Forgotten Retail/Restaurant Chains
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damn i forgot about them. my mom bought alot of her furniture from them back in the day.
At its peak, Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips had about 800 locations across the country.t
Fast forward to today, and the restaurant chain conjures up images of a bygone era.
Throughout the 1980s, Arthur Treacher's went through several owners and quickly began to lose ground to its competitors. Before long, hundreds of locations shuttered, and the chain was a shell of its former self.
The chain isn't completely gone, however. There are seven remaining locations around the country - three in New York and four in Ohio.
Damn that's how the gas stations do it tooWell where I lived it was BestBuy...walmart wasn't there yet and when they came there weren't selling electronics much. look it up...Green Acrees Mall location BestBuy moved directly in front of them
I know the feeling bruh
Word playa that was like a damn Hostile takeoverDamn that's how the gas stations do it too
This store also......
CHESS KING
This young men's shop dates back to the 1960s. Its founder figured boys liked chess and racing, and came up with Chess King. In the 1980s, this became the depot for those fashion plates hoping to emulate Jon Cryer in Pretty in Pink. It died off in 1995.
Them and Oak tree was my go to spot for club clothes, the times when the colors of the clothes were fruits and vegetables, like avocado, mustard, and tangerine. Those were some fond memories.
CHESS KING
This young men's shop dates back to the 1960s. Its founder figured boys liked chess and racing, and came up with Chess King. In the 1980s, this became the depot for those fashion plates hoping to emulate Jon Cryer in Pretty in Pink. It died off in 1995.
Saw this video on Youtube a while back. Whoever did the filming is a visionary. Who knew some people would love to see this 30 years later. I spent many of hours in that Fedco as a kid in West LA.
Used to be on Fulton Street downtown brooklyn
They haven't gone anywhere
Ponderosa and Hills damn that takes me back.
CHESS KING
This young men's shop dates back to the 1960s. Its founder figured boys liked chess and racing, and came up with Chess King. In the 1980s, this became the depot for those fashion plates hoping to emulate Jon Cryer in Pretty in Pink. It died off in 1995.
Lol one of the clothing stores I use to spend my paycheck in back in high school
Still around food is nothing how it was
At its peak, Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips had about 800 locations across the country.t
Fast forward to today, and the restaurant chain conjures up images of a bygone era.
Throughout the 1980s, Arthur Treacher's went through several owners and quickly began to lose ground to its competitors. Before long, hundreds of locations shuttered, and the chain was a shell of its former self.
The chain isn't completely gone, however. There are seven remaining locations around the country - three in New York and four in Ohio.
BestBuy was their Assassin
What started Circuit City down the path of failure was two really fucking stupid decisions they made to alienate a growing segment of customers.
1) Circuit City stopped selling Videogame systems other than Sony PlayStation PS1 for a few years. No Nintendo No Sega just Sony.
2) Divix. Circuit City ditched DVD in the early years and backed probably the worst idea in Home entertainment since the Atari ET Cartridge. If you remember, Divx media and Players were just like DVD except you didn't own them you paid a few dollars for the disc and you got to watch it for 24hrs. Every Divx player had to be connected to a phone line in order to work. Every time you wanted to watch the disc you had to pay. Who could come up with such a horrible and fucking stupid Idea? Hollywood Lawyers and a few Studios namely Disney and Fox if my memory serves me correctly. Circuit City became the official Divx headquarters and they dropped all DVD players and movies.
Two very horrible ideas going on simultaneously essentially handed thousands of customers over to Best Buy and Walmart. The video game thing was bad enough but it was nothing compared to the Divx decision. What CC didn't realize is that DVD'S were a big thing during the dot com Boom. Most of us Early adopters were building our libraries with BOGO. The prices were ridiculous. These online stores would be at least $10-15$ cheaper than brick and mortar stores plus you often got two for one. This led to a big Internet community of DVD enthusiast who formed an online boycott of CC. They became the poster boy for Divx. CC would miss out on the fastest growing Consumer electronic product in history. In the end it was estimated that Divx cost CC about 20¢ per share.
Thought all these joints were gone but there's a few still left
Surprised ya'll forgot about Bamberger's department store.
Y'all remember Channel's hardware store. Rickels and Ace put them out before Home Depot and Lowe's wiped all dem out basically. You'll find a few Ace hardware stores around but not many. I think True Value hardware store is done too.
that and employees was ripping off millions of dollars in cash and merchandise. it was always funny to me because when i first got out of college circuit city appeared in ohio and i applied for a job. they were so anal about who they hired, i was turned down because i had some traffic tickets in my past.
all those people who "passed" their background were the ones robbing them blind in the worse way.
plus they were paying employees out of the ass. in the beginning salespeople were making 6 figures working in the store. i remember that day they did the pay cuts to all their employees because there were fights at the north randall location and half the staff walked off the floor. making 40k to 100k being reduced to making 16k a year.
McCrory's was another Woolworths basically.
Y'all remember Channel's hardware store. Rickels and Ace put them out before Home Depot and Lowe's wiped all dem out basically. You'll find a few Ace hardware stores around but not many. I think True Value hardware store is done too.
ACE has 4800 locations Nation wide. TrueValue is still out there also. The nice thing about ACE is they carry things a Big Box store may not. If you have a House that was built 50, 60, or more years ago there may be some things you want to preserve to the look of the original and some of these neighborhood Hardware stores like ACE can help with those things.
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