Godiva Chocolates to close all 128 North American stores due to coronavirus pandemic

[marmar]

NEW YORK (WABC) -- It's a bittersweet goodbye to one of North America's chocolatiers.

Godiva has announced that it plans to close all 128 stores.

They are yet another retailer that has fallen victim to the coronavirus pandemic.

However, chocolate lovers can still order Godiva products online. ..........(more)

https://abc7ny.com/godiva-chocolates-closing-stores/9941539/

[hlthe2b]

1. I wonder how few shopping centers/malls will survive (given malls were already on the demise)

or storefronts will be boarded across the country. Such a sad future in at least the next couple of years.
One can hope that a boom will occur sometime thereafter, but nothing will ever be the same.

[jimfields33]

3. Obviously the longer this goes, the more will close

I’m not a fan of that overpriced chocolate but I feel bad for the thousands plus workers who are now out of a job.

[NickB79]

8. I do miss walking the Mall of America, to be honest

Not so much to shop (the only store I like there anymore is Barnes and Noble), but my daughter is hitting the tween years and she's craving malls. Usually I managed to drag along another parent along with their kid so the girls could do their thing while we had adult conversation and coffee. When it's -20F outside, walking MOA is one of the only comfortable places to get a mile or two in for exercise outside a gym. That and I like remembering all the fun times we had there when she was little, building in Lego Land and riding rides at Nickelodeon Amusement Park.

[KatyaR]

2. I live 2 blocks from a major shopping mall.

The parking lot is full almost every day (and yes, I live in a city/state that has an alarming number of covid cases, but everything's open--thank you, GOP governor ). Just in the last week, 4 stores have been announced as closed or closing--Godiva would make 5. From what I've heard in this situation, the mall owners have raised the rent to the point that it's not feasible to continue. The shopping center next door has lost tenants as well for the same reason. But yet, we're scheduled to have a HUGE shopping/entertainment/resident center built across the street from the mall with shopping, restaurants, 400 apartments, and 2 parking garages.

[jimfields33]

4. Hopefully masked and keeping six feet away

Although I haven’t been to a mall in over a year, I’d think it be the easiest place to be safe. They are so huge that 12 feet apart I’d not hard.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Don't really care for Godiva, much prefer See's. Nt

[sanatanadharma]

6. When considering chocolate...

...one needs Euphoria.
I wonder how that company is doing without me (near nine years retired).
I know they left they left the mall.

[DeminPennswoods]

7. There are plenty of local small business chololatiers

around to patronize.

[Initech]

9. Ugh, this fucking virus has taken so much from us.

I just want it to stop!