Top 20 MORE Stores That Don't Exist Anymore
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- These stores did not stand the test of time. For this list, we’ll be looking at major retail chains that were dealt fatal blows when caught in the unrelenting gears of market forces. Our countdown of stores that don't exist anymore includes Steve & Barry's, Loehmann's, Virgin Megastore, Modell's, Pier 1, and more! Our economy has left innumerable retailers for dead over the decades. If your favorite childhood store was left off this list, let us know in the comments below!
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Honorable mentions:
Levitz Furniture
Mervyn's
Wicks Furniture
Service Merchandise
HomeBase (a now defunct hardware store)
Sports Chalet
Better to learn some facts more before mentioning some companies like KMart, for example 😊
Ur incorrect about suncoast. Maybe need more research on what’s opened and closed
Kmart, and Modell's is my favorite store!
Virgin Megastore, suncoast motion picture company and kmart
What surprised me the most was how recent Bed, Bath, and Beyond actually closed all it's doors. Every store on this list was part of my everyday life. It's like...after 2020...the World closed.
I know how you feel.
That's because 2020 was about survival of the fittest for companies
also Tuesday Mornings closed as well. Loved that store !
I miss Service Merchandise! They were a wonderful and great department store started in 1934 and ended in 2002. They provided prizes for The Price Is Right game show and they had a catalog to buy from! They were great and I miss them!
Suncoast was one of the mall stores I loved. Along with the Warner Brothers studio store
I have been to one, a few times! And found the original Blue's Clues on DVD 📀 !
I was surprised there was no mention of Sears after you mentioned Kmart. I was sad to lose both of them.
I was shocked you never mentioned Woolworth's, they were around practically forever, and Border's went bye-bye because they refused to adapt to the internet and then only sold their books through Amazon.
Also, I really miss Laneco. I haven't seen them since the 90's, but they sold just about everything Walmart style before Walmart was the place to go for that, but the stores were at least half the size.
Woolworths still exist in South Africa. I bought there last Thursday. They have the best rainbow cakes.
@@nothembajozi2862Woolworth is the largest retail chain in Australia and New Zealand too. But for the USA which this is most applicable to obviously they closed 17 July 1997..
They went over Woolworth's in part 1 and I miss it too. Mom liked to shop there once in a while because if there was something we needed for home but had trouble finding it, we could always rely on Woolworth's to have it. Plus, they had a cool toy section for me to browse in the meantime. 😉
Sears still exist in Mexico
@@nothembajozi2862 What flavors are a rainbow cake?
I miss Waldenbooks and Borders 💔
I worked at a K-Mart for a brief period in 2011. Even back then I could tell that K-Mart was on its metaphorical life support. It was really only a matter of time.
yo came to nz we still have kmart stores lost of them
Kmart was on life support since 2002 after they filed for bankruptcy. The executives were just milking the company. I worked in kmart and sears for a few years. In 2018, when sears filed for bankruptcy the executives gave themselves a 25 million bonus lol. They've all known it's been dying, so they are just paying themselves as much as they can. I only feel bad for the employees that had to work there. I worked with a lot of good people when i worked there.
At least we still have Barnes & Noble.
I spent so much time in Walden's and Suncoast videos. The memories!!!
Toys R Us and Hot topic were staples of my childhood and I miss them!
Hot Topic still exists :)
I loved Walden's ❤ Nothing like going to a book store!!!!
At least we still have Barnes & Noble.
I really miss Hastings. I used to go there for all my books and they had an awesome coffee shop...😢
Sadly Eddie Lambert ran Kmart & Sears to the ground. Kmart made the mistake of buying Sears
Sears was a good place, I wouldn't blame it for either stores demise. I will join you in blaming Lambert though.
Leveraged buyouts and other similar tactics used by Wall Street scumbags to ruin otherwise great companies shouldn't be legal. They ruined Sears/K-Mart, they ruined Toys R Us and they probably ruined others as well.
I miss Kmart 😢
I like how Watchmojo Liked this comment, but didn't acknowledge the Australian commenters saying there's still a bunch around them. Despite what they said in that reuploaded Content from 2022.
The fallen soldier.
So do I!
Same
Only one still exists tbh
Pier 1, KMart, Bed Bath and Beyond and The Limited going down are crazy because those stores dominated the Midwest.
