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Pier 1 used to be FANTASTIC. I first came across it in a little shopping center in Oregon that had literally everything I could imagine from all over the world. Best place to shop for gifts, especially at Christmas. It was unique and beautiful, and I truly miss what it used to be. Then it got big and obnoxious, and I switched to World Market. Same thing. They were terrific for a while too and then lost their unique appeal. Sad, really. The most amazing things I find now are in out of the way thrift stores. RIP Pier 1.
Imagine where Blockbuster would be now if they had accepted Netflix's offer to buy them. They may have still succumbed to other streaming services, but their death could've been a lot slower.
I remember when Sports Authority closed. I bought out one store's entire stock of (American) football equipment for $13,600 (about 80% off). Donated it to the youth org I coached for. It was awesome! Did the same thing years earlier with the Modell's in Green Acres mall.
Kmart as an independent company was dead in the early 90’s. Several holding companies including a scandal along the lines of enron bounced its assets around. Though the last three stores closed in 2022, the stores were Kmarts in name only. For about a decade before they all closed in 2022, three separate companies were running stores under the Kmart name. So it depends how you define shut down. Kmart died as an individual corporation when Seats bought them. It went steadily down for two decades after until they finally all died.
Toy's R Us, Radio Shack, Kay Bee toys, Dreamworks studios, J.C. Penny, Claire's, Pan Am airlines, Kodak film, Circuit city, Tower Records, Compaq computers, Payless shoe stores, RCA, Sharper Image, Save A Lot food stores, Bed bath and beyond, Sam Goody's, Big Boy's. there are way more than 25 so I'm sure they can do a part 2 or even a part 3
I think probably because they kept the 6 second video length limit in place way too long. They eventually removed it, but by then everybody had it in their head that was what Vine was and the 6 second video was too limiting and just used other options.
7:40. I once worked in a five-story old A&P warehouse in Pittsburgh that had been bought by a window company. I found all kinds of old stuff on the upper floors. It was fantastic notwithstanding the fact that I was working a dangerous job making $5.25/Hr back in the eighties. We used to get drunk at breaks and lunch.
Freds Dollar store and Pharmacy, (basically a mini Walmart) Started in 1947 - 2019 originally called good luck stores, then one of the brothers changed the name to Freds after the oldest brother, they had 396 stores with 155 pharmacy's in 15 southeastern states.
I miss Teacana too I 😢 teavana was the first one that introduced me to herbal tea because as soon as I got diagnosed with MS and it got bad enough for to be diagnosed I had never had herbal tea and I didn't really like tea but my husband got me the herbal tea and oh my gosh I loved it and so now I am a true herbal tea drinker and I was even doing loose leaf
DAMN! That's a lot of names I've heard but never shopped at! The only ones I miss are Blockbuster and Ringling Brothers, as I never shopped at any of the others (though I knew a few of the names!!
I remember Radio Shack was selling cell phone plans near the end. Which was weird, because you could just go to the AT&T or TMobile store down the street. Why you would ever go to Radio Shack for that, I don't know. It's obvious they didn't know, either.
Redbox yes. Radio shack was long gone before any of these. Though some stores remained open after another company bought a section of the stores from the bankruptcy, they were Radio Shack in name only. It is sort of like older lawn and garden products like Troy built or Craftsman. After the original company goes belly up another company buys the intellectual property and puts those names on their own products.
Rather like the health insurance industry, most folks didn't understand/appreciate Blockbuster's business model. Rentals paid the bills, but late fees were how they made their profits. You rented a movie for three days, but the late fee was the same price of the rental -- per day. And the "day" started at midnight, so by the time the store opened, 10 hours of the first "day" is gone, and if you waited until after work, the first "day" is only 6 hours. Plus, when the store closed at 10pm, you lose 2 hours on the last day, which makes the movie late, because it isn't processed for check-in until the store reopens. Also, because BB required a credit card, folks who refused to pay, or decided to keep the movie, just saw the charge on their Visa bill, anyway. (And since BB got movies before public retail release to Walmart, for example, BB paid about $150 per rental copy. So, keeping the movie was a $200 charge.) Netflix messed all that up.
