Brands And Companies That Don't Exist Anymore!

Whether it’s that restaurant chain, retail store, car maker, tech company or even airline, many of us development attachments to certain brands and companies over the years that sometimes span an entire lifetime, on today’s episode we will take a look at some of those popular brands and companies that no longer exist along with the legacies they left behind, and why they were so important to some of us.

0:00 Introduction
0:24 Blockbuster
1:40 Radio Shack
2:51 Gateway
4:25 Oldsmobile
6:11 Palm
7:10 Toys R Us
8:30 TWA- Trans World Airlines
9:43 Montgomery Ward
11:23 Sports Authority
12:25 Borders
13:38 Closing

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[RudieObias]

I worked at Borders Books from 2005 until its very end in 2011. If they were still around, I'd probably be a store manager or general manager by now 😅

[Big_Dog]

I have a Toys-R-Us 2 blocks from my house :|

[midwestweirdo]

Blockbuster not buying Netflix is not a blunder by any definition of the word and only people who lack the context of the time think it is. Netflix was a failing DVD by mail service that was losing money by the millions. Streaming didn't exist and wouldn't for another few years in a very limited capacity. If you own a retail chain, would you want to buy a competitor that was hemorrhaging money whose entire business model would mean less foot traffic in your stores and cut into impulse buying?