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10 Brands That May Disappear in 2011

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-bud...appear-in-2011

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24/7 Wall St. has created a new list of brands that may disappear, which includes Readers Digest, Kia Motors, Dollar Thrifty (NYSE: DTG - News), Zale (NYSE: ZLC - News), Blockbuster (BLOKA.PK - News), T-Mobile, BP Plc (NYSE: BP - News), RadioShack (NYSE: RSH - News), Merrill Lynch and Moody's (NYSE: MCO - News).
24/7 Wall St. regularly compiles a report of brands that are likely to disappear in the near-term. Last April, and again in December, we published our findings. Usually, it would take a full year before such a list could be compiled again. However, the current economic climate has accelerated this process and a majority of the brands on the first two lists are either gone, have been acquired, or have filed for bankruptcy.
With a number of the brands on the December list either gone or on a short-term path to extinction, 24/7 Wall St. has put together the latest version of the Ten Brands That Will Disappear. To qualify, we expect that brand to be gone by the end of 2011, or for its parent to be sold or go into Chapter 11.

Last time I read this I think Blockbuster, RadioShack, and Kia were still on it.

I don't want my phone company to die. :(

Yeah i peeped this. Man looks like i'm gonna be going back to Verizon... :(

I guess I didn't realize T-Mobile was doing that poorly...

I was getting a haircut the first weekend after I moved to PHX, and a group of women were getting pedis behind me. I couldn't help overhearing their conversation. Apparently one of them worked for Blockbuster. She went on and on about what a great company Blockbuster was. She thought that they'd never go out of business because they sold everything! I just sat there chuckling to myself thinking she'd be looking for a new job within a year.

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Originally Posted by AOII Angel (Post 1952740)

I just sat there chuckling to myself thinking she'd be looking for a new job within a year.

:(

Why would you find it funny that someone might be losing their job in this economy? Blockbuster has a lot of retail stores across the country, if they were all to close it would add a couple thousand people to the list of unemployed.

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Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle (Post 1952751)

Merrill Lynch? wow.

Since they were bought by Bank of America, supposedly they will become Bank of America Wealth Management Group or something like that. They are not going out of business, just getting a name change and a corporate makeover.

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Originally Posted by PiKA2001 (Post 1952745)

i was wondering the same thing....

Where do you get pedis that a blockbuster employee also does? I hope you have found a better place and not one of those Asian owned nail salons!

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Originally Posted by calilicious (Post 1952767)

Where do you get pedis that a blockbuster employee also does? I hope you have found a better place and not one of those Asian owned nail salons!

What's the matter, Earp? Scared to post under your own name?

Unfortunately Netflix and RedBox have almost massacred Blockbuster. The same will happen eventually for other things as well, especially since the Internet is killing everything, TV/Music.

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Originally Posted by calilicious (Post 1952767)

Where do you get pedis that a blockbuster employee also does? I hope you have found a better place and not one of those Asian owned nail salons!

May fungus find its way under your nails.

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Originally Posted by Drolefille (Post 1952769)

What's the matter, Earp? Scared to post under your own name?

Ohhhhh this is Earp? I was wondering why all the posts were so hostile and foolish.

T-Mobile? Whaaaat? No wonder I had to pay to get a replacement phone. Sheesh. lol.

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Originally Posted by preciousjeni (Post 1952788)

May fungus find its way under your nails.

Ohhhhh this is Earp? I was wondering why all the posts were so hostile and foolish.

I am assuming, but I believe it to be true and since it's a perp, might as well.

He makes his forum look REALLY good, doesn't he.

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Originally Posted by epchick (Post 1952791)

T-Mobile? Whaaaat? No wonder I had to pay to get a replacement phone. Sheesh. lol.

Seriously!!! lol

I knew T-Mobile was number 4, but I didn't think it mattered that much. I also thought that their presence was growing, not dwindling.

But I guess it'd be cool if T-Mo stayed alive and absorbed Virgin, though... didn't really know VM still existed until I saw them branded all over Lady Gaga's Telephone music video.