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In memoriam: The brands we lost in the 2010s
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1736" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/12/20992264/blockbuster-borders-american-apparel-brand-obituaries" target="_blank"><strong>In memoriam: The brands we lost in the 2010s - VOX</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>RIP Blockbuster, Borders, and so many more. </strong></p><p></p><p>The 2010s were a decade of extreme retail innovation. Instagrammy direct-to-consumer companies like Warby Parker and Everlane sprang up seemingly overnight; hulking businesses like Amazon permeated what felt like every aspect of our shopping lives.</p><p></p><p>There’s a cost, of course, to such breakneck change, and that came in the form of what’s been called the “<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/1/18285928/death-of-retail-shopping-bankruptcy-business-sears-toys-r-us" target="_blank">retail apocalypse</a>.” Not just the result of these new upstarts and consolidated power (private equity certainly did its part); the death of many traditional retail chains left hundreds of thousands without jobs, and the shuttering of countless storefronts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1736, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/12/20992264/blockbuster-borders-american-apparel-brand-obituaries'][B]In memoriam: The brands we lost in the 2010s - VOX[/B][/URL] [B] RIP Blockbuster, Borders, and so many more. [/B] The 2010s were a decade of extreme retail innovation. Instagrammy direct-to-consumer companies like Warby Parker and Everlane sprang up seemingly overnight; hulking businesses like Amazon permeated what felt like every aspect of our shopping lives. There’s a cost, of course, to such breakneck change, and that came in the form of what’s been called the “[URL='https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/1/18285928/death-of-retail-shopping-bankruptcy-business-sears-toys-r-us']retail apocalypse[/URL].” Not just the result of these new upstarts and consolidated power (private equity certainly did its part); the death of many traditional retail chains left hundreds of thousands without jobs, and the shuttering of countless storefronts. [/QUOTE]
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