Here in the Philippines where I live, many Toys R Us stores have actually set up shop in numerous malls throughout the country beginning in 1985, and they are still in operation to this day owing to the widespread expansion of different mall chains like SM, Robinsons, Ayala Malls, and other department stores.😊🇵🇭
Sears? K-Mart [US]? Toys R Us [who si making a comeback I heard, but have never SEEN.] uU, I'll come back with more that were missed? This was a great if depressing List, Mike.
@@AudreyC379 I used to work for JC Penney in the Home Department. They are still around, they closed many stores, most of them very small and in distant locations. We have one about 90 minutes away [due to winding roads.]
Mike I can't believe 99 cents store no longer exists I bought Valentines Day gifts this January!!! I still have a macaw crystal that I bought in Pier Imports 😊 Big hug from northern México ❤🇲🇽
Good video and so sad things like that happened to companies but life moves on had some cool times with a few like Blockbuster who couldn't and others really had to be suspect like Theranos had to really watch out for claims like that.
I love wet seal. It had even cuter clothes in the 90s and early 2000s. The thing is is that it was not affordable to me so I couldn't really shop there like that.
Surprised you didn't have Sears. I worked at their Woodland Hills Mall branch in Tulsa in receiving (longest-running receiver) from 2002-2019 when they closed Now, it's as Scheels.
99cents stores was still making a profit despite what they said. It was owned by a Hedge Fund and was already being gutted like ToysRus. So, the Hedge decided it was more profitable to close, sell the assets and allow them to get that sweet, sweet tax refund. Because that's how hedge funds work. You buy, squeeze profits out, gut it and then dump it.
Private equity has ruined many businesses in this video. Sports Authority, Sears Kmart, 99cents store. They strip the assets and load the companies up with hundreds of millions of dollars of debt. Then bankruptcy follows. It should be illegal.
We used to call our Blackberry phones "crackberrys" because we couldn't put them down. Very few kids owned one as they were mostly used by us adults that worked 60+ hours a week. We didn't go anywhere without them and we were always on them. So basically they were the phones that anyone from age 5 to 105 have today. 😂
So.. Gildan bought American Apparel.. Even being just a Finn, but being a band shirt enthusiast, I do know both brands.. Yea. Many of these names listed I had neverever even heard of.
Barney's ugh. They were the first store I'd seen with as many sizes under zero as over. The rude employees and boring styles sent me next door to Sack's. I think I bought my first 'big girl' perfume from the wonderful saleslady out of sheer spite.😂
Boy that was contrived. The only one I had heard of, as a provincial MidWesterner, was the A and Poo Feed Store. Blackberry sort of, but I never realized they were their own company. I am soul-sore about the war zone in NY City, so how about the 25 worst NY gangsters. Or biggest HQ's. OH! I dare you to do the 25 biggest companies in the world by annual sales.
How about oing a post about British companies that have disappeared in the last ten years or so. I can name Debenhams and British Home Stores to start you off.
Blockbuster ruined their chances when they turned down the offer to buy Netflix. I used to enjoy poking around Pier 1. Never bought anything, though. Sorry, guys.
№s 22, 14, 4, 2, that's IT! and not too much. Haven't heard of most of the rest of them, but I watched 'til the end like I promised unlike those couple of doom and gloom vids I told you I would never watch. 🤓😎✌🏼
I was homeless,did drugs,went into prison,where I got to know God.He changed my life. Now I have a home,a wife and a lovely year old daughter (Zoe), and a stream of income that gets me $47,000 weekly. Plus a new identity -a child of God, Hallelujah 🇺🇸❣️❤️❤️
Our God indeed is a covenant keeping God. Has he said a thing and not perform it? I watch how things unfold in my life, from penury to $155,000 every three months and I can only praise him and trust him more. Hallelujah🙌🏻❤️
After I raised up to 825k trading with her I bought a new House and a car here in the states 🇺🇸🇺🇸 also paid for my 10yrs old son's brain surgery (Oscar). Glory to God.shalom.
I know you mostly, do American brands as that is your predominate market, could you please do UK brands that have been around for a very long time who went bust i.e. BHS, Wolthwoths. Thank you for the great videos.
