Defunct restaurant chains and retailers

[inkyatari]

Find your favorites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_retailers_of_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_fast-food_restaurant_chains

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_restaurants_of_the_United_States

Yes, there's a Wikipedia page for everything.

not for me

Sure there is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_71

[bing101]

Robinsons and Emporium they used to be big name department stores in California. However Robinsons may have disappeared from Los Angeles but somehow its name exist in the Philippines as a mall in the Manila area.

[Brandon]

Robinsons and Emporium they used to be big name department stores in California. However Robinsons may have disappeared from Los Angeles but somehow its name exist in the Philippines as a mall in the Manila area.

Bizarrely, both are now eMacy-ated.

[bing101]

Robinsons and Emporium they used to be big name department stores in California. However Robinsons may have disappeared from Los Angeles but somehow its name exist in the Philippines as a mall in the Manila area.

Bizarrely, both are now eMacy-ated.

http://www.robinsonsdepartmentstore.com.ph/

Here's the Philippines edition of Robinsons.

[D-Dey65]

Yes, there's a Wikipedia page for everything.

Unless some bureaucratic administrator thinks it's not notable.

And FYI, I certainly remember Grants, when they came out to Coram Plaza, then went out of business only for that store to be replaced by Two Guys.

[bing101]

http://www.shakeys.com/our-story/


https://www.shakeyspizza.ph/index.asp


Shakeys Pizza was born near the Sacramento State University Campus on J street at 57th in East Sacramento.
But the Sacramento area outlets no longer exist but its Philippine outlets are still in business.


http://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/123440/robinsons-galleria-cebu-new-hangout


http://www.thedepartmentstoremuseum.org/2010/05/jw-robinson-co-los-angeles.html
https://dornsife.usc.edu/la-walking-tour/robinsons-department-store/


http://seekingalpha.com/article/4045665-robinsons-retail-leading-player-penetrated-philippines-retail-industry



Robinsons Los Angeles no longer exists but its Philippine stores somehow are expanding.

[amroad17]

^ Give these other countries 40-50 years and they will tire of some of these restaurant chains and retailers also.

[jp the roadgeek]

This is exactly what happened to Kenny Rogers Roasters: gone from the US but all over Southeast Asia

http://www.kennyrogersroasters.com/branch.shtml

[bing101]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Records


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Palette_Records


Tower Records a company that was also born in Sacramento, CA no longer exists in the USA but currently holds recording contracts to Japanese Pop Stars.

[bing101]

http://www.toledoblade.com/Retail/2017/04/04/Apocalypse-for-retail-3-500-stores-closing-in-17.html

Wow this headline says it. 2017 is the apocalypse of the retail store with Sears, Kmart, Payless, JC Penney and others mentioned in the article.

[thenetwork]

http://www.toledoblade.com/Retail/2017/04/04/Apocalypse-for-retail-3-500-stores-closing-in-17.html

Wow this headline says it. 2017 is the apocalypse of the retail store with Sears, Kmart, Payless, JC Penney and others mentioned in the article.

Some of it has to do with over-saturation of a market.  Payless Shoes announced yesterday that it was closing 400-500 stores PDQ, but when you look at their spreadsheet of closures, and the "next nearest store" to the one being closed, many are within 10-15 minutes driving. 

And with Family Dollar announcing today that they will be closing over 100 stores, a lot of that is due to oversaturation as well of Family Dollar, Dollar Tree and Dollar General.  Collectively, some of these stores merged together, some Family Dollars became Dollar Generals, and then you have them on nearly every block like Starbucks.

And, at least in my area, when Albertsons and Safeway merged together, you all of a sudden had 3 Safeways in a 5-mile radius.  In a town my size, that was overkill for a single supermarket chain.

[roadman65]

Belk, originally Belk Lindsay or Belk Hudson, had stores in the southeast.  The one in Florida Mall in Orlando closed many years ago, then another store resurfaced years later in The Loop in Kissimmee, FL.  They did not last long as now they are something else. 

I believe the one that lasted in Waycross, GA sometime in the past decade closed as well.

[hbelkins]

I remember Belk originally as Belk Simpson.

[Takumi]

I remember Belk as Leggett here in Virginia.

[briantroutman]

Belk, originally Belk Lindsay or Belk Hudson, had stores in the southeast.

They're still very much a southeastern chain–if you were insinuating that they had retreated from the region. They still have locations in Florida, too.

The company's tagline is MODERN. SOUTHERN. STYLE.

[epzik8]

There was a discount department store called Ames in some parts of the US. There was one near where I live that's now a furniture store. Ames went under in 2002.

[Brandon]

There was a discount department store called Ames in some parts of the US. There was one near where I live that's now a furniture store. Ames went under in 2002.

Ames came here twice.  Once when they bought Zayre.  Then again, about 2000, on their own.  The first one became a Best Buy (now Marshalls) & an OfficeMax.  The second was a Goldblatt's, a Venture, then Ames.  Then another Goldblatt's, followed by a Food4Less, which it has been for the last 13 years.

[Takumi]

I barely remember Ames. The one closest to me closed in the early 90s, when they went through their post-Zayre issues. All I remember is the trademark thatched roof that the entire strip mall it was in had (and still does to this day), and that the entrance/exit chime was the same as you hear at 7-Eleven.

[Rothman]

Know both Zayre and Ames.  Used to be a Zayre in Hadley, MA.

[bing101]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-07/stores-are-closing-at-a-record-pace-as-amazon-chews-up-retailers

The blame amazon effect is at play here.

[bing101]

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/hhgregg-to-shut-down-after-failing-to-obtain-a-buyer


This store chain closures affect Indiana.

[Rothman]

Just confirmed with a friend that there was a small chain in MA called Almy's.  Had stores in Hadley and Salem.  Sort of like JC Penney.

Oh...and just thought of Steiger's (clothing).    I believe their Springfield, MA store hung on for a while, but I believe it had gone the way of the dodo.

[jp the roadgeek]

Don't remember Almy's, and I barely remember Steiger's.  Believe it or not, though, this place still exists in name only, and in one location as a furniture and mattress store:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHUyxqyhIFU

[Rothman]

Huh.  I remember Railroad Salvage, but I don't remember where it was in Hadley.  I remember the Connecticut location in Windsor, though.

[bing101]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AYzA2uyd9_s&feature=em-uploademail


Ted Talks does a segment on dead malls.