“Fun” fact: Bain Capital killed both TRU and KayBee Toys.
1 of the three was killed to make some hedge fund richer. Toys r us would not have died if it hadn’t been shorted in to oblivion.
I never understood circuit city. The local one ran prices 10-20% higher then best buy a few blocks over. You’d only ever go there when best buy ran out of dvd-r’s.
That being said whoever worked in their gaming section and kept updating the demo kiosk with every game now labeled a “hidden gem”… Props because those were always fresh picks.
Odd, it was the other way around where I lived. CC had the best prices while BB was overpriced, and like you said, CC’s gaming section was great.
You can blame BCG and shitty hedge funds for that
Wasn’t that Mitt Romney and Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury? (I forget his name.) But I remember him looking like a Bond villain.
you mean Munchkin?
Stahp I just watched a 2-hour video analysis of liminal spaces I can only get so hauntological
Toys r Us is still going strong in Canada
…What else of ours have you got?
There’s still one Spencer’s gifts left in my city.
We also just recently got papa John’s but I’m too conflicted to try it
I have a teenager. Trust me, Spencer’s are still all over the U.S. As is Hot Topic.
And I hate them both.
Better ingredients, better pizza. Put Papa johns warm melty cheese in your mouth.
Honestly though i don’t mind papa johns pizza
Well I wouldn’t say strong
What’s the one on the bottom right?
Look up on my works ye mighty and despair
I miss Fry’s Electronics Stores
We still have one in Illinois but I’m not sure how it’s still holding on. Used to love going in there. Loads of specialized parts and equipment as well as staff that were super knowledgeable and helpful. But at least we have Microcenter now… Which is like if you took a Fry’s and scaled it down and made it work more like a car dealership 😭😭😭
The one in Burbank, CA was awesome. It was done in a 1950s sci-fi movie theme. The outside was made to look like a UFO crashed into it.
And an Alice in Wonderland themed one in the valley
Last time I went to one (2020), the shelves were 80% empty, and what they had was mostly karaoke machines on consignment sale.
It was super depressing.
I was just gonna say. So many good memories with my dad going to Fry’s. The sole reason i went HARD into techie stuff
Look upon my works and despair.
Like the Pizza Hut turned Bank turned Chinese Food Restaurant turned Fed Ex Pack and Ship
Turned back to pizza hut in a few instances
The giraffe still lives.
There was always a certain ambiance in Circuit City that I found to be appealing. At least on my local one before it closed down. It was like the lights were dimmed way down, but it was still bright enough to see. I guess you would call that “cool temperature” lighting, which is definitely not fashionable anymore. Everything nowadays seems to follow Apple’s store design which is this sterile eggshell white, bathed in neutral or warm temperature lighting. I find it kind of boring, but I understand why they do it that way.
Plus, I loved how instantly recognizable their old stores were. The big red block turned at an angle for an entrance was brilliant imo. They used it a lot in their television commercials and made it look like a plug end or a battery coming down from the sky.
Portugal still has multiple very successful Toys R Us stores, most of them more than 20 years old at this point
I miss my frys electronics and their goofy buildings
At least microcenter will come to my hometown soon
