http://www.labelscar.com News and Views of Malls, Shopping Centers, and Retail Chains Past and Present Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:22:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.labelscar.com/about-labelscarcom-and-its-authors#comment-97781 Dead Malls: Suburban Planning Nightmare? - Building Place Tue, 26 May 2009 17:32:23 +0000 http://www.labelscar.com/?page_id=3#comment-97781 [...] sad!” wrote Edith Schilla, 45 years old, of Independence, Ohio, in an April 3 posting on Labelscar.com following her visit to a Sears liquidation sale at the Randall Park Mall in North Randall, Ohio. [...] [...] sad!” wrote Edith Schilla, 45 years old, of Independence, Ohio, in an April 3 posting on Labelscar.com following her visit to a Sears liquidation sale at the Randall Park Mall in North Randall, Ohio. [...]

]]> http://www.labelscar.com/about-labelscarcom-and-its-authors#comment-36544 Retail Graveyard « Off The Shelf Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:00:03 +0000 http://www.labelscar.com/?page_id=3#comment-36544 [...] The retail landscape is littered with the memories of fallen storefronts. Exterior walls often bear fading labelscars, the residue of old signage ripped from the facade when the place went out of business. Some stores went out of business because of pressure from the giant Wal-Mart, while others were either gobbled up by conglomerates and rebranded (like Field’s becoming Macy’s), or simply expired for other reasons. [...] [...] The retail landscape is littered with the memories of fallen storefronts. Exterior walls often bear fading labelscars, the residue of old signage ripped from the facade when the place went out of business. Some stores went out of business because of pressure from the giant Wal-Mart, while others were either gobbled up by conglomerates and rebranded (like Field’s becoming Macy’s), or simply expired for other reasons. [...]

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