A group of teen girls and their male getaway driver attempted to rip off a Pearland, Texas Zumiez store (even roughing up an employee) but they didn’t get far, according to a story on KTRK.com.
Police say it all started a few minutes earlier inside a Pearland Town Center shoe and clothing store when 18-year old Ashley Jackson, 17-year old Chrishonta Reshard and 19-year-old Angel Martin came in with plans to shoplift. . . “Chrishonta Reshard began selecting items just at random, just grabs T-shirts and starts stacking them in her arms,” Pearland Police Department Lt. Onesimo Lopez said. . . But police say a suspicious store employee jumped into action, blocking the door when she noticed two of the three girls trying to run out of the store with bags of clothes. . . “One girl charged at her like a linebacker, hits the clerk at the door — hits her hard enough to run into the door, push her out on the sidewalk and fall over a sign outside,” Lt. Lopez said.
Note to Zumiez: please make sure this employee gets to the 100k this year.
On Thursday, August 2, 2012, Vans and Captain Fin Co. are celebrating the launch of the new Tanner Gudauskas Rata Mid Surf Sider with a party at Thalia Surf Shop in Laguna Beach, California.
Tanner Gudauskas x Captain Fin Co. color way designed by Vans Surf team rider Tanner Gudauskas and Captain Fin founder Mitch Abshere. Captain Fin Co. fuses art, music and performance to create unique surfboard fins and is well-known for embracing and supporting the creativity of its riders, including our very own Tanner Gudauskas.
Natasha Noland, 25, the daughter of Santa Cruz, California’s Pacific Wave Surf Shop owners Todd and SueNoland died late Friday night, July 27, 2012, after falling out of a bus on her way back from a Brad Paisley concert, according to a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Noland reportedly got into a fight with another woman inside the bus when a door opened and both women fell from the moving bus onto the highway’s southbound lanes between Lark Avenue and Highway 9 in Los Gatos at 11:50 p.m., CHP officials said. . . Noland was run over and killed by the bus, CHP officials said. . . The other woman, a 20-year-old Felton resident, was taken to a nearby hospital with moderate injuries, CHP spokesman DJ Sarabia said.
Noland was the women’s buyer at Pacific Wave. Our thoughts are with Natasha’s friends and especially with her parents.
Agenda NYC officially opened their doors to buyers and the press at 9 AM yesterday morning (July 16, 2012). Located inside the hardwood-floored, loft-windowed 82 Mercer space, Agenda is in the heart of Soho and only a short walk away from Supreme, the Burton Store, Saturday’s NYC and the many style boutiques that have made the neighborhood famous.
We’re still trying to process it all, but for a quick look at the space, the show, and the people who are attending click here for a complete photo gallery.
After a full day of doing business at Agenda NYC, it seems that Monday night (July 16, 2012) is shaping up to be a big old briefcase full of party business. Follow the jump for all the party flyer details. You’ll see exactly what we mean. [click to continue…]
Hackers have allegedly posted close to 35,000 “unencrypted text passwords” from the Billabong.com store, according to a story in The Australian.
Online publication SC Magazine has reported that hacktivists released the credentials under #WikiBoatWednesday, an event popular in hacktivist Twitter circles. . . Billabong has told the magazine that its customer database did not contain financial data, only personal information, but is yet to confirm or deny whether its user information has been hacked.
Billabong said the following: “We view this attack as an extremely serious matter and have taken urgent action to contain the incident and prevent further attacks occurring.” That’s just one reason why you shouldn’t use your email password when you’re buying bikinis.
Take a peek at what we’re diving into starting Monday, July 16, 2012: Agenda NYC. If you want to drop buy and check it out, click here to register. There’s nothing like summer in the City.
Former Volcom Berkeley store manager Damian Kordick cut right to the bone when asked by the Daily Californian why the store on Telegraph Avenue was closing on Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
Store manager Damian Kordick said the store closed due to a lack of sales. . . “Rent for all the businesses on Telegraph is extremely high,” Kordick said. . . Not long ago, Kordick’s finance team decided it would be best not to resign the store’s lease, both for Volcom and for Berkeley customers.
He also pointed out that clothing stores were “kind of saturated in the Berkeley area, what with Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, different department stores in the city.” Well, at least Volcom still has Pac Sun, right?
Wow. Things just seem to be getting worse and worse from Pacific Sunwear. The action mall retailer reported a net loss of $106.4 million dollars in the year ended January 28, 2012, according to a story in the Orange County Business Journal.
Chief Executive Gary Schoenfeld told shareholders in the company’s 2011 annual report, released Wednesday [June 27, 2012], that improving “clarity with consumers about what PacSun stands for as a brand and why they should love to shop with us” is among its top priorities.
Yes, getting people into the stores to buy things would seem like a pretty good plan, especially as the ongoing “turn around” has only resulted in in increasing losses (Pac Sun lost only $96.6 million last year). Retail is hell.
Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) no longer has the capital to compete. The retailer will be gone by the end of 2013. In the company’s most recent 10-Q, it said one of its biggest risks was running low on capital and not meeting financial obligations. . . What will happen to the retailer? It could be bought by a larger company — its market cap is only $108 million — or it may go out of business with its inventory sold to other retailers.
24/7 Wall St. hasn’t had the best track record when it comes to divining the future, but it’s hard to disagree with much of what they have to say about PacSun.
