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Check out your favorite stores from the '90s that are closed today. From The Limited to Wet Seal, these stores were staples at every mall in the 1990s.
Florsheim – mall shoe store; still sells online; Gadzooks – Founded in 1983 as a T-shirt store, Gadzooks grew to a 250-store mall fashion retailer before making an ill-advised decision to discontinue menswear. The company was purchased by competitor Forever 21 out of bankruptcy in 2005, with its stores either closed or converted to F21 formats.
This budget-friendly women's apparel retailer used to be a familiar sight at strip malls across the country and had more than 1,200 stores at its peak in the late '90s. In 2012, stores were closed ...
Copps Department Store (Stevens Point), their department stores closed 1984, when Copps decided to shift their focus over to their supermarkets. Gimbels , converted to Marshall Field's then one former Gimbels location to Macy's 2006. Hoff Department Store (Mount Horeb) closed 1984; H.C. Prange Co. , sold to Younkers in 1992
After changing its name to Tween Brands in 2006 and shuttering or rebranding most locations a few years later, Blue Alliance acquired the name Limited Too and relaunched almost 200 stores in 2016.
Claire's filed for bankruptcy on March 19, 2018, and closed 92 stores in the process. [95] It emerged from bankruptcy in October. [96] Coldwater Creek closed all stores in 2014 and became an online-only retailer operated by Sycamore Partners [97] until a new store opened in Burlington, Massachusetts in early 2018. [98]
After more than 30 years in business, Northeast-based children’s clothing store Rugged Bear closed down all 29 of its retail locations in 2011. Closed Sam Goody store at the Wayne Hills Mall in ...
Research published by global retail analyst IHL Group in 2019 suggests that the so-called retail apocalypse narrative was an exaggeration, with "more chains that are expanding their number of stores than closing stores.” [7] That year, retailers in the United States announced 9,302 store closings, a 59% jump from 2018, and the highest number ...