Bed, Bath and Beyond isn't going anywhere in New Zealand. There's so many!
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 New Zealand is a made up place used only for Hollywood films.
I miss Kmart. The clothes, appliances, electronics, and music were there when I first went inside. I saw...
One Direction, Up All Night: Limited yearbook edition and Little Mix, DNA The Deluxe Edition.
The store is gone for now, but I won't forget and remember the memories.
The Disney Store, it was my favorite store to go to in the mall, also Gordonman was a good store cause they have a tv for kids, parent would drop off their kids there at the tv
Miss em days cashing checks for a $1 there and when a kmart had a Little Ceasars pizza inside it was way better and fresher 😭
And the blue line specials, those was always pretty darn good if you happen to be in the store and catch one.. remember those?
At least other stores are still around to this day, such as Hot Topic, Spencer's, Macy's, Dillard's, FYE, Best Buy, Target, etc.
Spencer's went out of business in my area several years ago and Bed Bath & Beyond is now out too. Target never made it to my area. Hope Best Buy save up and running...
Sadly, Macy's are closing for good.
@@michigangirl5072 where the hell'd you get that from?
@@NihilisticSnakeOnly some Macy's locations are closing. The one in my area though will remain open
Best Buy is on its way out soon. Faster in the states than in Canada.
KB Toys was my favorite store as a kid. Mainly because I could afford the toys there myself.
I totally remember Club Libby Lu!!!! My old friend, her mom, and me went there, when we were at the mall. It was a tween dreamworld!!!!
Sanity here in Australia, recently pivoted to an online only store after trying to diversify from just DVD, Blu-ray and CD’s to puzzles, clothes, pop vinyl etc
we still have Kmarts in Australia
I worked at Zany Brainy right after high school, and we had so much fun working there. For years after myself and the rest of my coworkers talked about how much fun we used to have while working there, and that we would've gladly gone back to work part-time. We used to have some pretty wild parties every weekend, and it pretty much formed how I thought retail should be. At the time we called it the Nordstrom of toy stores.
9 Kmarts left in the world seems wrong, I live in Australia and there are like 20 within driving distance
The Australian version of Kmart is owned by a different company (the same one that owns the Australian Target). Even though they share branding, it’s a completely separate chain.
And in new Zealand
Can we talk about how the real "Hot Topic" doesn't exist anymore
Delia's too (I think)
Back when it catered to the edgelord and goth community?
...... You're kidding, right?😐
Hot topic is literally made to cater to new trends, back then it was emo and Gothic and now it’s like fandoms and anime, because those are trending now
@@lisagibson2975I remember when they had their going-out-business sale at my local mall (Hawthorn Mall) in the 2010s. I bought some cute stuff from there and still have it to this day.
It's not just Kmart and Walden Books that I had to say goodbye to over the years. A lot of retailers came and went in my state, mall based or otherwise.
yo came to nz we still have kmart stores lost of them
1899!? I had no idea The K-Mart brand was that old. 🤯
Kmart was always a tough sell where I'm at. Had to compete with Pamida, shopko, sears, walmart, and target. Walmart kinda took them all out.
yo in new zealand we do a thing called a kmart run
Filene's wasn't the only store that got rebrand to Macy's. Other regional stores like Foley's, Strawbridge's, Famous Barr, Marshall Fields, Kauffman's, LS Ayres, The Jones Store, Robinson-May, Meier & Frank, and Hechts also suffer the rebrand too.
I remember going to Suncoast for all of my anime DVDs
That Suncoast video one hit hard. Feeling old today
Stores, Restaurants and other places I would like to bring back…, Toys R Us, K.B. Toys, Discovery Zone, McDonald’s PlayPlace, Burger King PlayPlace, Nickelodeon Store, Blockbuster Video, Hollywood Video, Suncoast, K-Mart, etc.!❤️📺🎶👍🏻
Surprised Value City Furniture didn't make the cut. It was founded in 1991 and until 2008, was a pretty big retail furniture chain. They filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and announced they would close all locations by the early 2010's. But here's the kicker, they're still around. In fact, most locations have since reopened. They made some kind of comeback but I don't know. Saw a commercial earlier this year and thought "They're still around?!". So yeah, they had some kind of revival even though bigger chains like Ashley Furniture, Big Lots and La-Z-Boy are still around and thriving.
