Caldor, Zayre, Ames.

[RiffRandell]

When Ames bought out Zayre, we called it Zaymes.

Anyone remember these stores?

[bicentennial_baby]

1. I remember Caldor and Ames

Yep

[yellowdogintexas]

2. Zayre I remember, and I went to Caldor in Conn when I visited my sister

Venture was another one of those that went by the wayside.

[femmocrat]

3. I remember Zayre and Ames.

Ames just closed a couple of years ago. The ones here used to be Murphy's Marts.

I never heard of Caldor.

[Frank Cannon]

4. I always thought Caldor sounded like a city on the planet Krypton

I remember in the early '90s when Caldor stirred up controversy by refusing to sell Howard Stern's book Private Parts, while it was at the top of the best sellers list.

[Redstone]

5. In New England, we have the perfect "A-B-C" example of Wal-Mart's destructiveness:

Ames. Bradlee's. Caldor.

All New England-based chains. All gone, thanks to Wal-Mart.

I'll never forgive those fuckers, $4.00 prescriptions or not. I never thought much of Caldor, but Mrs R and I really liked Bradlee's, and I grew up with the idea of a visit to Ames being a real treat, because it was the only department store within 50 miles of the village where we lived.

(Yeah, there was a J.J. Newberry's a bit closer, but a 5&10 didn't have the same magic for a kid as did Ames, which had an actual TOY DEPARTMENT.)

Redstone

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

6. We had Zayre Shoppers' City

here in Minny back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Haven't heard that name in a while!

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

7. I remember those stores.

Used to go there often with my family in the 80s.

[Bombero1956]

8. I remember

J.M. Fields here in the Northeast. They were replaced by K-Mart when Fields went belly up. I also remember a Topps department store as well as W.T. Grant. Who here remembers Two Guys.

[AlCzervik]

9. i bought my first ever walkman at Bradlee's at the Meadow glen mall in Meffa.

fuck i'm old.

[Bombero1956]

10. according to Wiki

Zayres is still in business today. The company we knew as Zayres is now known as BJ"s Wholesale club and T J Maxx. The corporation is now TJX.

[Kat45]

11. I remember them all. As well as Bradlees, Turnstyle, Ann & Hope.

And you could even find decent clothes, particularly jeans, in Bradlees.