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Our colleague Suzanne Kappner covers the retail industry, and in 2021, a new company wanted to picture a story.

The company was called Rev, which stood for retail, e-commerce, ventures.

And they had reached out to me saying, hey, you know, talk to us. We have this great business model.

This company was buying up all these, you know, defunct retailers who had filed for bankruptcy,

who were struggling to survive.

Radio Shack, Pier One, the list goes on, Dress Bar and Modell's Sporting Goods.

As you were listing off those names, I can just like see myself walking down a mall in like 1997.

And like I can see the logos.

There's just like a who's who of 90s mall brands.

It was a who's who of dead mall brands, really.

Their idea was to buy these well-known but failing brands and turn them into digital juggernauts.

We're getting them on the cheap. It won't be so hard to turn them around.

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