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  1. May 20, 2019 · The number of defunct electronics retailers is a testament to that. From wild, rambling Crazy Eddie to the farm-themed Gateway Country, here are a few electronics stores that went out of...

    • 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.
    • Saundra Latham
    • The Retail Apocalypse. Whether from changing consumer habits, the pandemic, or financial mismanagement, many well-known retailers have been forced to shut their doors in recent years.
    • Lord & Taylor. It was the beginning of the end for Lord & Taylor when the nation's oldest department store sold its historic New York City flagship store for $850 million in 2017.
    • Kaufmann's Department Store. Kaufmann's was once "one of the most important department stores in the United States," as one newspaper put it in the early 20th century.
    • Pier 1 Imports. Pier 1 declared bankruptcy in 2020, right before the pandemic had fully taken hold, and the company hoped to find a buyer to breathe life into the struggling chain of home-goods stores.
  2. 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.

  3. Dec 25, 2023 · In a long journey that had a final demise this year, the everything-store filed for bankruptcy in April. It closed its final 360 stores and also 120 buybuy BABYs in one of the largest retail ...

  4. Feb 24, 2021 · Frys Electronics suddenly closed all of its stores overnight, ending a nearly four-decade run in business.

  5. Dec 29, 2019 · HHGregg: 220 stores. Electronics and appliance retailer HHGregg filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March 2017 and had initially planed to close 88 stores in 15 states. It ended up ...

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