/fa/ - Fashion

How are department stores like Bloomingdales and Nordstrom and Macy's still open? I live in a metropolitan area that's considered a cultural hub for the entire region and I've been in all three downtown flagship locations and they're just atrocious. There's absolutely no flow on the floors, just racks strewn about haphazardly with no though to visibility nor navigability. It looks like a Burlington Coat Factory in there. And the brands they stock are just awful and incredibly overpriced for the quality (or lack thereof). It was all Ralph Lauren and Hugo Boss and Levi's mainline. Like seriously, JC Penny tier garbage except it was all marked up to like 100% increase. I asked the associates if they carried Rick or Raf or Veilance or Acronym and I got dumbfounded blank stares. Nordstrom at least had common projects, so I figured I could ask their shoe staff where to find stuff, but when I asked if they knew where I could see raf x adidas he literally told me to try Champ's sports. Srs. The best brands I found in Bloomingdales menswear department were pleb-tier shit like Nudies. There was one little tiny rack of Y-3. The only raf they had was his collab with Fred Perry. Their entire floor was filled with cheaply made nobody brands with the same weak little poplin button-ups I would expect to find at h&m, except at twelve times the price. Who shops here? How do they stay open? Who drops thousands on trash like 7 for all mankind? Idgi. Pic unrelated.