Talk:Mervyns

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Contents 1 Closing Stores 2 Improper bias in this article 3 Image requested 4 Locations 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Mervynslogo1990.jpg

[edit] Closing Stores

I am suggesting a separation of the store closing dates. The closing of the Florida stores is mentioned in the beginnings and the stores in Michigan and Oklahoma is mentioned down in the split from Target. There is the mentioning of other stores that are closing statewide. I think that this should be separated out into its own heading. Does anyone have any other ideas on this maybe to make it more organized? Babehs 13:03, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Improper bias in this article

It has come to my attention that several passages in this article relating to the retail company Mervyn's may be biased; following are several examples of this (I have typed the mojority of potentially biased material in italics):

"While Target Stores grew at a breakneck pace during the 1980s and 1990s, fueled largely by the no-nonsense Protestant work ethic in Minnesota, Mervyn's simply squandered their multiple opportunities for success by stagnating themselves and refusing to adapt. They were a major drag on the Target Corporation from the inception of their rocky relationship."

"Ultimately, Mervyn's discovered that meaningless gestures, like stripping and re-varnishing the employee break room cabinets once a year when they did not show so much as a fingerprint, was a waste of their rapidly depreciating political capital within the Target family."

"The lazy-Californian approach proved no match for the Minnesota juggernaut of productivity that has brought the likes of Target, BestBuy, and USBank."

"Many at Target Corporation let out a quiet little cheer when they witnessed the largest Target store in the United States, located in Roseville, Minnesota, being just completed in September 2005, while across the highway the palatial, and now defunct, Mervyn's California store suffered the blows of a wrecking ball. The justice could not have been more poetic: Mervyn's finally got the help it needed all along."

I am a former employee of Mervyn's myself, and it is obvious to me that the individual who wrote this article is probably a disgruntled former employee themselves. Rather than let the "Michael Moore" approach take its toll on uninformed readers, it is my request that this article be modified or rewritten from a more unbiased, economical and educational point of view.

• Visitor from the Cleanup page ... I've deleted the entire "Mervyns vs. Target" passage, which even after previous edits STILL comes off as original research/analysis by someone with a grudge against Mervyns (and sort of an apples-to-oranges comparison, to boot). If any of the claims (e.g. discrimination) could be verified and attributed, it might add something to the entry, but in this section's last incarnation, it doesn't. —Hedgey42 08:29, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

• Does someone keep coming in here to insert disinformation? I just removed some crap about healthcare to only 20 team members per store. False. I currently work at Mervyns; however, I have no citable sources for information regarding the company's growth in the recent year as I'm working off what I've discerned between conversations between myself and the Manager of the Anaheim Hills, CA store. Is this information still introducable?

• It seems that nearly all the biased content is added by the same author, User:24.118.179.181. Sorry to name by name, and I would like to invite you to prove me wrong, but util you do, I am considering you to be a vandal. Thomasdelbert 23:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Could someone please mention the Midwestern locations? I don't know how to add comments, so pardon me if I did this wrong.

[edit] Image requested

I've added the image request tag above after looking at the article. Someone using an anonymous IP address put placeholders for the old logos. They may not be the best placeholders, so I'll put comment tags around them for now. --Geopgeop 06:52, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I found 2 old Mervyns logos and uploaded them --Caldorwards4 19:01, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

The "original" Mervyn's logo is incorrect. The original logo had a more regular "Y".66.215.75.10 05:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Locations

Just about all the other department store pages on Wikipedia have a list. I think a list would be in order for Mervyn's, seeing as they've closed so many locations. However, I doubt I'll be able to track them all down without help. Anyone willing to help? TenPoundHammer 03:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Here's a list I made of all the former Mervyn's locations I know of. I'll work on current locations later; Mervyn's store locator is a pain in the @$$. TenPoundHammer 20:48, 1 March 2007 (UTC){{subst:image source|Image:1stMervynslogo.PNG)) Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 23:46, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Mervynslogo1990.jpg

Image:Mervynslogo1990.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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