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Borders. Year opened: 1971 Year closed: 2011 In a pre-e-reader, pre-Amazon world, browsing books at Borders was an idyllic way to spend an afternoon. The mega-bookstore started out with a single ...
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.
Burma-Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma-Vita company in Minneapolis owned by Clinton Odell. The company's original product was a liniment made of ingredients described as having come "from the Malay Peninsula and Burma " (hence its name). [1] Sales were sparse, and the company sought to expand sales by introducing a product with wider ...
Online magazine. An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to an online only magazine was the computer magazine Datamation. [1] Some online magazines distributed through the World Wide ...
American Apparel. If you spent any time at all cognizant of advertising in the ’90s or early aughts, you surely remember American Apparel. The business, which peaked with more than 250 stores ...
September 22, 2021 at 9:00 AM. onfilm/istockphoto. Sears and its sister company Kmart continue their slow demise, with a just-announced round of closings that will leave the chains with 19 and 16 ...
Two guys at a Football game send photos to another friend who isn't at the game. The friend who isn't at the game responds by sending photos of him at the apartment that belongs to one of the guys at game and with that guy's girlfriend. Bud Light "The Lady" At a bar, a man tries to impress a woman by buying her a Bud Light.
Closeout (sale) A closeout or clearance sale ( closing down sale in the United Kingdom [1]) is a discount sale of inventory either by retail or wholesale. It may be that a product is not selling well, or that the retailer is closing because of relocation, a fire (a fire sale ), over-ordering, or especially because of bankruptcy. [2]