Late last year, I remarked about the death of retail computer chain CompUSA. It died a fiery death in some parts, but other locations took months to finally shutter. Oddly enough, their website is still up and appears as if nothing ever happened.
From Gizmodo comes two very sad photos of a store after the [...]

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Yesterday evening, Starbuckses all over the City and I think the Country closed their doors for 3 hours. While most accountants are no doubt pulling their hair over the lost latte sales, from a branding point of view I raise my hands and applaud.
The reason for the close: training. Staff was given the time to [...]

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