Talk:Lechmere

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Very informative
This article is very informative and contains much information. 1779Days (talk) 06:50, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Fate of buildings
What happened to the company's real estate when it closed? -- Beland (talk) 19:42, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Price of pies
While personally I don't care about the price of the Table Talk pies on Washington's Birthday, the handling of that section is very sloppy, with a citation contradicting the assertion that the price was 10 cents. I couldn't find a definitive answer as to whether the price was 10, 22, or 88 cents, and I wasn't sure how to handle that kind of citation, so I left it as is. -- AlanUS (talk) 16:09, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Similar Companies from the 90's, plus some analysis?
I would like to link all of these similar companies, and their fates: Silo, Present Company, Montgomery Wards, Caldor. All of which were very successful at first, then, something happened (likely something in common to all, Walmart?, BJ's, Sam's Club, Internet? a bit of all?), then they all crumbled (mostly before the internet, around 94-98, to be fair). I was an employee in the 90's at Lechmere's, and I continually witnessed badly done sale advertisements, with no inventory planning at all, where we were forced to substitute a more costly unit to appease a customer who had his heart set on the sale item. Or, lose a sale to a 90s "showroomer" who came in and asked all the questions for an hour, then went next door to BJ's and lifted up the Packard Bell to his giant BJ's shopping cart, for $40.00 less. Back when computers cost 2300.00 on sale. Good times.

Oh, and of course the brilliant plan to save the company by selling $350.00 "Service Plan" (we clean out the deadly dust!) for 5 years, on a computer that would be worth almost nothing by 2 years, and would likely last 10 years anyway. I would like to "thank" the higher ups who came up with that "plan" (1, ?, 3, ... profit). They took their six figure salaries, while we had to face actual people with this brilliancy. NYC-ALB (talk) 02:13, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Coverage incomplete
The article currently contains just a few facts, but no personal touch, no consumer viewpoint.

When I lived in Framingham (the largest town in Massachusetts) in the 1980s, I loved Natick Mall. It was better for general shopping than Shoppers' World or Sherwood Plaza, and far better than the little unnamed Rt. 30 mall.

But nowhere on the Web (except for Wikipedia) do I see mention of (for me) the best store in Natick Mall, the enormous (for the time) Lechmere (pronounced LEECH-meer), perhaps the first "box store" around eastern Massachusetts.

Lechmere was, like Filene's, a department store, but it sold goods cheaper, at better quality, and lined up its electronics goods so you could easily compare different models, then reach below for the box you wanted. I bought an American-made Hoover vacuum cleaner there that is still working for me perfectly in 2016. I bought towels that I'm still using. Their products really lasted.

I've never had a better shopping experience before Lechmere or after Lechmere, and I was sorry to see them go out of business in Natick Mall toward the end of the 80s.

There is still a T Stop at Lechmere Square in East Cambridge, even though the company is gone.

The store Lechmere was named after Lechmere Square in Cambridge. That's where the T-stop got it's name. 151.203.70.159 (talk) 21:40, 4 July 2021 (UTC)