As if I’m not nitpicky enough in the description… you’re also missing an “E” already. On your second day of business. Come on, man.
Elsewhere in Southaven, I have some South Lake Centre updates for y’all! You’ll recall that, for most of this year, the power center has had two vacancies: the former Gap FactoryStore, and the former Family Christian Store. Last month, I found out there are new tenants finally lined up to fill both spaces; I’ll begin with the latter. Here we’ve got a fun game at hand: let’s play “Guess what local vacancy Hometown Furniture will play leap-frog with next!”
…I hope you could sense my sarcasm. Yes, to my dismay, this space is now home to Hometown Furniture. I’m not against the store – don’t take that the wrong way. But it does bug me to see that they’ve moved again already. In case you forgot, Hometown Furniture took over the former Tuesday Morning space approximately across the street from here back in late August 2017. They barely lasted one year in that space, announcing in late September of this year that they would be moving yet again, this time to the former Family Christian space pictured above. They celebrated their third grand opening (note that the Tuesday Morning grand opening in 2017 was their second grand opening – they relocated there from an original spot in Horn Lake!) just one day before my pic here was taken, on October 18th, 2018.
So, as I said, this move bugs me, for a number of reasons. One: you just moved last year. Why do you need to move again so soon?! Makes me worry for your customer base. I assume that furniture isn’t an item that’s bought very often, so I imagine there isn’t much in the way of clientele that will carry over. Two: I was happy to see the old TM building retenanted. It looked like Hometown actually put a lot of money into that building, which was nice to see because that building is super cool inside. (See for yourself!) Now not only did they seemingly waste that money, they’re opening the space up again for someone else to lease it and wipe away the cool traits, as well as leaving that entire shopping center without an anchor once more. Three: selfishly, I was hoping to see a new-to-the-area tenant in this space. It’s no secret that I really like South Lake Centre. It has the capability to draw great new retailers. I will concede that that linked photo discusses relocations specifically, but even those are all of national chains. Honestly, I’m now just getting the feeling that Hometown will continue deliberately plugging up all the local retail openings just to annoy me. (Spoiler alert: their strategy is working!)
In seriousness, I do think this location will be higher profile for them, and wish them well. But still… my first two points are legitimate concerns. I dislike that they left the TM building so soon, and wonder about their future if they continue this strategy of relocating without first establishing a long-term home and clientele.
Hometown Furniture // 125 Goodman Road W, Suite D, Southaven, MS 38671
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
As if I’m not nitpicky enough in the description… you’re also missing an “E” already. On your second day of business. Come on, man.
Elsewhere in Southaven, I have some South Lake Centre updates for y’all! You’ll recall that, for most of this year, the power center has had two vacancies: the former Gap FactoryStore, and the former Family Christian Store. Last month, I found out there are new tenants finally lined up to fill both spaces; I’ll begin with the latter. Here we’ve got a fun game at hand: let’s play “Guess what local vacancy Hometown Furniture will play leap-frog with next!”
…I hope you could sense my sarcasm. Yes, to my dismay, this space is now home to Hometown Furniture. I’m not against the store – don’t take that the wrong way. But it does bug me to see that they’ve moved again already. In case you forgot, Hometown Furniture took over the former Tuesday Morning space approximately across the street from here back in late August 2017. They barely lasted one year in that space, announcing in late September of this year that they would be moving yet again, this time to the former Family Christian space pictured above. They celebrated their third grand opening (note that the Tuesday Morning grand opening in 2017 was their second grand opening – they relocated there from an original spot in Horn Lake!) just one day before my pic here was taken, on October 18th, 2018.
So, as I said, this move bugs me, for a number of reasons. One: you just moved last year. Why do you need to move again so soon?! Makes me worry for your customer base. I assume that furniture isn’t an item that’s bought very often, so I imagine there isn’t much in the way of clientele that will carry over. Two: I was happy to see the old TM building retenanted. It looked like Hometown actually put a lot of money into that building, which was nice to see because that building is super cool inside. (See for yourself!) Now not only did they seemingly waste that money, they’re opening the space up again for someone else to lease it and wipe away the cool traits, as well as leaving that entire shopping center without an anchor once more. Three: selfishly, I was hoping to see a new-to-the-area tenant in this space. It’s no secret that I really like South Lake Centre. It has the capability to draw great new retailers. I will concede that that linked photo discusses relocations specifically, but even those are all of national chains. Honestly, I’m now just getting the feeling that Hometown will continue deliberately plugging up all the local retail openings just to annoy me. (Spoiler alert: their strategy is working!)
In seriousness, I do think this location will be higher profile for them, and wish them well. But still… my first two points are legitimate concerns. I dislike that they left the TM building so soon, and wonder about their future if they continue this strategy of relocating without first establishing a long-term home and clientele.
Hometown Furniture // 125 Goodman Road W, Suite D, Southaven, MS 38671
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)