{ I'm watching from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 } There used to be where I live/lived a Chinese owned grocery company store called Franklins and then in the mid 90s they expanded into premium fresh produce to compete with Woolworths Australia calling their subsidiary store Franklins Big Fresh . That secondary grocery store was an attempt at combining the grocery shopping experience with a theme park experience ( for the kids ) . Both stores no longer exist ( in Australia ) and haven't for a very long time . ♑️✍️🇸🇯
We had Big Fresh! Two of them in Auckland. Did you have the dancing fruit and the monkey at checkout?
I live in Sydney and there is a Kmart anywhere you go, even 24 hour Kmarts.
You forgot Ames that went out of business in 2002 and Circuit City in 2009
Those were in the previous list.
Interestingly, at one time Retail Ventures owned Filene's Basement. Retail Ventures incorporated Schottenstein's/Value City Stores (a Columbus OH based off-price retailer that began in 1916), American Eagle Outfitters and DSW (a major shoe retailer). Ultimately Schottenstein's South (the original store I worked at) closed in March 2, 2005 along with two VC/Grampa's locations in St. Louis, then the rest of the chain closed in Dec. 2008. Hilariously, Retail ventures itself was folded into DSW in 2011. I knew a woman who ran Schottenstein's South's shoe department. She had come to us via the DSW merger and I think if she were still alive, she'd have had a hearty laugh to find DSW is the "last man standing", so to speak.
You can add Target to that list. The same exec that ran Sears into the ground, got hired by Kmart and ran that into the ground, and now have moved on to Target...😂😅
Good to know! Then that reminds me I should probably spend that gift card I have for target before the store goes down the drain. ( again just saying it as a part joke, not getting mad at you sorry.
Sam Goody & Media Play back in the day they were the only places you could buy Anime.
One place I remember from childhood was kb toys. Don't think they existed outside of malls and malls are dying.
The mall my family and family-friends frequent is still going-and thriving!
my sister worked as a server for a Zellers restaurant when Zellers shut down most of their stores. on their last day they gave out free meals to anyone who came in to eat. at first, they only did it for the old man who came in EVERY day but then the restaurant manager decided to make it a thing for anyone/everyone to try and empty out their food inventory instead of it going to waste. word got around and people flocked there. the food there was so good. the same kind of food/meals you can get at a mom and pop restaurant/chip stand. the best kind of food that puts 5 star restaurants to shame. their tips were mad crazy that day.
food trucks also have amazing food
I miss Zellers myself. Around the time they closed, there were three of them in Thunder Bay. Two of them were converted to Wal-Mart stores, while the other became part of the ill-fated Target experiment in Canada.
Never even heard of most of these stores. Kmart, pier 1, bed bath and beyond, and virgin are the only exceptions.
Toys R Us, Sears, Warner Brothers Studio Store, Borders, the list goes on.
A different K Mart is actually a thriving brand in Australia and New Zealand, they have 323 stores and lots of loyal fans.
yo new Zealand here i love k mart
@@lilZman4112 Don't kid yourself. You don't matter.
I recognized Kmart (barely) and Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
I miss Borders. It wasn’t in Canada, but had great selection of VHS tapes back in the day, and good prices on books.
Kmart is alive and well in Australia
Kmart just closer upstate ny not too long ago
It’s a completely different and unrelated chain despite the branding. From what I can tell your Kmarts are way better than ours ever were, too.
It might be the same brand but a company in Australia might have bought the rights just like how Toys R Us is thriving in the Philippines even after a Filipino-Chinese company bought the rights
@@charliejoson9145 It was actually co-founded by the same company who founded the original American Kmart, so both Kmarts have the same origin, but they are different companies.
@@charliejoson9145Toy R US is still up and going in Canada by the way too!! That's because it's one of the biggest toy shops in that country. I'm still unsure why that one is open in Canada to this day.
Loved virgin megastore! Love listening to previews of new releases.
The majority of these stores, I don't even remember existing. Others, I remember very well. I mourned a little when Hollywood Video went under. Some of those mall brands were staples of my teenage years in the 80s, like Chess King, Suncoast, and others that as far as I know only existed in malls, but seemed to be in every mall. Now, malls themselves are shutting down across the country.
