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Walden Book Company, Inc., doing business as Waldenbooks, was an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain and a subsidiary of Borders Group. The chain also ran a video game and software chain under the name Waldensoftware, as well as a children's educational toy chain under Walden Kids.
Borders Group, Inc. was an American multinational book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.In its final year, the company employed about 19,500 people throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores.
B. Dalton had stores in 43 of 50 states in 1978, and was second to Waldenbooks (then the U.S.'s largest bookstore) in store numbers, but posted higher profits than its rival. [3] [4] A flagship store opened in Manhattan in December 1978, [3] and between 1983 and 1986, the chain revived the Pickwick name as a discount bookstore.
Though this stationery chain still has a modest online presence, all of its more than 250 physical locations closed in early 2020 after parent company Schurman Retail Group filed for bankruptcy ...
Sports Authority. A.k.a. the place where you bought your very expensive soccer cleats that you wore approximately three times before dramatically quitting the team.
acquired by Waldenbooks and merged with Borders; defunct 2011 Crown Books United States: defunct 2001 Encore Books United States: defunct 1999 Family Christian Stores United States: physical stores closed in 2017; online retailer since 2019 Hastings Entertainment United States: defunct 2016 Kroch's and Brentano's United States
When the mall opened in 1983, the mall featured two bookstores that remained for years: B Dalton Bookseller and Waldenbooks. But like record stores and video game arcades, those disappeared to ...
Waldenbooks was a chain consisting primarily of shopping-mall–based book stores which was acquired in 1984. In 1994, Kmart chain Borders merged with Waldenbooks to form Borders-Walden Group, which was sold in 1995 (the company was subsequently renamed Borders Group, and went out of business in 2011 due to bankruptcy).