{"id":21010,"date":"2022-10-03T23:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T03:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21010"},"modified":"2022-10-03T23:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T03:23:17","slug":"simply-mac-4840-forest-drive-suite-6b-9-june-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21010","title":{"rendered":"Simply Mac, 4840 Forest Drive Suite 6B: 9 June 2022 (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830405.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830405_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830405_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830405_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830406.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830406_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830406_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830406_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830407.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830407_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830407_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830407_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830408.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830408_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830408_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830408_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830409.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830409_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830409_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830409_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830410.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830410_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830410_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830410_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Simply Mac<\/i> was an Apple reseller whose strategy was to locate in smaller areas not having an official <i>Apple<\/i> store.  Once part of the <i>Gamestop<\/i> chain, the brand was spun off in 2019, just in time to run up against the pandemic.  Although the stores did re-open later, the damage had been done and a messy Chapter 7 bankruptcy followed.  Or at least that is one story.  Other stories have other issues compounding, or even overshadowing, the damage from COVID.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/business\/article254614217.html\">Here<\/a> is <i>The State<\/i> on the opening of this <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=trenholm-plaza\">Trenholm Plaza<\/a> location, and <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/07\/06\/simply-mac-bankruptcy-who-to-call-what-happened-and-why\">here<\/a> is a story from <i>Apple Insider<\/i> on the bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Larry, who says this particluar store may never have re-opened)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/4840+Forest+Dr+Suite+63,+Columbia,+SC+29206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply Mac was an Apple reseller whose strategy was to locate in smaller areas not having an official Apple store. Once part of the Gamestop chain, the brand was spun off in 2019, just in time to run up against the pandemic. Although the stores did re-open later, the damage had been done and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1332,2072,89,269,96,3604,31,98],"class_list":["post-21010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-4840-forest-drive","tag-apple","tag-computers","tag-forest-acres","tag-forest-drive","tag-mac","tag-trenholm-plaza","tag-trenholm-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21010","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=21010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}