For those of us old enough to have been shopping at malls for decades, it's been awfully strange to watch retailers that have been around forever closing their doors permanently.

Perhaps one of the strangest to see go was Forever21 , the fast-fashion brand once so popular that people stood in long lines at their retail stores to snap up too-cheap-to-believe deals.

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But the company was eventually overtaken by similar low-cost online retailers like Shein and Temu, and eventually had to admit defeat after declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy twice. It closed the last of its physical locations at the beginning of May, vanishing into the ether as if it never was.

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