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Oct 4, 2019 · Eventually, Zayre was sold off to Ames Department Store, but Zayre’s one-time subsidiary TJX (which now owns TJMaxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods) is thriving.
- Madison Troyer
- Ames. - Category: Department store. - Year founded: 1958. - Year defunct: 2002. - Lifetime: 44 years. Before there was Walmart—four years before, to be exact—there was Ames.
- Anchor Blue. - Category: Clothing. - Year founded: 1972. - Year defunct: 2011. - Lifetime: 39 years. Anchor Blue, a teen clothing chain launched in 1972, filed for bankruptcy in 2011 after 39 years of business.
- BI-LO. - Category: Grocery stores and supermarkets. - Year founded: 1961. - Year defunct: 2021. - Lifetime: 60 years. A former Winn-Dixie executive, Frank Outlaw, started the BI-LO supermarket chain in 1961 when he purchased four grocery stores in the Greenville, South Carolina area.
- Blockbuster. - Category: Video rental. - Year founded: 1985. - Year defunct: 2014. - Lifetime: 29 years. Founded in 1985, Blockbuster was once the entertainment giant of the world, with more than 65 million registered customers and more than 9,000 stores in the United States alone.
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Inside, these stores are as generically similar as their names. All sell row after row of American snacks – most feature both a bespectacled Harry Potter and a red Jelly Belly sporting a chef’s hat. A single box of cereal can easily set you back £10, while you won’t get much change from a fiver if you want a bag of exotic M&Ms. Most of these shops ...
‘Consumers can’t seem to get enough of all things retro at the moment,’ says Shokofeh Hejazi, senior editor at foods trend agency the Food People. Hejazi explains that ‘there’s comfort in familiarity, especially in uncertain times’ so shoppers look for ‘nostalgic’ treats. At first glance, this answer seems counterintuitive – how many of us ever mun...
Now that candy stores have taken control of central London’s tourist traps, they’re coming for your neighbourhood too, leaving a trail of sour dust in their path. Faizal Ravat converted his Stoke Newington newsagent into Hollywood Candy two years ago. ‘I believe if I were still a newsagent, I would’ve shut the shop by now and gone away,’ he says. R...
- Amelia Tait
Feb 24, 2020 · From Woolworth to Marshall Fields, here are 10 US chain stores where everyone shopped back in the day but have since closed.
- Henry Blodget
Below is a list of notable defunct retailers of the United States. Across the United States, a large number of local stores and store chains that started between the 1920s and 1950s have become defunct since the late 1960s, when many chains were either consolidated or liquidated.
Mar 15, 2019 · America's department store landscape has undergone seismic change over the past few decades alone. While today's shoppers turn to Saks, Neiman Marcus, and Macy's for everything from prom dresses to electronics, not long ago, they were spending money at now-defunct department stores like Hecht's, Ames, and Marshall Field's.
Feb 20, 2022 · These types of stores have always existed in Oxford Street. But with established brands fleeing the capital’s premier shopping destination, they’ve taken over. Before becoming the Ministry of Gifts and Luggage, 474 Oxford Street was a Vodafone, Candylicious had been a Schuh.
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