I totally agree on the medium sized bags. I want them. I loved old (vintage) Coach and Legacy line last year. I think they should concentrate on that.
Coach Is Closing 70 Full Price Stores
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At MOA I have walked by a handful of times in the last couple weeks and always empty as was the Ridgedale store when I walked by ealier this week but the Coach area in Macy's had people standing at the register waiting in line (so like 4 customers trying to check out).
I went to the Galleria today to order a purse I was interested in and while it wasn't crazy there were a few people in there when I got there and others who had come in so I would say in the 30 minutes or so I was there ordering it there were at least 8 customers, more like 20 if you counted people not groups.
I really questioned the one I ordered because there are so many of the same bag out there usually and I really didn't want to see or hear it get marked way down but I need one for a trip and no time to wait.
I do have to say that just from my personal opinion seeing what has been in stock since March and what I was able to see of fall today and have seen online I like the fall collections better. I haven't purchased a Coach handbag in 4+ years and was surprised when I went back to look at them needing a purse for an overseas trip how much the brand, stores, ect have changed since I was last in a store. The reason I stopped buying Coach was because everyone had one, the same ones, there wasn't anything special the factory here really flooded the market. Nothing like getting a bag and having someone you know get the same one a couple months later for a lot less... makes it feel like a waste of money and not special.
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unfortunately coach forgot one thing. Their homework! There's a danged good reason why my local fp store located close to the airport gets cleaned out whenever they have a shoe sale. Or extend the pce to customer that wanders in. Or gets cleaned out without them having to have a pce sale. Any coach store that opens in china, mainland chinese will not buy because they fear it's not authentic coach. They think it's fake, even if it's authentic. I think it has to do with so much counterfeit goods being sold in china. Instead they'll pay for a plane ticket to north america, and buy from coach fp stores in north america because they trust the fp stores in north america to sell authentic coach.
Coach is being stupid. if they really want to rake in the moolah from them, they ought to open up fp stores and outlets in port cities. Research the places mainland chinese like to travel to in north america and open fp stores there. Has coach even been keeping up with the news at all? lol
closing fp stores in north america isn't their brightest idea xD. They better not close my local fp store. That would be stupid xD. Planeloads of tourists cleaning them out. If anything they should turn that store into a flagship store.
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Exactly. We always had a lot of Asian buyers in our store, and they told us what the prices were back home. Coach was up there in status with Louis Vuitton.
You are right, mostly because Coach is cheaper here in the US than in Asia, but her point is also valid. I know for sure many Asians, esp. Chinese, Vietnamese dont trust their boutiques. Recently a gucci store in Vietnam was accused of importing high grade fakes from Hongkong and selling them in their stores. So many times they buy a lot overseas even when the prices are not lower.
once it crosses the border it automatically is assumed to be non authentic. Look they even somehow managed to copycat an entire apple store in china and even fooled the staff they hired into believing it's the real thing. What's to say that someone may copycat a coach boutique and pretend it's the real thing? A fake coach boutique, I wouldn't put it past some people there lol, It's why most asians rather buy a plane ticket and buy from a coach store over here in north america or even aussieland where it's more expensive than here. It's the comfort of knowing they're being sold the real thing.
Here's another article on Coach:
Can this British designer save Coach?
http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/19/investing/coach-stuart-vevers/index.html?iid=HP_LN
Can this British designer save Coach?
http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/19/investing/coach-stuart-vevers/index.html?iid=HP_LN
Does anybody know the reason why the "invite" option for the online coach factory sale is gone? I have a couple of friends who wanted to get an invite and it's gone from my account.
I have signed up several times and never been included. There is no rhyme or reason to Coach's method.
Yeah, which is very odd in my opinion. Some people were going to see if they could call the closest outlet to ask if they would sign them up over the phone.....I didn't see how that turned out.......then someone volunteered to take info to their outlet to sign someone up.
It was mentioned that this is Coach's attempt to prevent people from signing up for multiple accounts. That's pretty much all I've heard.
Yes, you would think that a company losing sales $$$ would make it EASIER for people who want their products to purchase them...........
Yes, you would think that a company losing sales $$$ would make it EASIER for people who want their products to purchase them...........
Don't think too hard!!! Pretty sure we can just jump to the conclusion that Coach is a hot mess in terms of their policies and customer info. As someone with a background in marketing, it still surprised me that they would not pull together some TPF members for a focus group. All this free feedback from passionate Coach fans, and none of this feedback is ever leveraged. Mind-boggling really!