Stores you wish were still around.

[iGary]

You reminded me of the Super G department stores run by Giant Food, along with the Memco stores... sigh those were the good old days before Wally World....

Giant and Super G is Swedish owned...they own Good Humor, too.

 

[wordmunger]

What I really want is the old Nordstrom's, before it became a status symbol store. It used to be just a great shoe store with excellent service and amazing prices. Even in the early years of expansion it was still very nice -- still great service, and mainly focused on shoes, but with a nice selection of basic clothes at great prices. Now it's a designer store with terrible selection and no attention to basics.

 

[jayb2000]

I miss the old Ben Franklin's, when they had Matchbox cars and model kits to buy and such. Now they are another crap store, err, craft store. 😉

The original Banana Republic (ok, catalogue, not store) was cool, back when they had the Israeli paratroppers bags and cargo pants (back in the early 80's before they were cool) and such. Not the yuppie/euro trash look they have now. Not anything against Europe, its a saying like White Trash, just usually relates to overly tight sweaters, pointy shoes, and wool pants.

 

[Otto Rehhagel]

Funny user name you have...

But didn't he change his name to Otto Rehakles??? 😉

groovebuster

Hahaha

King Otto's reign over Greece may be over. I hope he doesn't leave us for ze Germans. 😉

 

[Roger1]

Anybody remember Zayre's?
How about Piggly Wiggly?
Highland Appliances?

 

[Deefuzz]

Children's Palace
Service Merchandise
Hills
Gold Circle

If memory serves me right we had all of those when I lived in Dayton, OH back in the 80's...don't know if any of those exist anywhere anymore, but I know I haven't seen one since then!

 

[DakotaGuy]

Children's Palace
Service Merchandise
Hills
Gold Circle

If memory serves me right we had all of those when I lived in Dayton, OH back in the 80's...don't know if any of those exist anywhere anymore, but I know I haven't seen one since then!

Service Merchandise lives again on the web.

www.servicemerchandise.com

They offer the same kind of products they used to have in their stores. When they went bankrupt the family that founded the store bought back the name and reopened it on the web. They have some nice stuff in their web store.

Another store that is long gone is Montgomery Ward.

 

[wordmunger]

Service Merchandise lives again on the web.

www.servicemerchandise.com

They offer the same kind of products they used to have in their stores. When they went bankrupt the family that founded the store bought back the name and reopened it on the web. They have some nice stuff in their web store.

...and just look at those prices -- aMAZing! 🙄