Discount retailer Filene's Basement shut down operations after parent company Syms Corp. failed to bounce back from a string of bankruptcies during increased competition in the off-price market. Filene's Basement closed its remaining stores in 2011 and has since been resurrected in the form of an e-commerce site.
Henri Bendel said goodbye for good in January 2019, closing all remaining stores including its iconic New York flagship store after parent company L Brands decided to liquidate its assets.
In 2018, Bon-Ton Stores Inc. announced it would liquidate all 256 of its stores across its seven brands, including its namesake Bon-Ton store. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company failed to find a buyer and ultimately called it quits. Today, Bon-Ton has a small online presence.
Elder-Beerman was part of the 2018 Bon-Ton liquidation, though it had already been reduced to a fraction of its original fleet when several stores were absorbed or transformed into Bon-Ton stores in the years before.
Herberger's was yet another victim of the Bon-Ton liquidation. It was founded in the Midwest in 1927.
Carson's, which was primarily located in the Midwest, also shuttered as a result of the Bon-Ton liquidation.
Bergner's, essentially Carson's upscale Midwestern cousin, closed alongside its fellow Bon-Ton brands in 2018.
Bon-Ton-owned Boston Store, founded in 1897 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also closed its doors for good in 2018.
Last but not least, Younkers said its swan song after operating for more than a century, joining its fellow Bon-Ton brands in the retail graveyard.
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