/r/retailporn

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A place to post all pictures pertaining to retail!

Reddit Retail Network: /r/RetailPorn - /r/NotFoolingAnybody - /r/RetailNostalgia - /r/RetailNews

Submission guidelines:

  • Include some context in your title.
  • Include the photographer's name in the title, if known.
  • Only submit static images.
  • Albums containing multiple images are allowed.
  • Videos, interactive images/websites, and articles are not allowed. (However, please consider submitting this sort of content to /r/RetailNostalgia or /r/RetailNews.)
  • Do not submit a shortened link using a URL shortener like tinyurl.
  • Make sure your image is hosted by an approved host.
    • Original source is allowed and preferred over the approved hosts. If your submission is not on the list of approved hosts, but it is an original source, please use the tag [OS] so your submission is not removed in error. If your image is rehosted from another approved host it will be removed.
    • It is preferable that the location be included in the title.
    • If you took the photo yourself, you can signify this by using the tag [OC] (original content) and after 24 hours you will be given special flair. If you don't receive flair after a few days feel free to message the mods.
  • If you have any other questions please check out the FAQ.

  • Related subreddits:

    • /r/NotFoolingAnybody, for pictures of former chain businesses that have been converted to other uses, yet still strongly resemble their former use.
    • /r/RetailNostalgia, for the sharing and discussion of retail-related memories from the distant and recent past.
    • /r/RetailNews, for retail-related news of interest to the retail enthusiast

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    76

    Whopper Hopper from Burger King

    1 Comment
    2024/12/01
    20:48 UTC

    9

    The Zayre store located at Keystone Ave in Indianapolis, IN, housed in an obvious former Kmart

    0 Comments
    2024/12/01
    18:09 UTC

    24

    The first Walmart ever

    The Grand opening advertisement for their first store in 1962

    1 Comment
    2024/12/01
    08:12 UTC

    40

    A VERY outdated Do It Best, still fully in operation. (Decatur, IN)

    2 Comments
    2024/11/29
    05:02 UTC

    15

    All-plastic Target shopping carts next to a plastic-metal shopping cart

    4 Comments
    2024/11/24
    02:36 UTC

    23

    Sign For A Former Cingular Wireless Store (Frederick, MD)

    2 Comments
    2024/11/23
    21:45 UTC

    31

    ancient sears/kenmore vacumn at garage sale

    ancient is only an exaggeration of course. only $5!

    1 Comment
    2024/11/23
    18:34 UTC

    7

    Deerbrook Mall Gap

    I found an old photo of the gap store in Deerbrook mall, Humble Texas. The store closed in 2016 and was vacant for a while until it became Aerie by American Eagle.

    0 Comments
    2024/11/20
    06:47 UTC

    39

    There goes another red roof McDonald’s. (Middletown, New Jersey)

    8 Comments
    2024/11/17
    22:20 UTC

    15

    any guesses on what this could've been?

    retail history website says it was a hardees at some point, but I've never seen a hardees like this. it could've opened as a hardees and I could be wrong

    8 Comments
    2024/11/09
    23:05 UTC

    124

    The original Subway in Connecticut

    2 Comments
    2024/11/04
    04:01 UTC

    62

    The now-former Best Buy in Gaithersburg, Maryland, now in the process of vacating after a 30-year run [4000 x 3000] [OC]

    4 Comments
    2024/11/02
    01:21 UTC

    97

    McDonald's at Thomaston Ave. in Waterbury, CT when opened back in 1964

    3 Comments
    2024/10/25
    05:30 UTC

    21

    Former Toys"R"Us and Babies"R"Us in Danbury, Connecticut. (October 2024)

    Toys"R"Us became an Ocean State Job Lot around 4/5 years ago, and the Babies"R"Us became a Planet Fitness around 2 years ago.

    0 Comments
    2024/10/20
    19:12 UTC

    7

    BuyBuyBaby closing sign. Hoover, Alabama, May 29,2023

    1 Comment
    2024/10/19
    21:01 UTC

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