Thursday, March 30, 2023

WatchMojo's 'Top 20 Stores That Don't Exist Anymore' for Throwback Thursday, tales of the Retail Apocalypse

Happy Throwback Thursday! I'm observing today by sharing WatchMojo's Top 20 Stores That Don't Exist Anymore.

These stores are staples of history, but they sadly don't exist anymore. For this list, we’ll be looking at retail outlets that were once the pinnacle of your shopping experience, and are now a faded memory. Our countdown includes Borders, Radio Shack, KB Toys, Sharper Image, and more! Have you ever shopped at one of these places? Let us know in the comments...
Readers who have been following my tales of the Retail Apocalypse should recognize a lot of the defunct chains mentioned in this video, which lives up to my description of the channel's product as "high-quality, well-researched clickbait that is worth sharing." I hope my readers enjoyed this trip back through memory lane as much as I did and learned something as well.

Follow over the jump for the top posts about the Retail Apocalypse during the twelfth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.


The most read entry about failing brick-and-mortar chains last year was 'Bankrupt - JCPenney' by Bright Sun Films, a tale of the Retail Apocalypse posted December 3, 2022. I shared this at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page the day I wrote it, earning 930 default and 1,200 raw page views by New Year's Eve 2022, placing it third for the month according to default page views and second according to raw page views. Those numbers placed it 17th according to default page views, 24th overall by raw page views and 18th by raw page views among all entries posted during calendar year 2022. It continued to gain page views, ending the blogging year with ~1,200 default and 1,231 raw page views, ranking the entry ninth by default page views, 22nd overall by raw page views, and 13th by raw page views among entries posted during the twelfth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.


(24/33). Jon Perr shared Retail Archaeology thinks 'The End Is Near' for Sears and Kmart, a tale of the Retail Apocalypse, posted March 23, 2022, at Crooks and Liars during March 2022. That helped attract 538 default and 568 raw page views during March 2022, enough to place it fourth overall by default and raw page views that month and third among entries posted during March 2022. I shared the link the next month at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page, earning another 238 default and 366 raw page views, resulting in the entry ranking 20th overall by default and raw page views during April 2022. After two months, it had a total of 777 default and 933 raw page views. It continued to gain page views, ending 2022 with 972 raw page views, 34th overall for the year and 28th among entries posted during 2022. Page views continued to trickle in, reaching 989 raw page views on March 20, 2023 and ranking 33rd overall and 24th among entries posted during the twelfth year of the blog. Being shared at Crooks and Liars brought in emjayjay, Buzzcook, and Bruce.desertrat to comment on the post, resulting in five comments, tied for second most comments during the blogging year, most comments during March 2022, and most commenters who weren't spammers.

Before I finish this entry, I'm noting that this is a topic that didn't have a retrospective dedicated to it last year. While it's bad news, I enjoyed seeing the topic back among my most popular posts after a year's absence.

Previous posts in this series Previous retrospectives about the Retail Apocalypse. Previous retrospectives about comments and likes.
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