The End of an Era: Discontinued products, services, and defunct companies

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

And the Next Cancelled Show is...

Spirit Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. They've been struggling for a while. Someone will buy them, I'm sure. Poor bastards got shot at flying into Haiti last week.

www.trekbbs.com

Kind of random given this is supposed to be tv and movie cancellations. Some of these should probably be in thread in Misc.

Ah, here we go. This thread is to discuss businesses going out of business, products that are not being sold/made anymore, and services that are being ended.

This Twitter page might be of interest, too.

 

[Avro Arrow]

And the Next Cancelled Show is...

Spirit Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. They've been struggling for a while. Someone will buy them, I'm sure. Poor bastards got shot at flying into Haiti last week.

www.trekbbs.com

Ah, here we go.

This Twitter page might be of interest, too.

Sorry, is this thread just to plug your X account? If not, can you please provide maybe a bit more clarity? All I see is a link to another thread, a quote from another thread, and a link to X. Thank you.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

No, that's not my Twitter account, but it's relevant to the subject of the thread. The quoted post suggested that "And the next cancelled show is" was not the thread for cancelled businesses like Spirit Airlines, so I made a separate thread for that. (like I made one earlier for comic releases, separate from the novel releases)

 

[Avro Arrow]

No, that's not my Twitter account, but it's relevant to the subject of the thread. The quoted post suggested that "And the next cancelled show is" was not the thread for cancelled businesses like Spirit Airlines, so I made a separate thread for that. (like I made one earlier for comic releases, separate from the novel releases)

OK, thank you for the reply. Maybe a little intro paragraph in the OP explaining the purpose of the thread would have been helpful, because it just feels a little ambiguous as it is. But no matter. Carry on.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I added a description.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Stores don’t sell your favorite product anymore. That’s on purpose

I miss Welch's Grape Juice and Ragu pasta sauce. Canada doesn't sell either in stores any more.

I miss Just Right cereal, too.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Ironically, I feel like the bigger the store, the less it sells. I don't think it's my imagination either, because I remember smaller versions of stores carrying a much wider variety of products, before they all became massive stores. Take Canadian Tire for instance. When Target closed in Canada, our local Canadian Tire was quick to move into the bigger space it vacated, and until then we used to rely on it for some very obscure but needed parts, screws or whatever needed to get a job done. But when it moved to the new and bigger space, which became a bit of a concept store for other bigger versions of the chain, we started noticing that what was once easily found at the smaller location was now suddenly not being stocked anymore for whatever reason. Not just a one-time situation, but one we've encountered time and time again.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Larger stores tend to want to serve everybody, providing cultural imported products, specialty healthy items, etc.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

When I was watching Seinfeld the other day, I noticed a box of Triples cereal on the shelf in Jerry's kitchen. I used to love that cereal. I remember they "improved" it not long before they stopped making it. It was less crispy.

Triples (cereal) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Carnation Breakfast Bars.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Trader Joe's used to have a frozen 'Family Size' Mac & Cheese that came with a bread crumb topping that would brown when you cooked it. I loved that entrée, but they discontinued it.​

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I also miss Robin Hood's lemon loaf mix. It came in a muffin mix-type package and was so good.

Peek Freans assorted tea cookies removed the two flavors I liked and replaced them with one I don't.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Larger stores tend to want to serve everybody, providing cultural imported products, specialty healthy items, etc.

But ironically when they do that, they don't end up serving the core clientel that need them, that have always been there for them.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

My father and I shop at several grocery stores to find everything on our list.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I just read that our local Toys R Us is closing at the end of December. Apparently the Canadian operations haven't been doing so hot lately and there might be more closures across the Country.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I just read that our local Toys R Us is closing at the end of December. Apparently the Canadian operations haven't been doing so hot lately and there might be more closures across the Country.

I didn't know that they tried to bring Toys R Us back

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Here in Western Washington we had a couple of restaurant chains that I thought were pretty good - Sea Galley, a casual seafood restaurant, and Flakey Jake's, a build your own burger restaurant.
We also had Pizza Haven, founded in 1958, which was the first dial and delivery pizza chain in the US.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I didn't know that they tried to bring Toys R Us back

Canadian Toys R Us never actually went away. (Although I guess that may be changing soon if they're not doing that great?)

 

[Kor]

Here in Western Washington we had a couple of restaurant chains that I thought were pretty good - Sea Galley, a casual seafood restaurant, and Flakey Jake's, a build your own burger restaurant.
We also had Pizza Haven, founded in 1958, which was the first dial and delivery pizza chain in the US.

The last remaining Sea Galley, in the Yakima area, closed just last year. Then the building burned down.

Kor

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I've been missing at least one or two companies or services since 2009. I probably miss Suncoast Video most of all.