SkyMall Lands in Bankruptcy as In-Flight Shopping Habits Change

[Renew Deal]

Source: Businessweek

SkyMall, the in-flight catalog company whose offerings include pedal laptop desks and automated ball-launchers for dogs, filed for bankruptcy citing a crowded, competitive retail marketplace.

Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2015-01-23/skymall-lands-in-bankruptcy-as-in-flight-shopping-habits-change

[on point]

1. Corps sell all the same goods worldwide, plus Internet. What's the point?

[jberryhill]

2. This will devastate the Yeti sculpture industry

[shenmue]

3. I'll miss them

It made for fun reading, even though I never bought anything from them.

[Richard D]

4. Me too

It always added an element of weird to the flying experience

[Hoppy]

5. I'm surprised anyone ever bought anything from those catalogs.

[Munificence]

10. You've

obviously never needed to fly to your MIL's to celebrate her birthday part!

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

6. Frontgate, Toscano, Grandin Road... Skymall they don't need you anymore. n/t.

[Skittles]

7. aw man

I LOVE leafing through SkyMall

[petronius]

8. That's too bad, it always provided a few minutes of giggles. But it seems to me

that in-flight magazines have improved markedly over the past few years, so the loss is made up. And books/games/movies are ever more portable...

[Blue_Tires]

9. lalz

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