10 brands that will disappear in 2012

I see these lists pop up from time to time, and it's always weird to see brand names that I grew up with on them. I remember a few years ago seeing the company that I worked for at the time on the list of businesses to disappear in the next year and sure as shit, they filed for bankruptcy not once, but twice the following year, screwing me out of some pay in the process. Some of the ones on this list I'm not entirely surprised to see there, but I never really thought Corn Pops, Sony Ericsson, or Sony Pictures would be there. MySpace I'm really surprised to see on the list because I thought it had already gone under lol.

Any of these surprise any of you? less

I see these lists pop up from time to time, and it's always weird to see brand names that I grew up with on them. I remember a few years ago seeing the company that I worked for at the time on the list of businesses to disappear in the next year and sure as shit, they filed for bankruptcy not once, but twice the following year, screwing me out of some pay in the process. Some of the ones on this list I'm not entirely surprised to see there, but I never really thought Corn Pops, Sony Ericsson, or Sony Pictures would be there. MySpace I'm really surprised to see on the list because I thought it had already gone under lol.

Any of these surprise any of you? less

I'm a little nervous about the T-Mobile thing to be honest because I have them as a service provider. I know it's going to switch to AT&T but I left AT&T 2 years ago for a reason; they refused to do anything about a phone that had insurance when I bought it and stopped working properly. It is not my fault that a phone meant to handle running a small business couldn't handle my texting, which wasn't even all that outrageous lol. We'll see how the merger goes, mayhaps I'll be switching to US Cellular. less

I see these lists pop up from time to time, and it's always weird to see brand names that I grew up with on them. I remember a few years ago seeing the company that I worked for at the time on the list of businesses to disappear in the next year and sure as shit, they filed for bankruptcy not once, but twice the following year, screwing me out of some pay in the process. Some of the ones on this list I'm not entirely surprised to see there, but I never really thought Corn Pops, Sony Ericsson, or Sony Pictures would be there. MySpace I'm really surprised to see on the list because I thought it had already gone under lol.

Any of these surprise any of you? less

I have T-mobile and I'm a little nervous as well. I like T-mobile because their service plans suit my needs. I'm not a huge minutes or text user. However, AT&T will add significantly to the coverage area, which I have on rare occasion had issues with getting on the 3G network when traveling. Another issue I've read about is phone compatibility. Apparently the companies use different systems and T-mobile customers will likely have to switch phones if/when the merger occurs. less

Read the article. The article doesn't say these brands WILL go out of business, only that they have the likelihood of doing so. Companies have pulled themselves out of worse situations than many of these are in.

I'm not surprised by Sears/Kmart. They have lost quality in recent years, treated their customers terribly, out sourced repair service and lost customers (like us, we decided about 6 or 7 years ago to never buy an other large appliance from them, as the people they hired to service our new furnace and other appliances never called us back, didn't do good work and lied to us!) Also, the people who work in the Sears stores are, for the most part, rude, SLOW and outright nasty. Sales companies don't seem to realize that their employees are the face of the company to the public and when they treat people like garbage, people shop elsewhere. The demise of the Venture stores was, in part, based on the fact that people started shopping elsewhere because of their rude, under trained staff. Sears used to have good sales staff, now they go cheap, pay cheap, and they will suffer because of it. A company can't cut corners and expect "customer loyalty" when they themselves have no loyalty to the customer. less

I've noticed both Kmart and Sears have been in the same boat for at least 10 years. Kmart has always been over-priced for crappier goods. Sears always seemed like an "old person" brand and were over-priced too.

For A&W, you can still buy the soda...so that's good. Mix it with buttershots and add french vanilla ice cream. less

I'm a little nervous about the T-Mobile thing to be honest because I have them as a service provider. I know it's going to switch to AT&T but I left AT&T 2 years ago for a reason; they refused to do anything about a phone that had insurance when I bought it and stopped working properly. It is not my fault that a phone meant to handle running a small business couldn't handle my texting, which wasn't even all that outrageous lol. We'll see how the merger goes, mayhaps I'll be switching to US Cellular. less

I was with the portion of Alltel that At&T got - what a TOTAL disaster the takeover was. It to FOREVER and then there was no service in my area after the "upgrade" to AT&T. Basically we waited months, got phones from AT&T (they were cheap replacement phones) and then the service did not work. THey strung us along saying they were working on it. I finally got sick of it and switched companies. I am with Union Wireless now. less