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Home retail chain Brookstone has filed for bankruptcy for the second time since 2014 after more than four decades of business. Barring 35 airport locations, all of its US outlets will be shut down.
For many, Brookstone's exit from the shopping scene may be as bittersweet as when The Sharper Image closed its doors in 2008, or SkyMall's demise seven years later. Its quirky assemblage of non-essentials -- 3D printing pens, Parrot AR Drones and gigantic Dance Dance Revolution remote controls -- offered customers a welcome escape from the throes of everyday life, and a chance to buy obscure gifts.
[...] Brookstone's CEO Piau Phang Foo said it was a 'difficult' decision to shut down mall stores, but is still keen to continue operations "with a smaller physical footprint". So Brookstone hasn't been completely extinguished from the retail map -- you'll just need to seek out its novelty products online from now on.
Source: Engadget
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @12:13AM (1 child)
Wikipedia says Brookstone was founded in 1965: "Pierre de Beaumont and his wife Mary began Brookstone in 1965, for $500." It started as a mail order company. You're taking the opening of the first store as the founding date. The problem isn't Wikipedia, it's your thinking and that of whoever wrote the headline.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Sunday August 05 2018, @02:37AM
Wit is intellect, dancing.