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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Today, the chain is defunct—after dwindling down to one location, the last Howard Johnson's restaurant (in Lake George, New York) closed in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] Judy's Home Style Hamburgers & Fixins identical in all aspects to Wendy's with blue being the main color instead of the red of Wendy's. Mascot was named for a girl Judy.
By 1985, it operated 90 stores in California and six other U.S. states. In 1991, the company changed its name to MacFrugals. It later expanded to the Southwest and the South, but left both markets in the late 1990s. In 1997, Consolidated Stores Corporation bought out the remaining MacFrugals stores for $995 million (~$1.75 billion in 2023) in ...
In January 2001, the AOL-Time Warner merger was completed, at which time the chain was placed up for sale with plans to close if not sold. [3] In February 2001, the flagship location on New York's Fifth Avenue was closed, and on September 11th, 2001, the store at the World Trade Center was destroyed when the Twin Towers collapsed.