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In late 1993, the company announced bankruptcy reorganization, closing 50 stores between 1993 and 1994, [58] and the chain announced the liquidation of its remaining 114 stores by the end of the decade, ceasing operations in 2000. [59]
On February 6, 2020, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close dozens of stores nationwide. The store closed in April 2020. [23] The mall closed almost all stores during the COVID-19 pandemic starting in mid-March 2020, with the exception of Walmart. [24] Hilltop Mall
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
The first phase of the mall, featuring Bigg's and approximately 20 other stores, opened on July 11, 1988. A month prior to this, Higbee's withdrew from the project after being purchased by a joint venture of Dillard's and Edward J. DeBartolo Sr. [8] As a result, B. Altman was relocated from its originally planned store to the space vacated by Higbee's, thus leaving a vacant anchor store and ...
The chain filed for its second bankruptcy and liquidation on August 7, 2019, [13] closing the remaining 54 stores [14] with plans to auction its intellectual property. [15] ALDO filed for bankruptcy on May 7, 2020, citing repercussions related to the COVID-19 pandemic as to why. [16] The shoe chain emerged from bankruptcy two years later. [17]
In 1988, Emporium acquired a J.C. Penney store in Nampa, Idaho, at the Karcher Mall. The Chico store opened at Chico Mall in 1988, [6] and was the only Emporium in California. That store was called "Troutman's", due to a trademark dispute with Emporium in California (Emporium-Capwell at the time of the Troutman's store's opening). [7]
The Emporium store later became a second Bon Marché before both Bon Marché stores were re-branded as Macy's. In 2012, mall management removed the food court and replaced it with a TJ Maxx. [6] On October 16, 2014, it was announced that Sears would be closing in January 2015. [7] JCPenney followed suit in 2018. [8]
Guitar Center was founded in Hollywood in 1959 by Wayne Mitchell as The Organ Center, a retailer of electronic organs for home and church use. In 1964, after a supplier required him to carry Vox guitar amplifiers, to continue receiving organs, Mitchell added the amplifiers to his inventory and renamed the store The Vox Center, leveraging the Beatles association with the Vox brand.