I LOVED Steve and Barry's! They had great quality, super cheap jeans and every college shirt you could ever want!!!
No radioshack, kb toys anymore either
Those were in the first list.
Had a Suncoast in the Westroads Mall in Omaha, NE but it closed about 3 months ago. I liked the place, but the prices were way too high. Hastings is the store I truly miss.
I used to lose time in Hastings stores starting when I was in college.
@davecomstock6209 loved the place and you're not kidding, I'm sure I spent countless days worth of time in there. Between looking at magazines, going through the movies, cds, books, video games, toys, etc. , they had it all.
Modell's was featured on the CBS show Undercover Boss, but 2 years later they would go out of business
before starting the list: Stores I never see any more even if they are still around
1. Jamesway
2.Rickles
4. Toys R Us
5. Block Buster
6. Hollywood Video
7. Suncoast
8. Kmart
9. Roy Rodgers
10. Funco Land
11. Electronics Bootique
12 KB Toys
13 Sears
14 Radio Shack
15 Curit City
16 Bradly's
17 Crazy Ed's
18 genardies
19 7-11
20 Jesters Playhouse
21 Payless
22 Westcoast
23 OP
24 Bonazza
25 Disney Store
26 Build a Bear
27 Air Circus
28 FAO Schwarz
29 Woolworth
30 Five Guys
31 Howard Johnson's
32 AC More
33 B. Dalton books
34 Borders
35 Edmund Scientific? Well I forget its name but it was an educational and learning l toys store near Pizza Hutt
36 Townie Movie Theater
37 Model Railroad store
38 The Australian hat store
39. The Native American store
40 The Calipso
41 etc Lots of smeller comic book and used video game, used DVD, used CD, video rental, book, antique and collectables stores
42 Office deepo
43 Babies R Us
44. Kids R Us
45 Princess dress shop
46. Dakin stuffed animals
47 Zeus
48 Foot Locker
49 Pier One
To the tune of "Electric Avenue":
🎶 We gonna walk down to KMART and buy some shoes. They keep them in a barrel 🎶
Man, I still have things of Kmart, Bath Bed and Beyond and Pier 1 must be treasured!!!!
8:46 GAWD! I miss Suncoast. That place expanded my taste for anime.😢😢😢
GOD, I miss the Disney Store!!! Loved going in there as a kid!!!
Great video! One correction…Federated bought May Company, not the other way around. Macy’s was Federated’s flagship brand. Federated was renamed to Macy’s Corp.
Thanks for letting us know of the error! Much appreciated!
I remember buying Hot Wheels from K-Mart, back when I began to collect Hot Wheels.
I'm surprised I didn't hear Woolworth's in here, B. Dalton or Sports Authority. Here in St. Louis May Department Stores owned high-end Famous-Barr and discount chain Venture, which was very similar to Target.
I believe those have been covered in a past video.
Kmart was my favorite store from my childhood when I saw the the closing sign I so sad the my childhood store is gone:(
Sad our Mall had folded yrs ago and I'll never forget taking my last walk through, although memories fluttered, I will never forget that sadness that suddenly came over me. This place I spent shopping and meeting friends and all the great times with my nana, soon to be demolished within minutes. America, I seen and enjoyed its growth, now days this country just keeps falling and I don't see it getting back up! I hate this Millennium generation.. Circle of life isn't pleasurable!
Many of these stores made many of the same mistakes.. which are not a surprise at all.
Waldonbooks and B. Dalton introduced me to Dungeons & Dragons... and I will never forget them for that.
Suncoast Motion Picture Company is down to three stores. The Omaha, Nebraska location closed as of May of this year.
Kmart was my childhood, where I would end up going there like every week until age 8 or 9 in 2013, still occasionally going until 2016 when it closed, Such a happy memory!
Whatever the store you miss....it's the memories and anything your still have that matters. But still 💔😢
Many of us also miss local shops, that never were national, old family businesses, some of them little department stores. Again 💔😢
I worked at Loehmanns in Philly for a few years. Had some memories in that place. Got some good stuff from there too.
I miss the Virgin Megastore. I used to go to the one at Union Square, NYC. Great place to discover new music.
