Mervyn's

My head can't help but think of the old Mervyn's ads showing an eager shopper standing outside the store chanting, "Open, open, open."

Pamela Tom: Bagging Black Friday and Burning the Midnight Oil Pamela Tom 2011

The 1.2-million-square-foot mall, once home to a Macy's, Trail Dust Steak House and Mervyn's, has seen its sales-tax generation plummet in recent years, to $1.5 million last year from $8.5 million in 2000, city officials say.

Malls Face Surge in Vacancies Kris Hudson 2011

The roughly 62,000-square-foot new gym, which will include a pool, is slated to bring life to a property shuttered since Mervyn's went dark more than two years ago.

Nomura to Move to New York's Midtown 2011

Those ads disturbed me then and clearly didn't help Mervyn's that later went out of business ... and this year's even earlier move to begin the madness takes the cake as a full frontal assault by corporate America eager to boost profits by racking up a few more hours of sales.

Pamela Tom: Bagging Black Friday and Burning the Midnight Oil Pamela Tom 2011

Bernardino in a city called Monrovia, wedged inside a shopping center buttressed by "anchor" tenants Toys R Us and Mervyn's.

Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull 2010

Since 2008, it has signed leases on space in a half-dozen locations formerly occupied by Circuit City Stores Inc. and two locations formerly occupied by Mervyn's LLC department stores.

Nomura to Move to New York's Midtown 2011

Since 2008, it has signed leases on space in a half-dozen locations formerly occupied by Circuit City Stores Inc. and two locations formerly occupied by Mervyn's LLC department stores.

Nomura to Move to New York's Midtown 2011

Mr. Johnson may not have been a CEO previously, but he is a retail veteran of long stints at department store chains Mervyn's and Target Corp. before Apple.

Penney's New Boss to Split Duties With Outgoing CEO Elizabeth Holmes 2011

The roughly 62,000-square-foot new gym, which will include a pool, is slated to bring life to a property shuttered since Mervyn's went dark more than two years ago.

Nomura to Move to New York's Midtown 2011

We have witnessed the weeding out process that inevitably accompanies difficult economic times, with retail companies like Circuit City, Mervyn's, Linens 'n Things, and Fortunoff not just filing for bankruptcy, but undertaking complete liquidation.

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