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Pier 1 used to be FANTASTIC. I first came across it in a little shopping center in Oregon that had literally everything I could imagine from all over the world. Best place to shop for gifts, especially at Christmas. It was unique and beautiful, and I truly miss what it used to be. Then it got big and obnoxious, and I switched to World Market. Same thing. They were terrific for a while too and then lost their unique appeal. Sad, really. The most amazing things I find now are in out of the way thrift stores. RIP Pier 1.
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Some of these places are sooooo missed. 😢Modell, pier 1, etc...
Blockbuster was given the chance to buy Netflix when it was still just mailing out dvds, but shot itself in the foot when they refused.
Imagine where Blockbuster would be now if they had accepted Netflix's offer to buy them. They may have still succumbed to other streaming services, but their death could've been a lot slower.
I remember when Sports Authority closed. I bought out one store's entire stock of (American) football equipment for $13,600 (about 80% off). Donated it to the youth org I coached for. It was awesome! Did the same thing years earlier with the Modell's in Green Acres mall.
What about Toys R Us?
Still operating in Canada
They've reopened. New Flagship Store is at the Mall of America.
Toys are us see still around they are just online now as of 2024
@Jesuscrisis they have a new Flagship Store at Mall of America and operating in Macy's as well.
What about Radio Shack and Circuit City? 😮
& hhgregg too
The video is about the most recent decade. Those went out before that.
Sears. Montgomery Ward.
Those went out during the 1990s.
Kmart
Died in the 1980sl
Actually, no; I remember growing up in the 90's and early 2000's and going there every now and then. 😉
Kmart as an independent company was dead in the early 90’s. Several holding companies including a scandal along the lines of enron bounced its assets around. Though the last three stores closed in 2022, the stores were Kmarts in name only. For about a decade before they all closed in 2022, three separate companies were running stores under the Kmart name. So it depends how you define shut down. Kmart died as an individual corporation when Seats bought them. It went steadily down for two decades after until they finally all died.
You left out best buy, K-Mart, Sears.. just to name a few... lol much love
Toy's R Us, Radio Shack, Kay Bee toys, Dreamworks studios, J.C. Penny, Claire's, Pan Am airlines, Kodak film, Circuit city, Tower Records, Compaq computers, Payless shoe stores, RCA, Sharper Image, Save A Lot food stores, Bed bath and beyond, Sam Goody's, Big Boy's.
there are way more than 25 so I'm sure they can do a part 2 or even a part 3
Wards, like Sears... yes, I miss them.
He also missed toysRus
@@Dragnmastralex BEST BUY ???
Sorry, wrong person
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I still dont understand how Vine died and TikTok lived. It's obvious people still liked short form content, so what happened?
I think probably because they kept the 6 second video length limit in place way too long. They eventually removed it, but by then everybody had it in their head that was what Vine was and the 6 second video was too limiting and just used other options.
7:40. I once worked in a five-story old A&P warehouse in Pittsburgh that had been bought by a window company. I found all kinds of old stuff on the upper floors. It was fantastic notwithstanding the fact that I was working a dangerous job making $5.25/Hr back in the eighties. We used to get drunk at breaks and lunch.
I never heard of more than half of these places...
Freds Dollar store and Pharmacy, (basically a mini Walmart) Started in 1947 - 2019 originally called good luck stores, then one of the brothers changed the name to Freds after the oldest brother, they had 396 stores with 155 pharmacy's in 15 southeastern states.
Bed, Bath and Beyond
Got the time down get to see new videos just before work now
Pay less shoes
Died in the 1990s.
It's online now, through Amazon. They closed their last store in June 2019.
I miss Teacana too I 😢 teavana was the first one that introduced me to herbal tea because as soon as I got diagnosed with MS and it got bad enough for to be diagnosed I had never had herbal tea and I didn't really like tea but my husband got me the herbal tea and oh my gosh I loved it and so now I am a true herbal tea drinker and I was even doing loose leaf
DAMN! That's a lot of names I've heard but never shopped at! The only ones I miss are Blockbuster and Ringling Brothers, as I never shopped at any of the others (though I knew a few of the names!!
You forgot really too important icons Redbox. It’s gone recently and RadioShack.
I remember Radio Shack was selling cell phone plans near the end. Which was weird, because you could just go to the AT&T or TMobile store down the street. Why you would ever go to Radio Shack for that, I don't know. It's obvious they didn't know, either.
