{"id":16656,"date":"2020-01-21T23:41:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16656"},"modified":"2020-10-14T19:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T23:57:48","slug":"cost-plus-world-market-210-forum-drive-late-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16656","title":{"rendered":"Cost Plus World Market, 210 Forum Drive: Late January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1590992.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1590992_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1590992_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1590992_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1590991.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1590991_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1590991_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1590991_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610810.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610810_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610810_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610810_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610807.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610807_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610807_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610807_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610808.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610808_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610808_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610808_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610809.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610809_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610809_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610809_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google calls <i>Cost Plus World Market<\/i> a \"furniture store\".  I had never thought of it that way.  The only time I went inside this (or any <i>World Market<\/i>), I was attracted by the food aisles, and didn't really notice any furnishing.  Indeed, I think the only thing I've ever had from the chain was a gift of some exotic chocolate bars one birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Commenter Rashaad Egister pre-called this closing <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=15264#comment-3031492\">back in September of 2019<\/a>.  Apparently <i>World Market<\/i> was bought by <i>Bed, Bath & Beyond<\/i> back in 2012, and is caught up in a round of closings for that chain.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Rashaad Egister)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 29 January 2020<\/b>: Added the first two daytime pictures from 6 October 2019 at top.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 14 October 2020<\/b> -- This space is not setting up to be an <i>American Eagle<\/i>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670168.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670168_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670168_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670168_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670169.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670169_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670169_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670169_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670170.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670170_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670170_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670170_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670171.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670171_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670171_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670171_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670172.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/10\/p1670172_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670172_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670172_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/210+Forum+Dr,+Columbia,+SC+29229\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google calls Cost Plus World Market a \"furniture store\". I had never thought of it that way. The only time I went inside this (or any World Market), I was attracted by the food aisles, and didn't really notice any furnishing. Indeed, I think the only thing I've ever had from the chain was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2931,1589,168,37,2866,4,36],"class_list":["post-16656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-210-forum-drive","tag-food","tag-forum-drive","tag-furniture","tag-imports","tag-stores","tag-village-at-sandhill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}