What large businesses have closed down or pulled out of your town?

[norml]

We used to have K-Mart in Lincoln Nebraska, but no longer.

[keopeli]

1. Can you say BOEING?

That's right. Boeing merged with Lockheed-Martin in a sort of coup, and those greedy bastards pulled up shop and moved to Chicago. Boeing started in Seattle and was here for the entire 20th Century, but no more.

[Gemini Cat]

2. Target is one.

K-Mart is floundering on the west side and at least one super-markett is gone from the east side. In between, our lovely downtown is vitually dead.

The super wal-mart is doing swimmingly well, of course.

I hate wal-mart. The last time I was in one was in 97. That was enough for me.

[LizW]

3. K-Mart and I hear

Galyan's (sporting goods) is going.

We haven't had so many big stores leaving, but lots of the existing big box stores moved to a newer, shinier shopping center and left some of the older centers practically empty. Also, there are two small strip malls I pass on the way in to town that are still practically empty after being built months ago.

Ooh, and I forgot about supermarkets. A big Winn Dixie right by the Interstate closed, and there's another store that has been empty since DelChamps left several years ago. Super WalMart was responsible for killing those, and no one wants to move into those buildings.

[screwfacecapone]

4. Kent and akron ohio

In kent, k-mart and dennys have closed down, and in akron, denny's is no more, as well as any business on roming road except fast food joints.

[EC]

5. Snap On Tools

is closing...Case will be next (tractors)...Motorola keeps laying off...Baxter Labs laid off allot of people...I heard Nestle's is having problems...

[norml]

6. Where is that?

It sounds like you have a lot of things closing.

[HEyHEY]

7. Johnnyboy's Dildo factory

YEah...when the dildo factory left town.... it was a sad day