Chesapeake Knife & Tool in Fairfax open!!!

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smithd

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Hello to all: It is reopened at Fair Oaks Mall. They had a three month unexpected delay to reopen but they are back. It is a little nicer and bigger than the last store.
Have fun!!!

Doug
 
'Bout damn time. I don't get out to that mall very often, but I like to hit the CKT in any mall I visit.

Manji, he's talking about Fairfax, Va.

Chris
 
Thanks Doug, was wondering when they were finally going to open - was out there couple weeks ago and they were still closed - will have to go check them out soon.

Manji, the mall is in Fairfax County which is okay but Fairfax City in the center of the county is a super pretty little college (George Mason University) town and a designated Arbor (Tree) City.

Bill
 
In nearly all the malls I've been to in Northern VA or Baltimore I've encountered a CK&T store. I could be wrong, but isn't the one in Landmark Mall relatively new as well? Anyway, I rarely purchase things from there because the prices are the highest I've seen, sometimes higher than the MSRP. But I recently talked to a clerk in a store in Towson, and he said he might be able to price match a lower internet price (up to 25%, I believe) if I print out the page and bring it in. Has anybody tried doing that? Just curious.
 
I go to them often, chat with staff. If they have a really good sale on something (like around Christmass usually) I'll buy. But they are exhorbitant, a lot of the staff agree and just shake their heads when asked why. Something you can get online for 100-110 they'll want 180 for, plus tax.

Now if they would go within 25% of an internet price, I might support them. Otherwise I will go check things out, yes, handle them there, and buy online...but it is my money, and I want to keep as much of it as possible. As a store they take a chance on any customer not buying after handling the materials. I know this generates some arguing about supporting the B&M stores, but I'm not rich and 100-180 is a big difference.

I'm glad they're back so I can see the goodies up close.
 
My major problem with CK&T is that they seem to hire idiots as store clerks or, if they really do let a knowledgeable person slip by and actually get employed there, he/she doesn't seem to last very long. Another problem is that they do not seem to carry anything much but serrated or part serrated knives and I will not have one of them, I want plain edged, only. I have been told by one of the ones who slipped through that management is convinced that the mall market will not support plain edged knives, but then, why do they not carry knives such as the Gunting? That same person, after lustfully examining mine, was going to order one from an internet dealer, saying that CK&T management did not want to carry knives that attacted the teen "gangsta" element. Go figure, they carry all of these damned serrated knives, cheap and not so cheap, to sell to the walk-in kiddie trade but refuse to carry a true defensive implement because it might appeal to a "gangsta" element. I can't figure it out. I go in there once in a while to try the feel of a knife, but I go in less and less, as the experience is so damned irritating. I don't need the hassle.
 
Hmm. That is interesting, FullerH. I mean I love me some balisongs, and I hate how they're associated with dumb kid "gangstas" but I'd think that if I was some dumb managerial type at CK&T and wanted to discourage kids I'd get rid of those. Or at least get rid of the chinese clones and jags, and only sell benchmades. ;)

That said, I agree about the pricing and the general clerk profile mentioned earlier. :( I often get the sense they're trying to pressure-sell me. ALTHOUGH... at the Dulles Town Center location I have been treated very nicely several times, by clerks and someone who I believe was the manager. And a guy I was friends with in high school used to work at Fair Oaks CK&T right before they shut down, I don't recall if he was going to work there again after reopening, but he was a pretty smart one about the products.


edited because in a brain fart, I wrote the name of a mall in another state... D'oh! :)
 
It's a 10 minute walk from my office to the LakeForest Mall where there is a CK&T. I used to go to the one in Potomac Mills when I lived in Dale City. I absolutely love going in and looking around even though I know everything is overpriced and the staff is naive and pushy. I just tell 'em "I'm browsing".
 
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