COMMENTS By. Stock price falls in heavy trading", "Takeover of ailing Trak Auto shops OK'd", "Advance Auto picks up Trak Auto locations", "Sears Is Selling Its Western Auto Supply Unit", "Dick's Sporting Goods to buy Galyan's for $305 million", "Koenig's Next Ohio chain to go under: sells 27 of 40 stores to Woolworth", "Catalog-showroom chain closes last stores", "Best Products To Shut 81 Stores, Lay Off 4,500 The Outlets In Cherry Hill And Delco Will Be Closed. Others changed names and some existed for only a short time. Articles about department stores in the United States whose nameplates are no longer active, i.e., the company was merged or dissolved and its brand retired. . Department store chain Mervyn's started in California in 1949, and by 2006, had 189 locations in 10 states, mostly in the West. SHARE TWEET Created with Sketch. 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It Faced Tough Competition", "Lionel's chugs toward Chapter 11 bankruptcy was no fun", "The Parent Of Kiddie City Files Chapter 11 Petition", "Lionel Switches From Trains to Retail Stores", "Chasing Dreams And Nightmares; Zany Brainy Buying Noodle Kidoodle, Rival Toy Chain", "FAO Schwarz owner to again enter Chapter 11", "7 Stores Of G.E.M. Hecht's, converted to Macy's 2006. . Studio Stores to Close: Owner AOL Time Warner fails to find a buyer for the ailing chain", "Perry Drug Stores Proposes To Acquire 12 A.L. (F.W. Jan 31, 2013 - Explore Julie George's board "Defunct Department Stores" on Pinterest. Many closed, while others were sold or merged with other department stores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_retailers_of_the_United_States 11 defunct New England department stores. 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Other local department stores of the past also included the Aurora Department Store (1938-1960s), located at the junction of North Bridge Road and High Street, and Vashi’s Department Store (1960s-1973), a department store at Raffles Place’s D’Almeida Street during the sixties. 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Simpsons - department store chain (AKA Simpson's Sears and Sears Roebuck) Steinberg's - grocery store chain After expanding to multiple locations, Hudson’s was eventually rebranded as … The following is a list of the affected stores, including some local and regional stores that earlier had been absorbed into chains that became part of Federated, May, or Macy's. The chain expanded to over 100 locations across the U.S. (including Neptune City, Vineland, Union, Hackensack and North Bergen) but experienced declining sales in the 1970s; Two Guys was defunct by 1982. 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Tags:19th century department stores, B. Altman's, Bed Bath & Beyond, Defunct department stores, Hugh O'Neill, Ladies' Mile, McCreery's, shopping at the turn of the 20th century, Siegel-Cooper Department Store, Simpson-Crawford Company Posted in Chelsea, Defunct department stores, Fashion and shopping, Midtown | 15 Comments » 2 music chain", "Dish Network Acquires Blockbuster For $228 Million In Cash", "Not All Blockbuster Stores Are Closing: Al Lewis Says the Chain Didn't Reinvent Itself and Neglected Its Stores", "Borders Forced to Liquidate, Close All Stores", "Trans World finds Camelot in purchase of competitor", "No. 18 Stores That Anyone Who Grew Up In St. Louis Will Undoubtedly Remember. This was a separate store, with lower prices, simpler decor, and was almost always located in the basement of the main, downtown store (Maison Blanche, for instance, had an annex for the budget operation). Gayfer's — which later dropped the apostrophe in a rebranding — operated a department-store chain … : Departed Stores : Hinshaw's in Arcadia Is Latest Retailer to Be Squeezed Out", "Chain Acquires Tacoma Store; B.F. Schlesinger & Sons Buy Department Firm; Rhodes Bros. Inc., Operated for Thirty Years Local Bankers Will Effect New Financing", "Store Chain Reorganized: Schlesinger Units In West to Operate Separately", "Kahn's Department Stores Changing Name to Rhodes", "H. 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