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Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
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.
After closing more than 20 stores since its acquisition, Safeway announced in February 2007 that it would close another 14 stores in the Chicago area and convert 20 existing stores to the lifestyle format. [25] [26] After these store closings, Dominick's operated in 83 locations until they were closed on December 28, 2013.
Though little remembered today, the wholesale division sold merchandise in bulk to smaller merchants throughout the central and western United States and at that time did six times the sales volume of the local retail store. Chicago's location at the nexus of the country's railroads and Great Lakes shipping made it the center of the dry goods ...
Wanamaker's, Montgomery Ward, Barneys, and Marshall Field's. The palaces of retail legend once beckoned shoppers with their merchandise, restaurants, and holiday spectacles. Here's a nostalgic ...
Sears Holdings is closing 20 more stores in the US, in addition to the 245 closings that had already been announced this year. The company announced the latest closures to store employees on ...
No. of Stores Closing: 500-545. Under assault by video-on-demand and online video rentals, Blockbuster announced earlier this year that it plans to close 500 to 545 stores in 2010. That's in ...
Sears, Roebuck and Co. (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [5] commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [6]