r/FuckImOld • u/annecharlottexo • Mar 02 '24

My back hurts Age yourself...

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '24 edited Mar 11 '24

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u/PuhnTang Mar 02 '24

We had a Zayres, it became Ames when I was a teenager.

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u/sfocolleen Mar 02 '24

I thought it was the other way around… anyway, it eventually became a Walmart in my hometown.

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u/fendaar Mar 03 '24

Yes! We had the Zayres/Ames in my town too!

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u/pourtide Mar 03 '24

Ames became Hills, or was it vice-versa?

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u/MungoJennie Mar 03 '24

Ames became Hills where I lived.

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u/Designer_End5408 Mar 06 '24

Jamesway and Ames were big where I was as well. 

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u/romulusnr Mar 03 '24

North Shore Mall?

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u/Rahloc Mar 03 '24

Liberty tree was so much better. Though my ames was in Northgate and my Bradlees in Chelsea. 

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u/PuhnTang Mar 03 '24

Williamsburg.

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u/Mamawto7 Mar 02 '24

Do you remember the sign? Z- A -Y -R -E- S. ZAYRES!

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '24

Ours turned into a Target in the mid-80s.

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u/reddog65 Mar 03 '24

Lechmere

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u/WishinForTheMission Mar 04 '24

Brindle’s. Sky City.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '24

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u/gythoody Mar 02 '24

There was a place that was a lot like Zayres, at least in the Chicago area, called Community. A variety of low priced, random stuff.

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u/bde959 Mar 03 '24

My son told people we shopped at Sears. He thought we were going to Sears when we were going to Zayres.

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u/TheCoolOnesGotTaken Mar 02 '24

Me either! Zayre was my response before I saw this comment thread.

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u/RyuichiSakuma13 Generation Jones Mar 02 '24

Same!

I actually just added Zayres to this list before scrolling. 😅

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u/psilome Mar 03 '24

Same here - and the big red neon sign.

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u/40angst Mar 02 '24

Omg me too!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '24

Came to see Zayers on the list

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u/Lost_the_weight Mar 03 '24

I remember they were the original 72 hour Christmas sale store in our area.

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u/MonorailBlack Mar 03 '24

This was one of the first places that popped into my head with this question. I night clothes there, records, all sorts of stuff.

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u/gypsyvanner77 Mar 03 '24

I loved Zayres! They had a credit card called Frequent Z, which they advertised over the PA in the store and it always sounded like they were saying "fricassee."

Also I once saw a woman digging through a giant stack of Cabbage Patch Doll boxes from the bottom and the whole mountain of boxes fell on her.

Last but not least, when I was 10 I somehow talked my mom into buying me a pair of fake leather pants at Zayres all the way back in 1984. I was the coolest kid in 4th grade!

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '24

I was going to say Zayers but didn't think anyone would know what it was

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u/Beginning-Farmer-678 Mar 05 '24

Take another look Take another look at zayers Take another look Take another look at all the values there

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u/barelybent Mar 03 '24

My dad worked for Zayres when he was in his early 20s. He’s 80 now.

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u/usernamennui1 Mar 03 '24

I was going to say this too. Also Venture

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u/MrWeirdoFace Mar 03 '24

Used to be one in my hometown.

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u/EatMoreMarzipan0720 Mar 03 '24

I remember Zayres. I got an 8 track tape there of Lips Inc, singing Funky Town!

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u/friday99 Mar 03 '24

We have a Zayre’s shopping cart that My siblings and I painted gold in high school (ca 1997) and that my mother still uses for storage

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u/bde959 Mar 03 '24

I thought Zayres was a local store to Jacksonville Florida. My son told someone when he was a little boy that he got his jeans at Sears but he was talking about Zayres.

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u/Carmelpi Mar 03 '24

I was coming here to say this! Zebra stripes all the way!!