Redbox yes. Radio shack was long gone before any of these. Though some stores remained open after another company bought a section of the stores from the bankruptcy, they were Radio Shack in name only. It is sort of like older lawn and garden products like Troy built or Craftsman. After the original company goes belly up another company buys the intellectual property and puts those names on their own products.
We still have a Radio Shack in Eldon, Missouri.
Sears
May sound crass but I didn't shed any tears for the downfall of Blockbuster. I felt they had it coming.
Rather like the health insurance industry, most folks didn't understand/appreciate Blockbuster's business model. Rentals paid the bills, but late fees were how they made their profits. You rented a movie for three days, but the late fee was the same price of the rental -- per day. And the "day" started at midnight, so by the time the store opened, 10 hours of the first "day" is gone, and if you waited until after work, the first "day" is only 6 hours. Plus, when the store closed at 10pm, you lose 2 hours on the last day, which makes the movie late, because it isn't processed for check-in until the store reopens. Also, because BB required a credit card, folks who refused to pay, or decided to keep the movie, just saw the charge on their Visa bill, anyway. (And since BB got movies before public retail release to Walmart, for example, BB paid about $150 per rental copy. So, keeping the movie was a $200 charge.) Netflix messed all that up.
People are mentioning toys r us but it's actually still in business, at least in Canada don't know about anywhere else.
Here in the Philippines where I live, many Toys R Us stores have actually set up shop in numerous malls throughout the country beginning in 1985, and they are still in operation to this day owing to the widespread expansion of different mall chains like SM, Robinsons, Ayala Malls, and other department stores.😊🇵🇭
It's reopened in the US with the new Flagship Store at Mall of America.
Why not Sears, Toys R US, and Woolworth?
Toys R Us has reopened with the new Flagship Store at the Mall of America.
@@esw3333 I didn't know that.
Sears? K-Mart [US]? Toys R Us [who si making a comeback I heard, but have never SEEN.] uU, I'll come back with more that were missed?
This was a great if depressing List, Mike.
Pretty sure JC Penney as well.
@@AudreyC379 I used to work for JC Penney in the Home Department. They are still around, they closed many stores, most of them very small and in distant locations. We have one about 90 minutes away [due to winding roads.]
Toys R Us has a new Flagship Store at the Mall of America.
I'm with you on Teavanna Mike
Blockbuster
I still have my old membership card.
Carnival Shoes
Lord and Taylor
Mike I can't believe 99 cents store no longer exists I bought Valentines Day gifts this January!!! I still have a macaw crystal that I bought in Pier Imports 😊
Big hug from northern México ❤🇲🇽
They went out of business because of "warmer winters"? Wow. You really have drunk the kool-aid.
Good video and so sad things like that happened to companies but life moves on had some cool times with a few like Blockbuster who couldn't and others really had to be suspect like Theranos had to really watch out for claims like that.
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Reopened with the new Flagship Store at the Mall of America.
Kash and Karry
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I love wet seal. It had even cuter clothes in the 90s and early 2000s. The thing is is that it was not affordable to me so I couldn't really shop there like that.
How did Sears not make this list ?!?!?!
Modells
Surprised you didn't have Sears.
I worked at their Woodland Hills Mall branch in Tulsa in receiving (longest-running receiver) from 2002-2019 when they closed
Now, it's as Scheels.
99cents stores was still making a profit despite what they said. It was owned by a Hedge Fund and was already being gutted like ToysRus. So, the Hedge decided it was more profitable to close, sell the assets and allow them to get that sweet, sweet tax refund. Because that's how hedge funds work. You buy, squeeze profits out, gut it and then dump it.
11:26 American apparel being shut down is so telling of the times. No fair wages, only sweatshop clothes. And the jobs sent to Central Americans.
Private equity has ruined many businesses in this video. Sports Authority, Sears Kmart, 99cents store. They strip the assets and load the companies up with hundreds of millions of dollars of debt. Then bankruptcy follows. It should be illegal.
Sears!!!!!!! How did you forget!!
I miss Dress Barn. I always found fabulous clothes at a reasonable price.
