When Two Guys (82) went BK, i was in college and worked for a small company that purchased all of the store fixtures after TG had vacated the buildings. We worked on the east Brunswick and Middletown stores. The amount of loose merchandise we found behind shelves, buried in corners of the stock rooms was unreal.
It was really strange and fun having those stores to ourselves. We also did a few Service Merchandise Store that closed (finally shut down in 02). SM was a unique concept, call it Amazaon before the internet. You would go into the store, look in the catalogue find what you wanted, fill out a form, go to the counter, and they would bring it from a stock room. Ultimatley Amazon, Walmart killled this type of store as well.
But yeah, the evolution and darwinian effect on Retail is alway fascinating, some day Home Depot could meet that fate if they keep up the shoddy maintenance and approach to merchandising, give me Lowes any day.
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