice_Cream_ParlourGoing WAY back into what might be shared memories, I remember the huge Liberty House department store built at San Francisco's Union Square. It closed in the 80s and was taken over as expansion space for the Macy's across the street. I understand the chain no longer exists. NEVER, EVER realized that there would've been a LH in San Fran. Thanks! Macy's, Nordstroms, Neiman's YES, but Liberty House...I'd never have known.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 16, 2011 0:52:46 GMT -5
Speaking of which... Hawai'i (for those old enough to remember) was home to, a couple of, the world famous Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours. & they've made a slight comeback as it were. One in Pearl Ridge, which is a reincarnation of the original one at the very site, and A second one in the Windward Mall...the original was located at Ala Moana (and not in Kaneohe). Wasn't Farrell's started in San Fran. anyway??? ...memories Wikipedia is your friend (unless there's vandalism). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrell%27s_Ice_Cream_ParlourGoing WAY back into what might be shared memories, I remember the huge Liberty House department store built at San Francisco's Union Square. It closed in the 80s and was taken over as expansion space for the Macy's across the street. I understand the chain no longer exists. A quote from the Wikipedia article about the Farrell's ownership: "Private by Parlour Enterprises in the U.S., by E Noa in Hawaii" I always suspected Hawaii was not really part of the US. If you read it on Wikipedia, it must be true!
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Post by BearClause on Feb 16, 2011 16:02:47 GMT -5
NEVER, EVER realized that there would've been a LH in San Fran. Thanks! Macy's, Nordstroms, Neiman's YES, but Liberty House...I'd never have known. I think it was the biggest store in the chain, as they hoped that it might be a way to establish a presence in the mainland. It's 7 stories and the building still stands today as the Macy's Men's Store. departmentstoremuseum.blogspot.com/2010/11/liberty-house-san-francisco-california.htmlThat whole area is filled with department stores. Neiman-Marcus is next door to that building. Across the street there's still the original Macy's building, and I. Magnin (a San Francisco based dept store chain) had its flagship store on the same block, although it's now been subdivided into several smaller stores. Saks is across Union Square. You have to go a couple of blocks to Market Street where Nordstoms now stands close to Bloomingdales (used to be the Emporium dept store).
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Post by ingoodstanding on Feb 17, 2011 12:04:49 GMT -5
WOW!!! Those people in SF must have some kind of money to spend (or something) ;-) ...the (empty) CA economy...real estate...shoe/trouser price$, 6 dept stores, Saks. Sheesh! I remember I. Magnin, also. The Beverly Center in LA carried one. *I'll stick with my Levis, thank you, fresh off of the 'assembly line' there in SF.
This may be hard to believe but Saks did offer a Norstrom Rack type of store at one time here in the PNW. It went out of business just as quickly as the SuperMall has not been as much of a draw as developers had invisioned. Barneys exists here, tho. Saks (I believe) may still be in downtown Portland.
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Post by BearClause on Feb 18, 2011 13:37:28 GMT -5
WOW!!! Those people in SF must have some kind of money to spend (or something) ;-) ...the (empty) CA economy...real estate...shoe/trouser price$, 6 dept stores, Saks. Sheesh! I remember I. Magnin, also. The Beverly Center in LA carried one. *I'll stick with my Levis, thank you, fresh off of the 'assembly line' there in SF. This may be hard to believe but Saks did offer a Norstrom Rack type of store at one time here in the PNW. It went out of business just as quickly as the SuperMall has not been as much of a draw as developers had invisioned. Barneys exists here, tho. Saks (I believe) may still be in downtown Portland. A Louis Vutton store took over much of what used to be the I Magnin store. The FAO Schwartz store in SF went away, but it's now a Barneys store. You mention Saks - yeah their closeout stores are called "Off 5th". There's actually one in San Francisco, as well as two in Santa Clara County, and one in Petaluma. www.saksincorporated.com/ourstores/off5th.aspAlso - Levi's no longer makes any jeans in the US. It used to be a source of pride that 100% of their jeans were American made. I remember when the would have tags that spelled out the factory - I remember a few in Texas. Their factory in San Francisco might have been the last one to go in 2003. I heard that for years (until it closed) they only produced for the more lucrative Japanese market. The product they sold there had the "000" factory code stamped on the rivet holding the front button closure.
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