One you forgot, maybe because it just recently vanished: Tupperware
We used to call our Blackberry phones "crackberrys" because we couldn't put them down. Very few kids owned one as they were mostly used by us adults that worked 60+ hours a week. We didn't go anywhere without them and we were always on them. So basically they were the phones that anyone from age 5 to 105 have today. 😂
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I missed blockbusters video and modells.word up son
I miss blockbuster.
Frankly I only ever even heard of two of those companies 😊
Omg my favourite ever job was working at blockbusters 😂
I miss you so much!! 😢
My very first job was a cashier in A and P when I was in college. I hated that job! 😂
Man I would have went to teavana if I would have known about it. I can never find anywhere that is just solely your tea shop
So.. Gildan bought American Apparel..
Even being just a Finn, but being a band shirt enthusiast, I do know both brands.. Yea. Many of these names listed I had neverever even heard of.
Barney's ugh. They were the first store I'd seen with as many sizes under zero as over. The rude employees and boring styles sent me next door to Sack's. I think I bought my first 'big girl' perfume from the wonderful saleslady out of sheer spite.😂
You missed Barns and Noble
Block buster actually had a chance to buy Netflix early on but they declined to do so and well we aee how that turned out
Boy that was contrived. The only one I had heard of, as a provincial MidWesterner, was the A and Poo Feed Store. Blackberry sort of, but I never realized they were their own company.
I am soul-sore about the war zone in NY City, so how about the 25 worst NY gangsters. Or biggest HQ's.
OH! I dare you to do the 25 biggest companies in the world by annual sales.
Dollar tree isn't dollar tree no more it's $1.25
Isn't there still one open with Blockbuster
no kmart.... no sears
Redbox😢
How about oing a post about British companies that have disappeared in the last ten years or so. I can name Debenhams and British Home Stores to start you off.
Is it weird that I don't really care about any of these going out of business? I'm from Scotland so I guess I wasn't really affected.
Blockbuster ruined their chances when they turned down the offer to buy Netflix.
I used to enjoy poking around Pier 1. Never bought anything, though. Sorry, guys.
Toys r us
Radio shack
Companies/brands that create more ?s
Like: who is buying that stuff?
Do they even wear/use
Barney's New York is all boarded up now and the whole street is homeless drug neighborhood now.
Woolworths
Footlocker was founded by them.
№s 22, 14, 4, 2, that's IT! and not too much. Haven't heard of most of the rest of them, but I watched 'til the end like I promised unlike those couple of doom and gloom vids I told you I would never watch. 🤓😎✌🏼
I was homeless,did drugs,went into prison,where I got to know God.He changed my life. Now I have a home,a wife and a lovely year old daughter (Zoe), and a stream of income that gets me $47,000 weekly. Plus a new identity -a child of God, Hallelujah 🇺🇸❣️❤️❤️
Our God indeed is a covenant keeping God. Has he said a thing and not perform it? I watch how things unfold in my life, from penury to $155,000 every three months and I can only praise him and trust him more. Hallelujah🙌🏻❤️
The miracle of God is flowing, thanks for sharing! I'm genuinely curious to know how you earn that much monthly. Please help others too ❤❤
I'm so happy for you dear, please can you elaborate more about this? I definitely believe you're God sent 🙏
I thank God for bringing Mildred Evelyn Rooney brokage service into my life. I'm happy for God's grace have found me through her ❤️😊
After I raised up to 825k trading with her I bought a new House and a car here in the states 🇺🇸🇺🇸 also paid for my 10yrs old son's brain surgery (Oscar). Glory to God.shalom.
Here's another one I'M gonna watch. Let You know how many I'll miss🤓😎✌🏼
Yeah then it became the Dollar Tree everything was a dollar now it's called Dollar Plus but everything's a $1.25 + up to five dollars
You missed Toys R Us??????? Really?
Radio Shack
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I use to be able to still Google my MySpace photos still 😆
Talk about a tone deaf List 25 topic.
I know you mostly, do American brands as that is your predominate market, could you please do UK brands that have been around for a very long time who went bust i.e. BHS, Wolthwoths. Thank you for the great videos.
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Too many USA Only Companies on your list ahhh
😂😂😂 go find a youtuber in your own country. Lol
Eckerd drugs, Kmart thirft way pet valve super fresh gormans pebbles
They lost my favorite blend when bought by Starbucks, I thought Teavana needed to stay it's own thing.