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May 20, 2019 · Incredible Universe was an electronics big-box chain founded by the Tandy Corporation, a leather goods company. It was founded in 1992 and went bankrupt in just five years. A still from a TV spot ...
Just for Feet – bankrupt in 1999, acquired by Footstar, final stores closed in 2004. MC Sports – filed for bankruptcy and closed in 2017. Modell's Sporting Goods – first store opened in 1889. On March 11, 2020, the company filed for bankruptcy, and announced it would close all 115 stores.
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- 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.
- Computer City. Once a computer store chain, Computer City was sometimes affectionately referred to as a ‘more pleasant clone of CompUSA,’ and from its interior setup, you could certainly see why.
- Circuit City. Yes, Circuit City is technically back, but it did also, at one point, die. A casualty of the early 2000s recession, Circuit City was at one point one of the most recognizable and successful consumer electronic retailers thanks to its stellar service and iconic storefronts.
- Tweeter. The rise and fall of Tweeter has been well-documented on CE Pro, and while website transfers and updates has led to some of the older articles being lost to time, our retrospective on the matter still lingers.
- Radio Shack. This one’s a wild ride. Radio Shack (now RadioShack but we’ll get to that) originally started off selling small components and parts for radios.
Feb 24, 2021 · Feb 23, 2021, 10:02 PM PST. Fry’s Electronics, one of the last big brick-and-mortar electronics store chains in the United States — and a Silicon Valley institution in particular — is ...
Feb 24, 2021 · 01:24. See More Videos. New York CNN Business —. Fry’s Electronics suddenly closed all of its stores overnight, ending a nearly four-decade run in business. The company, which had 31 stores ...
Feb 24, 2021 · Fry's Electronics, the decades-old superstore chain with locations in nine American states, has gone defunct. Bay Area TV station KRON-4 was the first press outlet to confirm the news late Tuesday ...
