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  2. 15 of Your Favorite Companies That Have Gone Out of Business

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    Blockbuster store going out of business. Blockbuster. Year opened: 1985. Year closed: 2013. If you grew up in the '90s, you likely spent many a Friday night searching for the perfect movie at your ...

  3. Blockbuster (retailer) - Wikipedia

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    Blockbuster Video [5] is an American multimedia brand and former rental store chain. The business was founded by David Cook in 1985 as a single home video rental shop, but later became a public store chain featuring video game rentals, DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater. [6] The logo was designed by Lee Dean at the ...

  4. 5 Big Companies That Suddenly Went Out of Business & Why - AOL

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    American Apparel. If you spent any time at all cognizant of advertising in the ’90s or early aughts, you surely remember American Apparel. The business, which peaked with more than 250 stores ...

  5. List of defunct retailers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Merry-Go-Round – Merry-Go-Round had more than 500 locations during its heyday in the 1980s. It went bankrupt in 1995. Mervyn's – a California-based regional department store founded in 1949. Mervyn's ill-fated expansion out of West Coast markets in the months before a recession sent the company into bankruptcy in 2008.

  6. Video rental shop - Wikipedia

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    A display case of DVDs in a former Blockbuster video rental store. A video rental shop / store is a physical retail business that rents home videos such as movies, prerecorded TV shows, video game discs and other media content. Typically, a rental shop conducts business with customers under conditions and terms agreed upon in a rental agreement ...

  7. Big-Name Stores That Have Closed in the Last 30 Years - AOL

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    The pandemic forced the chain to pause going-out-of-business sales at its more than 150 stores, but they eventually resumed in the summer of 2020. Vaughn J./Yelp Art Van Furniture

  8. Circuit City - Wikipedia

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    Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., was an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s. [2] [3] After multiple purchases and a successful run ...

  9. Redbox - Wikipedia

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    Redbox Entertainment. Redbox Entertainment is a content acquisition and production division of Redbox. On April 23, 2019, Redbox acquired the indie film Benjamin for an exclusive 90-day release period via its kiosks and on demand service as a Redbox Original. [58] In October 2019, Redbox formed its film and TV series acquisition division ...