Have you ever turned the corner on the street and caught sight of a business and thought—wow, that’s still around? What made that lone Blockbuster Video hang on in Oregon, long after it had lost relevance? Today we’re looking at zombies of the business landscape


The last years have not been kind to many retail brands and you’ve come to expect to hear in the news that some other major business has failed. We’ve spent the last few years watching well-known brands—like Lord and Taylor—fail. And at the same time—on the far other end of the spectrum-- there seem to be these peculiar hold-outs. Oddball businesses that just keep going.