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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 29, 2023 12:07:48 GMT -5
I think Right Stuf is still technically around, but hear they’re being eaten up by Crunchy Roll. If these words confuse you, they’re anime companies.
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Post by darbus alan on Sept 29, 2023 12:31:42 GMT -5
If Bed, Bath, and Beyond hasn't died yet, they're on life support.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Sept 29, 2023 12:37:20 GMT -5
A LOT of techie stores: Circuit City, RadioShack, and CompUSA just off the top of my head.
At this point, if you're not ordering it online, your choices are between Best Buy and the tech department of your local big box store, unless you're one of the sixteen states in the US that has a Micro Center.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Sept 29, 2023 12:38:25 GMT -5
Kmart?
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Post by Savage Gambino on Sept 29, 2023 13:51:45 GMT -5
Bought out by Sears... which has also since fallen off a cliff. At last count, there are 11 Sears and 2 Kmarts in the entire United States, including territories.
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Post by legendkiller1985 on Sept 29, 2023 14:17:56 GMT -5
I think Lord and Taylor liquidated. The one by me was an anchor store in our mall forever
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Post by ace on Sept 29, 2023 15:20:04 GMT -5
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on Sept 29, 2023 15:29:11 GMT -5
If Bed, Bath, and Beyond hasn't died yet, they're on life support. It completely died and then got Frankensteined by Overstock, which essentially re-branded as Bed, Bath, and Beyond. So, now, Bed, Bath, and Beyond is technically bigger than ever, but it's online only and is more or less O.co masquerading as Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Another similar one is Stein Mart...it went completely bankrupt and closed all of its stores, but had its IP bought by some online retailer, so it still exists as an online-only ghost of what it once was.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Sept 29, 2023 15:50:51 GMT -5
For restaurants, Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes went under a few years ago....served primarily fresh salads, some pastas, etc.
One day, they were open, and then the next, the entire company was history.
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Post by ANuclearError on Sept 29, 2023 15:53:36 GMT -5
Gfycat ended up dying after getting in the door early for embedded HTML5 videos, lead a major upgrade from the usual .gifs, but fell into the same trappings as countless image hosting sites before them did.
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Post by darbus alan on Sept 29, 2023 16:16:07 GMT -5
A LOT of techie stores: Circuit City, RadioShack, and CompUSA just off the top of my head. At this point, if you're not ordering it online, your choices are between Best Buy and the tech department of your local big box store, unless you're one of the sixteen states in the US that has a Micro Center. Fry's bit it a couple of years ago, too. I have a MicroCenter about 40-45 minutes away and a NewEgg distribution center about 15-20 minutes away. So I can save time and money on shipping if I get something off the latter and can usually pick up something will call the day after it ships. It's pretty convenient.
I have a local computer shop near me that focuses entirely repairs for desktops, laptops, and phones, and on building custom desktops for individual clients. They used to do retail of components ages ago, but the returns were so bad that they had to get out of it. But they still keep around some absolute relics of parts in display drawers (like a GeForce 260 AGP-based video card!) as conversation pieces lol.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Sept 29, 2023 16:20:46 GMT -5
A LOT of techie stores: Circuit City, RadioShack, and CompUSA just off the top of my head. I'm in Canada, up here Radio Shack rebranded as The Source, and is still running.
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 29, 2023 16:25:07 GMT -5
Did Stuckey's die during the pandemic? I know the one Scott Steiner owned closed down.
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Post by darbus alan on Sept 29, 2023 16:27:50 GMT -5
As bad as they're doing and with some of the shit they tried to pull during the pandemic, I'm genuinely surprised that Gamestop still exists.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 29, 2023 16:29:38 GMT -5
If Bed, Bath, and Beyond hasn't died yet, they're on life support. They died and were absorbed by Overstock. Basically the only thing left of the original company's its stock ticker and it's being cancelled out tomorrow.
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Post by fg on Sept 29, 2023 17:47:16 GMT -5
A LOT of techie stores: Circuit City, RadioShack, and CompUSA just off the top of my head. I'm in Canada, up here Radio Shack rebranded as The Source, and is still running. RadioShack stil exists down here in the States but they are a shadow of a shell of what they once were. CompUSA went bankrupt in the mid 2000s. CircuitCity I think has been rebooted as an online retailer I think.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 29, 2023 18:31:45 GMT -5
Wilko, a retailer here in the UK, is in its final days, having had its locations and brand name carved up between three of its former competitors.
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Post by darbus alan on Sept 29, 2023 18:33:05 GMT -5
I spit on RadioShack's grave because I applied for a job there once and the process was a freakin' nightmare.
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Post by The anti-ratings Luddite on Sept 29, 2023 18:38:01 GMT -5
I spit on RadioShack's grave because I applied for a job there once and the process was a freakin' nightmare.
Former (seasonal) employee here: You missed nothing.
Between payroll f***ery, diminishing commissions on products no one wanted to buy anyway, and a hard push away from the bread and butter of what made Radioshack... Radioshack and instead a glorified Sprint kiosk, they 100% deserved to go under.
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Post by salz4life on Oct 1, 2023 21:42:22 GMT -5
For restaurants, Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes went under a few years ago....served primarily fresh salads, some pastas, etc. One day, they were open, and then the next, the entire company was history. I really enjoyed that place. The closest one by us closed in the mid 2010s.
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