I worked at a Movie Gallery in 2002, at that time they had started to offer DVD rentals along with the regular VHS. I had been going to that store for many years already, back when it was a Front Row Video. Along with Home Vision and Sounds Easy, all three were bought up by the MG company. Like this video said, they went under in 2010. And then so did Blockbuster in 2013!
I forgot about Walden books and Suncoast, if I remember right Suncoast was always over priced.
I used to love going to Kmart when I was a kid because it was the only store that was close by that had Dragon Ball Z or Godzilla toys
My husband misses Suncoast Videos cuz they had an awesome selection of Anime.
Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! In Canada, there was a big electronics retailer giant named Future Shop (1982 - 2015).
Loved the Discovery Channel Store. And Pier One.
Kmart still don't exist anymore and yet we still don't miss it
I remember knowing that Kmart was closing I went to the Kmart near my home and start crying as i wonder around the empty stalls 😢💔 it used to be my auntie's favorite store and she dies 5 years ago before Kmart closed...
I didn’t know Crazy Eddie’s was a real store! I had always just assumed that commercial was made for Splash😂😅😅
Sadly it seems every year for the past 5 years, we see retailers going out of business
The thumbnail looks like the Kmart I used to work for.
I really miss Suncoast, it was my favorite store as a kid. Hopefully I can make it to one of the last locations before they close. I also really miss Movie Gallery and Family Video. I remember when they were competing with each other across the street in my hometown and I spent a lot of time in both.
13:49 AYO! I know that shopping center! I used to live in that town and my old work place was right behind it
I Remember Suncoast, i bought lots of vhs tapes there, they were cheaper than Disney store. It was located in Denver. I remember Mega Play Store too in Denver. Do you know what happened to this store? Thanks for Sharing. I really miss Sears. ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊
9:35 it’s 3 suncoat store left 1 in Beaumont, Texas where I live. 2. Omaha, Nebraska and 3. Jacksonville, North Carolina
I had a Hollywood video within walking distance of where i live , i loved walking over to rent movies on the weekend
some of these may be a little more NYC metro area centric, but they were huge and are now gone: The Wiz, Funco Land, Software Etc, Babbages, Incredible Universe, Computer City, J&R Music World, Electronics Boutique, B Dalton, TSS, Sterns, A&S, Hollywood Video, Disney Store, Hermans Sporting Goods, Caldor, Alexanders, Sears, and Petland Discounts
I worked at movie gallery for a short time in 2004, was fun and became very good friends with the assistant manager
I was actually living next to one of the pier one imports in Hollywood we left Hollywood in 2019 and when we came back it was closed down and gone
I remember going to this indoor amusement pizza park called jeepers! those were the days!
Loved the Crazy Eddie commercials as a kid in the 70s, never knew he was a crook and conman, wow!!!! And I always loved going into Walden Books at the mall or B. Dalton or any book store actually, miss it a lot. I remember a lot of these stores from the mall. Shame so many are gone now.
I still shed a tear when passing by the nalon salon that use to be our Movie Gallery 😭😄
The WB Store I remember getting my very first wallet from there.
I am glad to see Kmart in here. I am glad the clothing stores of here are gone. It's a list apart from the other video of 20 stores gone for good now.
The one's i miss the most are circuit city & kmart, they were awesome.
2010 was actually the year that Isabella, my daughter, was born, so it was sad to see that a productive store 🏬 would close down in her birth year!
Ahhh I remember Libby Lu my friends had birthday parties there!
Also there’s still a Bed Bath and Beyond in my stated nearish where I live
Yes, but I'm willing to bet it's closing. With everything on clearance. Some stores just closed earlier than others.
I’ve only been to Club Libby Lu once when it was at the Mall Of America in Bloomington MN for my friend Beth Hidy’s 10th birthday party
90s kid here and I gotta say I only remember, The Limited, BB&B, and of course K Mart.
My dad and I mourned Steve & Barry's like they were family 😂❤
Apologies if someone already commented on this, but Kresge is pronounced with the “ge” rhyming with “key.”
Being older than dirt, I remember going to Kresge’s with my grandmother as a kid and it was around through my youth. I miss the old days….
One store that closed forever in America around the states was the "Disney Store" due to the pandemic, it was closed forever but also still active to online
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