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Sixth Avenue Electronics was a Springfield, New Jersey–based retail chain of consumer electronics stores, with locations in New Jersey and New York.The company was founded by Billy and Leon Temiz on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue in New York City in 1984, though following litigation in the early 2000s, the company eventually came to be owned by Billy and their youngest brother, Mike, after which ...
Another mega company that can rouse up serious nostalgia for people who grew up buying all their electronics locally and in-store is RadioShack. The once tech sector giant, founded in 1921, was on ...
The chain was bought out by ThreeSixty group and opened two new locations in Rockefeller Center, and LaGuardia airport, with plans to open up to 30 more in the future. KB Toys – liquidated February 9, 2009, which closed all of the remaining stores; [ 179 ] sold to Toys "R" Us and then to Strategic Marks, LLC; although it planned to reopen ...
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 ...
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 ...
This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. Defunct clothing retailers of the United States (28 P) Defunct consumer electronics retailers in the United States (37 P)
Family Christian Stores went out of business entirely in May 2017 and closed 240 stores. [123] Family Dollar announced the closure of up to 390 of its 8,326 locations on March 6, 2019. Parent company Dollar Tree also said it would convert 200 others to Dollar Tree. [124] An additional 970 Family Dollar stores were slated for closure in March ...
[4] Once the chain closed, one of its founders, Marvin Jemal, opened a new electronics chain, The Zone, in a number of former Wiz locations. The new chain, which heavily mentioned that it was from the founder of The Wiz, went out of business less than two years later.