15 Companies That Might Go Bye-Bye

Here's a list from Yahoo Finance about 15 companies that might not make it to the end of 2009 because of the economy and something about all their debt or some junk like that. I'm no money managing person, but I can weigh in on why a few of these guys might not be around much longer...


Rite-Aid First of all, why would anyone shop at Rite-Aid? It takes just as much time to get in and out of a Rite-Aid as a Wal-Mart, they have a quarter of the selection of a Wal-Mart and their prices are higher than Wally. Plus, I don't get this...in the crappy little town I live in there was a Rite-Aid in the mall. They closed it and moved into a much bigger space on the other side of the mall. They did alot of remodeling from the former tenant. That space was open for like three months and then they closed it and built a new gigantic Rite-Aid right down the road. I call these "Vegas Rite-Aid's" because they are just these huge buildings for almost no reason whatsoever. CVS is doing the same thing, building these oversized stores for their little shaving cream and Life Savers operation. I don't get it, but I'm pretty sure the oversized Rite-Aid building in my town is going to be empty soon.


Claire's I don't see how a store that sells nothing but 40,000 different varieties of chap stick can stay in business anyway, but I guess if you're looking for lip balm that tastes like Lucky Charms or an Orange Crush soda, Claire is who you go to first.


Chrysler I realize that if one of these big car manufacturers goes belly up, alot of people will be out of a job. But don't these big car companies seem to be one Dick Cheney away from being totally evil!?


Dollar Rent-A-Car If your name implies that you're the cheap guy, and your about to go out of business during a recession...maybe you should just close up shop!


Coldwell Banker I'm quite sure if they go belly-up it couldn't' effect my life in the least bit.


Station Casinos They own 15 off-strip casinos in Las Vegas. Maybe it would be nice for a change for a casino to see what it's like to watch all your money go down the toilet.


Loehmann's Some chick clothing store...never heard of them! Good luck guys!

Sbarro First of all, for years I thought this place was called "Sharro" because the bottom of the "b" in their logo is too small and it looks like an "h", still does! If this lame-o pizza chain went out of business, it would make way in food courts across the country for the ol' mom and pop Pizza stand to open back up. You used to go into a mall and find all kinds of different food stands, now every mall has the same handful of eating establishments. I recently discovered that the pizza place in the Columbia Mall...the pizza place that has been there FOREVER...is now gone! Some of these chains are too big for their own good, and I think we'd be better off without a few of them. Sharro, you suck!

Six Flags Six Flags owns over half the amusement parks in the country! If the flags were to come down on this company, it's unlikely that the parks would all go away too. There's millions of dollars invested in each of these parks. With Six Flags needing to make some cash, some of their 30+ parks could fall into the hands of some different management teams who could take the parks in new directions. Six Flags is another company that's too big for it's own good.

Blockbuster I'm a former Blockbuster employee. This place used to be cool, but now they charge almost as much as a movie theatre ticket to rent one stinkin' DVD. Not to mention, the shelves are lined with crap that wasn't good enough to put in a theatre in the first place. Somewhere in the last 10 years they've driven almost all of the independent video stores out of business. A good local video store is an awesome resource in a community and we've lost that in this country. The only way for a non-chain video store to survive is to rent porn, and that's kind of sad...isn't it!? If Blockbuster were to go, small business owners would fill in the need for a good video store in the community.

Krispy Kreme Is it me or are these things too sweet. It's like pouring a sack of pure cane sugar in your mouth. Sorry, Krispy Kreme but America runs on Dunkin'!

Landry's Restaurants These guys own Rainforest Cafe and about 22 other joints. I can't speak about the other places but Rainforest Cafe...maybe if you lowered your prices to somewhere in the neighborhood of reasonable people could afford to eat there more often! Seriously folks, $18 bucks for like six coconut shrimp! Come on!

Sirius Satelite Radio It's like there's nothing good on the radio, so you invest in satellite radio and now you have access to 200 stations of nothing you want to listen to! Good times! I had XM for a year or so and found it dreadfully dull! Nobody's got time to pay for radio when they can just hook up their iPod as easily.

Trump Resorts Boo-Hoo, rich guy! But seriously, I'm all about some Andrew Dice Clay on the new season of The Apprentice.

BearingPoint Some consulting firm....if you don't have a store in the mall than I don't care if you're going out of business. Sorry!