{"id":783,"date":"2009-01-18T03:19:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T02:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2009-01-18T03:19:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T02:19:47","slug":"forever-21-invirgin-megastores-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Forever 21 In&#8230;Virgin Megastores Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-784\" title=\"virgin-megastore\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/virgin-megastore.jpg\" alt=\"virgin-megastore\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/virgin-megastore.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/virgin-megastore-560x382.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The age of super-sized record shops in Manhattan is fading out: The Virgin Megastore in Times Square is closing and will be replaced by a popular clothing chain.<\/p>\n<p>The massive store on Broadway near 46th Street is expected to close in April. The store&#8217;s 200 or so employees were told this week about its demise. That leaves only one other Virgin store on the island in Union Square.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Entertainment Group Chief Executive Simon Wright tells the New York Times in Thursday editions that the store remained &#8220;very, very profitable,&#8221; in spite of the growing popularity of downloaded music over the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>But the two companies that own the chain decided that they could make more money if they leased the space to clothing retailer Forever 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age of super-sized record shops in Manhattan is fading out: The Virgin Megastore in Times Square is closing and will be replaced by a popular clothing chain.<br \/>\nThe massive store on Broadway near 46th Street is expected to close in April. The store&#8217;s 200 or so employees were told this week about its demise. That [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}