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Fayette Shopping?I can’t really figure out why Fayette County has become the shopping mecca of the world. I guess other areas just don’t have the concentration of stores, but things have certainly changed out there in Fayetteland and it’s hard to tell what the attraction is. As “active seniors,” we often just go shopping for entertainment when there is nothing else to do. Until about a year ago, used to love schlepping through the various stores at the Pavilion and other shopping areas, but we do this less and less because it’s becoming more and more a bad experience and a waste of time. There was nothing on the calendar this past Friday night, so we headed to the Pavilion to see what we could see. Some of our former favorite haunts left a lot to be desired. Marshall’s and T.J. Maxx are now just a jumble of stuff thrown in piles around the store. Even if you can see and are interested in something, it’s hard to get to it. Clothes have digressed from being nicely styled name brand items to a conglomeration of crazy junk that seemingly nobody would wear. Target offers a better presentation, but everything seems to be overpriced. Kohl’s is okay, but doesn’t offer anything new anymore. Looks like the same items that were there a few months ago. Ross at the Pavilion is just another crazy mess. It was still early so we went to Ross in Peachtree City. Whew, another jumble of junk. The music playing at that Ross store was really annoying and hard to “shop to.” We left there disgusted as well. Tuesday Morning in Peachtree City also has stuff just thrown on the shelves and around the floor. The merchandising presentation just isn’t appealing anymore, and you don’t feel like you want to spend your money on things that obviously have no respected value. The clerks are sometimes friendly, but often have an attitude and are curt and uncaring. I used to find men’s clothes that I liked at Walmart in PTC. For the past six months, their selection of men’s clothes has been very sad. Like Kohl’s the merchandise isn’t turning over anymore, so it just sits there. The clientele in most of the stores seem to be oblivious women with 3 or 4 kids, who they allow to run around screaming while they pick through the aisles, or gaggles of two or three who scuff along, talking loudly to each other. Young men who are dressed like they just emulated the store racks (thrown haphazardly together) drift around here and there, but don’t even seem to be shopping. We spent the entire evening shopping, but bought nothing and ended up feeling like it was a waste of time. Now that we have all this retail, and have attracted all of these shoppers, shouldn’t these stores be doing something to keep the customer base? Or is it that the national chains rely on their names to attract business? Or is it the shuffling, scuffing, loud talking, hang-around types that they are trying to attract? As far as I’m concerned, we don’t need what doesn’t appeal to the community of this area. I’m supporting the Fayette shops less and less for a lot of the reasons above. We used to have to go out of this area to shop anyway, and never minded the journey, so things really haven’t changed much after all, I guess. We’ll just head to Newnan where it seems that shoppers are more welcome and attended to, even though the traffic is just as bad. Arf's blog | login to post comments
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