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Post by Long A, Short A on Mar 18, 2018 6:43:55 GMT -5
The dirty Kroger just outside of downtown Louisville.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 18, 2018 8:36:14 GMT -5
Blockbuster. I thought they would be capable of adapting to change. Honest Eds. I'm still pissed about a landmark being turned into a condo!! as a guy who worked at Blockbuster until the bitter end, the amount of times they flat out REFUSED to adapt to a changing market would make your head spin. also my mall's keystone store used to be the giant-ass Sears (we now also have a giant-ass Wal-Mart). now it's closing and it's such a massive section of real estate I have NO idea what they could even put in there.
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Post by 4real on Mar 18, 2018 9:27:04 GMT -5
NME
I'm still stunned they are no more. Suppose the writing was on the wall when they stopped charging for it and just putting pop stars on the front cover.
I'm guessing people got tired of their snobbery so feel they didn't need music magazines anymore. I used to buy NME, Q, Kerrang & Metal Hammer on a regular basis but now barely ever read them.
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Post by Juice on Mar 18, 2018 9:43:29 GMT -5
Anyone remember Suncoast? I used to get all my dvds there.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 18, 2018 11:36:35 GMT -5
Excellent one. So many places just don't have anywhere to buy music any more on their high streets. Woolworths (UK) BHS Both were high street fixtures for me growing up. I came in to post Woolworths.
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Post by edtheripper on Mar 18, 2018 20:19:10 GMT -5
Anyone remember Suncoast? I used to get all my dvds there. They were a great resource for obscure dvds that the bigger stores would never carry. They could be a bit on the pricey side, but it was worth it just to get those titles without having to scour the ends of the earth searching.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Mar 18, 2018 21:01:17 GMT -5
Blockbuster. I thought they would be capable of adapting to change. Honest Eds. I'm still pissed about a landmark being turned into a condo!! I live in The Annex and it’s still so surreal to walk by the corner of Bathurst/Bloor to see absolutely nothing. Before it closed, my fiancée and I bought a couple of their handpainted signs and we had them framed and mounted. For those who don’t know, Honest Ed’s was a giant department store in downtown Toronto, famous for its giant light-up sign. It closed down in late 2016 and it was completely razed last month. It’s gonna become - surprise, surprise - a condo development like every other block in the city of Toronto. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Ed%27s
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Post by Juice on Mar 18, 2018 21:22:21 GMT -5
Anyone remember Suncoast? I used to get all my dvds there. They were a great resource for obscure dvds that the bigger stores would never carry. They could be a bit on the pricey side, but it was worth it just to get those titles without having to scour the ends of the earth searching. Most of my horror, troma and tna dvds came from Suncoast.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Mar 18, 2018 21:35:34 GMT -5
Robinsons-May
Their store's were like the Anchor Store of every mall in town in the late mid 90s,and they seemed to be the one place that both had lower price high quality affordable clothes and also like high end expensive brand's,the store was able to cater to both downscale and upscale shopper.Eventually the old saying goes you try and please everyone you end up pleasing no one. Eventually the downscale place's started getting nicer clothes and were able to beat them in price,and upscale people started to look down on the place as low quality. From king to non existent in less then a decade is quite shocking
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Post by sfvega on Mar 18, 2018 22:38:38 GMT -5
Blockbuster and WCW were the two mentioned that stuck out to me. As a kid, you walked into Blockbuster and it was just amazing. And their prices were so high for everything, but everyone just paid them. It was like a license to print money. The market just changed way too quickly and they had horribe leadership, so they became irrelevant insanely quickly. I think no matter what, they were pretty doomed. I agree that they would have messed up Netflix and someone would come along and do streaming better. They really were synonymous with a thing that became completely obsolete. So it's like being Blackberry at this point. Huge brand name that almost instantly became known as an outdated brand.
WCW did seem like they would always be around and it's weird that Bischoff was in a way the best and worst thing to ever happen to that brand. His aggressive moves built them to stunning highs, but his inability to control spending ended them rather abruptly.
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Post by The Barber on Mar 18, 2018 22:56:34 GMT -5
Not exactly gone, but...cable TV. I never thought the Internet would replace TV like it has. Now, cable is a big joke.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 18, 2018 23:21:56 GMT -5
Not exactly gone, but...cable TV. I never thought the Internet would replace TV like it has. Now, cable is a big joke. The only people I know that still have cable TV are either older retired folks or people that live in apartments and aren't allowed to get satellite. Between an antenna,Netflix and Hulu I can watch pretty much every modern show I want to see.
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Post by No Longer a Produceman on Mar 18, 2018 23:22:36 GMT -5
I second Montgomery Ward. They were my first job. I loved working there. Only thing I won’t miss is the pain in the ass customers we got during the last few weeks of the going out of business sales.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Mar 18, 2018 23:48:46 GMT -5
Blockbuster. I thought they would be capable of adapting to change. Honest Eds. I'm still pissed about a landmark being turned into a condo!! I live in The Annex and it’s still so surreal to walk by the corner of Bathurst/Bloor to see absolutely nothing. Before it closed, my fiancée and I bought a couple of their handpainted signs and we had them framed and mounted. For those who don’t know, Honest Ed’s was a giant department store in downtown Toronto, famous for its giant light-up sign. It closed down in late 2016 and it was completely razed last month. It’s gonna become - surprise, surprise - a condo development like every other block in the city of Toronto. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Ed%27sHonest Ed’s closed?!? Holy shit, I honestly had no idea
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Post by eDemento2099 on Mar 19, 2018 0:25:00 GMT -5
HMV still exists in Hong Kong, although I'm not sure whether it's like the ones that existed in North America.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Mar 19, 2018 1:54:57 GMT -5
Ansett Airlines Arguably Australia’s largest domestic carrier (Qantas was more focused on international routes). Just a year before they went belly up they were a major sponsor of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Then suddenly it’s gone, all flights grounded and cancelled.. Air New Zealand almost went tits up as well when they brought them out.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Mar 19, 2018 2:13:56 GMT -5
Ansett Airlines Arguably Australia’s largest domestic carrier (Qantas was more focused on international routes). Just a year before they went belly up they were a major sponsor of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Then suddenly it’s gone, all flights grounded and cancelled.. Air New Zealand almost went tits up as well when they brought them out. And Air New Zealand has a rep of being one of the best airlines in the World. And they almost went. A lot of big name airlines have gone the way of the dodo (multiple layers to that metaphor... thinking about it ) : Pan Am, TWA, Continental (well that was with a merger with United), Olympic Airlines, and who could forget Hooters Air.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 19, 2018 14:50:20 GMT -5
Winn Dixie,just found out they are filing for bankruptcy and closing a bunch of their stores. What is odd is where I grew up there was 3 Winn Dixies. The busiest one,which is located on Pass Road in Biloxi,is closing in a bit over a month. The other two are staying open for now.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Mar 19, 2018 14:59:27 GMT -5
HMV was and still is a shocker to me; I always thought they'd be the one company to withstand and adapt to online retail purely because they were HMV. For them to just disappear overnight was madness. I actually wasn’t surprised when they went tits-up. Who is going to buy a new release dvd for £15 when they can walk a couple of hundred yards to the nearest Tesco/Asda/Sainsbury’s and pick up the same dvd for £10? I’m happy to spend a little bit extra in a specialist shop for a product I could get cheaper in a supermarket but when the price hike was that much it was only a matter of time until the shit hit the fan.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Mar 19, 2018 21:49:29 GMT -5
Shopping malls, in general Also... today I learned: Sam Goody went bankrupt and shuttered its store in 2006!
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