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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.
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
A Woolworth dime store also served as a junior anchor next to JC Penney; after the Woolworth store closed in the 1990s, it was replaced with a twelve-screen multiplex (that closed December 5, 2011). Initially the dominant mall in the Memphis area, Raleigh Springs Mall would lose several stores over time as newer malls opened, such as Hickory ...
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.
All were Memphis favorites that we wish were still open. Holiday Deli & Ham Co.: 30 years of pimento cheese and ham Holiday Deli & Ham Co. at 585 Erin Dr. in East Memphis.
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]
Those stores span 38 states; the company says 670 stores remain in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. JCPenney was acquired by Simon Property Group for $1.75 billion in 2020.