Life After Liquidation: Why Some Brands Thrive After Closing Shop And Others Don’t
Oct 19, 2020
What’s in a name? Or maybe the question today is: How many dollars are in a name? For Modell’s Sporting Goods, or Pier 1, or Bealls, and scores of their peers, their names stand for decades of retailing history and customer relationships. Thousands of memories of being in stores scattered through time and demographics. A name is a reputation. It can be tinged with nostalgia for an entire moment in commercial and social history. The Toys R Us, FAO Schwarz or Blockbuster brands can call up childhood memories for large swaths of entire generations. Read more at Retail Dive.
