28 Nostalgic Companies Gen X Kids Wish Would Make a Comeback

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    r/GenX • 22 hr. ago tuftedear Which now defunct store would you like to see return? Wait, I'm HOW old?! There's so many good ones. But if I had to pick two I'd go with Tower Records and Borders Books.
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    TOWER RECORDS Ⓡ
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    BORDERS BOOKS MUSIC CAFE Sve big
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    Tall Flatworm2589 - Older Than Dirt • 1d ago I could spend all day in a Borders.
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    S2JESSICA • 1d ago radio shack!
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    • sd_glokta • 1d ago Edited 1d ago 1975 I miss Borders. I'll never forget browsing through their new recommendations and sitting down to read an odd novel named Fight Club.
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    countess-petofi • 1d ago Woolworth's. It would really feel like Christmas again if they came back.
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    InfiniteRelation • 1d ago Midwest-specific but, Marshall Field's. Macy's and I miss nice department stores.
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    • positivepinetree 1d ago 1972 Banana Republic in the 1980s, when they sold safari and travel items only. Now they're just a more upscale Gap.
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    Khavi • 1d ago The Nature Company.
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    . Lopsided_Cash8187 • 1d ago Circuit City. Spent a good bit of my teenage dollars in there. Car stereo. Home stereo.
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    Pikersmor 1d ago Not a store but Bennigan's. I miss death by chocolate.
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    Kwyjibo68 • 1d ago Service Merchandise.
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    . pumfr 1d ago Sears like it used to be. Had everything, and stood behind their products. To be clear: not like the Sears in the late 90s/2000s.
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    AdequateEggplant69 • 1d ago One of the best feelings was driving out of the Tower parking lot with whatever new acquisition you'd purchased just CRANKED. (Soundgarden's Superunknown, I'm looking at you.)
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    auntiecoagulent • 1d ago K-Mart!
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    • Kimber80 1d ago Blockbuster
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    . Rich_Explorer8966 • 1d ago Media Play. They had better deals on music and movies than Tower Records. Circuit City was kind of in between. They'd have sales on CDs and movies every once in a while. Also CompUSA.
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    RealClarity9606 . 1d ago Common-Sense Hard-Working GenXer Borders. Even with digital books, I still prefer physical books in many cases and I am at Barnes & Noble at least once a week browsing. I didn't like borders as well as B&N, but I would go somewhat regularly. As for Tower Records, it was a great store when physical media for music was a thing, but unlike physical books, physical media for music is just about completely dead and, very sadly, physical media for movies is becoming more limit
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    knudude • 1d ago If Borders, only when they had Seattle's Best coffee, graphic novel by publisher & still had CD music in stores. Not the late run of just overpriced criterion collections & large format books that had the cute price of $49.99. (IMHO) I am more impartial to Virgin Megastore's. If anything, they had it all: everything from CD's, Movies, books, even had T-shirt's & other small knickknacks. I may just be the only one wishing we still had Virgin Megastores.
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    SilentDrapeRunner11 • 1d ago Natural Wonders and B.Dalton Books ☹ ↑ 14 ⇓ ☐ Reply alto2 1d ago I miss the mall bookstores. They weren't the wonderlands that the big stores were, but it was still great to be able to go browse when you were out for something else and see what unexpected treasures you might stumble on there.
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    Annual_Nobody_7118 . 1d ago Borders, hands down. RadioShack, KB Toys, Specks and Blockbuster. Take your streaming and give me my VCR back.

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