Talk:List of defunct retailers of the United States

message: Suggestion for someone who's bored to research and add, Gilmore Deptartment Stores, here's just one of a few thousand articles about them.. 
http://www.kpl.gov/collections/localhistory/allabout/businesses/GilmoreBros.aspx  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.119.195 (talk) 15:13, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Heres another one for you researchers out there. There was a small chain that existed in Massachusetts and Connecticut in the late 80s and early 90s called Sound Playground. TV ads during their biggest sale depicted a guy in a courtroom trying to defend charges of overspending during their "Super Sale.", I myself made a parody of that commercial prior to an audio tape movie I made.LReyome254 (talk) 00:24, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: How is this list different than :Category:Defunct retail companies of the United States?  Tuxide 04:38, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not by much, I'd say.  The word "listcruft" comes to mind...  SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:57, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I'm beginning to want to least move it to Wikipedia namespace as a subpage of WP:RETAIL or WP:SHOP.  Categories do not list non-existant articles, and I'm thinking an article request list may be useful for a WikiProject.  Tuxide 05:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't think of that!  If you're going to go that route, give it to WP:RETAIL, since this list is about the shops in the centers, rather than about the shopping centers themselves.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:47, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: Do not rename this from List of defunct retailers of the United States to list of notable defunct retailers of the United States. Content in wikipedia is already presumed notable so adding that to the title is redundant. Non-notable retailers should be removed from the list. Kappa 02:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do not rename 

message: There was a link for Wickes Furniture which, when clicked, returned to this page via a redirect page.  I removed the link for now.  An alternative would have been to delete the redirect page, making it a red link.  
It may be that other links have a similar problem.  SlowJog (talk) 14:38, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Articles 

message: The entry under Music and video stores (records, tapes, books, CDs, DVDs, etc.) for Record World links to the Record World article, which is about Record World magazine. While the magazine is defunct, I don't believe this is the correct linking.
I do remember a Record World retailer, years ago, that operated in at least the greater New York City area. (Their commercials, as I recall, always referred to "Record World, and the record shops at TSS Seedman's". Impressively, they somehow managed to make that mouthful into a memorable jingle!) TSS stood for Times Square Stores, however that article doesn't mention Record World anywhere. Does anyone have an article reference for Record World the NYC metro area store, not the magazine? - FeRD_NYC (talk) 11:29, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Record World entry mislinked 

message: Oh, come on. There's just no need for all those citation needed tags: citations are obviously needed for each redlink, but are not needed for the bluelinks, since the history should be covered in the bluelinked article.  The excess tags should be removed. --Lexein (talk) 04:47, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tag spam 

message: Department stores, while they typically sell a lot of clothing, are not "Clothing, shoes, & specialty stores", they are  "Department and discount stores" and belong in that section. As that section directs to List of defunct department stores of the United States, any department or discount stores belong in that article, not this one. - SummerPhD (talk) 20:17, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine.  Being clear in the deletion reason in the edit summary helps considerably here. --Lexein (talk) 01:12, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I was clear with these the first time I removed them. You restored them. Please read edit summaries before reverting. - SummerPhD (talk) 03:29, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Department stores 

message: Please be sure that all additions to the List of defunct retailers of the United States are verifiable. Any new items added to the article should have inline citations for each claim made, unless the addition is merely a bluelink to an existing article.  Additional claims, beyond the mere appearance of a defunct retailer in this list, should be cited.
As a courtesy to editors who may have added many claims previously, before Wikipedia citation policy is what it is today, some of the existing unsourced claims have been tagged  to allow some time for sources to be added.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 03:36, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations and sources are needed 

message: This company closed its doors in 2009 Bankrupt,
The name and other intellectual property was bought buy
Stage Stores,Houston Texas.
The company rebranded  their  Southern stores to the Goody's name
TPX  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.52.80.120 (talk) 22:56, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goody's Family Clothing 

message: The preface to this list needs some serious revisions - it has multiple unsourced statements (i.e., "U.S. retailers were initially an important part of the local community—such as the corner drugstore or the tool store."), and has several unverifiable, qualitative statements ("Some of the largest brands may not have had as much emotional impact on our culture...") that make it read more like a reflection than an encyclopedic introduction. Nisf (talk) 23:54, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Nisf that the entire preface is much too long and unsourced. A proper preface should not be longer than two or four sentences to summarize what should (and should not) be included in the list to prevent it becoming a catch-all garbage collection. Does any one have a better suggestion for a replacement paragraph? Should we just revert the preface section to edit just before the preface was radically changed in November 2014? (Look at this Diff from November 2014) Unless there are no objections (or have a better worded replacement), I will do just that with in a few days or so. 107.216.165.224 (talk) 00:39, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur with the gist of the previous two posters.  The current summary is too much, and contains unsourced info; needs a total rewrite.  N2e (talk) 01:55, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preface 

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message: Are Mattress Barn and Door Gallery notable enough to be on this list? Ssjhowarthisawesome (talk) 23:56, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  not notable? 

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message: Can someone fill me in as to why this entry keeps getting removed? Toys "R" Us is indeed defunct in the United States as of 2018. I keep having to revert it's removal.  
Hemingray (talk) 02:21, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated removal of Toys "R" Us 

message: I have a major concern with this page. Somebody keeps on adding a list of stores at the top, which are unsorted, and some of which are inaccurate, are already mentioned on the article, or non-existent altogether. This has continued. There is also another thing: The past tense vs. present tense: If the store is gone, it wouldn’t have present tense words: It would say was/were and not is/are. These are two things that I am concerned about with this article. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 22:13, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  A major concern with this page 

message: What, exactly, is the purpose of this article?
Is it, as the title states, a "List of defunct retailers in the United States"?
If so, it is woefully incomplete.  While it is understood that a fully comprehansive list may not be possible, still, there have been retailers in the US since its establishment as a country in 1776, many thousands of which are now defunct.
Or, is the purpose as suggested in the lede:  "Across the United States, a large number of local stores and store chains that started between the 1920s and 1950s have become defunct since the late 1960s."?
If so, some explanation of the criterion posed is in order.  Why only stores that started between the 1920s and the 1950s?  Why not those started in the 1910s or the 1970s?
Why only those that have become defunct since the 1960s?  What of those which became defunct beofre the 1960s?
I could rattle off a list of dozens of retailers from my hometown in upstate NY which became defunct during my lifetime, and which are not on the list.  Every one of these could be verified from advertisements they ran in local newspapers over the years.  They could also be verified from archived corporate registers in their state(s) of location.  Is THIS what is intended for the article?  If so, somebody better get humpin', because you've got a LOT of work to do.
I think a decision needs to be made as to the intended scale of this article.
Perhaps some limitations are in order?  Or, if the best comprehenisveness is what is desired, than maybe what is really needed are 50 separate articles, one for each state, which this one linking to the states.  'cause if you don't do that, you are going to end up with a list that's 50,000 (or more) items long.
74.95.43.253 (talk) 22:17, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  What purpose?