Putting my phone right up against the glass gave a slightly better, but still not great, view into the old Babies R Us space. You can just about see the high-bay lights along the actionway, the high shelving on each side, and the checkout counter in the foreground -- strangely, despite this store closing when Toys R Us didn't seem to be completely dead yet, they seem to have left behind their register/computer setup here, which seems to be the one thing that almost every chain takes with them when they close a store. Also, were the fixture sales people really trying to sell the wall trim in the vestibule??
Does selling the wall trim count as selling everything to the walls, lol?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Spirit and old fixtures, here's something neat...at least I think so. The owners of the Champions Village Shopping Center here in Houston, which is the shopping center where my local Randall's is, has put in some 3D spin maps of some of their vacant spaces at the center. One is a former Stein Mart (HJ Wilson/Service Merchandise before that). With this spin map, one can basically walk throughout the entire empty store and see just about every inch of the place as if one was walking through the building including the back offices, restrooms, and even the storeroom...even the upper deck of the storeroom since the stairs are virtually walkable! This is pretty neat technology. It's like a video game, but with dead retail instead.
This space is currently a Spirit Halloween. Anyway, on the topic of fixtures, it's interesting how many old Stein Mart fixtures are left in the store, but since this was a Covid closure, perhaps they weren't able to have as successful of a liquidation as they were hoping for. Still, it's a bit surprising that everything was just left in the store. Here is the link to the 3D spin map: https://virtualtour.idplans.com/en/tour/7f141ykhc
Ha!
DeleteI love those Matterport tours! (Even if they make my somewhat-old computer work a bit harder than it really wants to.) They seem fairly common in real estate these days -- I first ran into them when I was shopping for my condo, and these days, I've been seeing them quite a bit in commercial stuff too. CVS seems to use them quite often -- I've seen them linked from quite a few of their remodel documents, and I have to wonder if they've scanned all of their stores.
Huh, that's actually the first time I've seen one of those 3D maps, but I have not looked at any CVS properties online. Maybe I should especially since some around here are going to be old Eckerd locations. I have not seen any houses like this either, but then again, I really have not been looking.
DeleteYeah, I probably shouldn't even try to load that 3D map on my Core2 Duo desktop, lol. It was a bit slow and it caused the CPU fan to spin up on my older Core i5 laptop yesterday. I don't know if the issue is so much with CPU power or with the lack of powerful enough 3D acceleration. Those 3D maps might be the closest thing my computers see to 'gaming' these days. It is neat technology though and I hope it's used more frequently.
It looks like that sticker was showing the price of the shopping carts instead, but I like the wall trim idea XD
ReplyDeleteI was thinking they were referring to the trim as shopping cart protection, but your idea makes more sense! 🙂
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