Defunct stores/brands that you miss
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Is there a store that's gone out of business - whether this past year or even 10 years ago - that you desperately miss shopping at? Is there a brand no longer available that you used to swear by? Sha
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Defunct stores/brands that you miss
posted at 4/24/2009 3:53 PM EDT
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Is there a store that's gone out of business - whether this past year or even 10 years ago - that you desperately miss shopping at? Is there a brand no longer available that you used to swear by? Share your memories of stores and brands of yesterday - and yesteryear. |
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Re: Defunct stores/brands that you miss
posted at 4/28/2009 7:08 AM EDT
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Is there a store that's gone out of business - whether this past year or even 10 years ago - that you desperately miss shopping at? Is there a brand no longer available that you used to swear by? Share your memories of stores and brands of yesterday - and yesteryear. Posted by BDCBusinessStaff Lechmere Sales, Cambridge MA Bargain Center, Quincy MA |
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Re: Defunct stores/brands that you miss
posted at 4/28/2009 10:14 AM EDT
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Well, this doesn't qualify as a store closing or brand evaporation, but it made me think about how I have desperately missed the French fries from McDonald's that they cooked in animal fat. You could smell those babies for miles, and you just had to stop for them. Now, they're soft and tasteless. It's not like they're health food now for pity's sake - they are FRENCH FRIES. If you want a decadant treat, may as well be the real thing, right? I can't remember what year they changed them, but it was a tragedy...sometime in the 80s, I think. |
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Re: Defunct stores/brands that you miss
posted at 4/28/2009 11:00 AM EDT
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I miss Lechmere's, and Bradlee's, but most of all I miss Filene's. They were so much better than Macy's. I used to shop in Chestnut Hill, but Bloomingdale's just does not cut it for me, and neither does Macy's. I will miss the super Filene's Basement store in Boston where I used to get my husband's and my son's suits with name brands at great prices. The salesmen there were so helpful. And we all know that the other Basement stores are good, but not like the original basement downtown, with the automatic markdowns. |
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Re: Defunct stores/brands that you miss
posted at 4/28/2009 2:21 PM EDT
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Steve's Ice Cream. Whatever happened to them? They expanded from a single Davis Square store to a regional chain, then a national one, then suddenly they were all gone. The very last one I knew of, at Quincy Market, changed its name to Sprinkles a couple years ago. Bailey's Ice Cream, with those lovely deep metal cups and real silverware. Brigham's isn't entirely dead but they are no longer nearly as ubiquitous as they once were -- locations in Central, Harvard, Porter, and Davis squares are all gone. |
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Re: Defunct stores/brands that you miss
posted at 4/28/2009 2:27 PM EDT
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Lechmere, as already mentioned by many other folks. Filene's Basement, as already mentioned by other folks. Tower Records. WordsWorth Books in Harvard Square. Waterstone's Bookstore. Avenue Victor Hugo Bookstore. 100 Flowers Bookstore (1970s, Central Square, Cambridge) President's Choice store brand products at the old Star Market, before they merged with Shaw's. I hope we don't have to add The Boston Globe to this list on Friday. |
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Re: Defunct stores/brands that you miss
posted at 4/28/2009 3:19 PM EDT
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Moxie. Technically it still exists, but if you are old enough to have tasted it before it was reformulated you know it's nothing like the original. An acquired taste to be sure, but truly unique. |
