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Eerie photos of abandoned malls, big-box and chain stores

Where have all the patrons gone?

Doriean Stevenson
Doriean Stevenson is a Los Angeles-based writer who is partially named after the DeLorean. True story.
Doriean Stevenson
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Kmart

Unwanted furniture lays outside a vacant Kmart store.

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Levitz Furniture

This furniture store surrendered back in 2009.

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Empty first floor

Here's the first floor of a doomed Sears a few days before it closed in 2017.

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Bye-bye Babies 'R' Us

Here's the barren parking lot at a Babies "R" Us store slated to close in 2018. 

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Virgin Megastore

This Virgin store in Paris closed its doors in 2013.

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Pathmark

The empty shelves of this closed Pathmark store are the definition of ominous.

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Where'd you leave your car?

An empty parking lot is seen at White Flint Mall in Maryland. The mall died in 2015.

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Sole employees

This was all that was left of a Canadian Sears before it recently closed.

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Blockbuster Video

Nothing left to rent in this abandoned Blockbuster store.

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Circuit City

After closing in 2008, the parking lot is the only part of this Circuit City store still being used.

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Kmart

The aisles of this closed Kmart are all but barren.

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Sears

This display is only half the mannequin it used to be at this abandoned Sears store. Maybe its other half is busy picking up a Kenmore or a Frigidaire?

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Tower Records

Well-known media retailer Tower Records closed its doors in Long Beach in 2007. The storefront looks innocent enough. But inside...

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Tower Records

The record store is a shell of what it once was.

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Target

A Target in Canada is devoid of customers -- and Oster toaster ovens, and Vitamix blenders -- after closing in 2015.

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Winn-Dixie

Nothing of value is left inside this closed Winn-Dixie store.

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Kmart

Racks upon racks stand empty at a closed Kmart store.

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Best Buy

This Chicago Best Buy was one of about 50 locations that shut down in 2012.

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JC Penney

This particular location closed its doors in spring of 2015. As of October 2016, this space remains empty in a mall in Quincy, Illinois.

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A Bangkok shopping mall

If one store isn't sad enough, this derelict shopping mall should do the trick.

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Woolworths

This Woolworths in England has little left to offer.

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Borders

Borders filed for bankruptcy in 2011 and closed all of its locations over the next few years.

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Future Shop

Canadian retailer Future Shop closed several stores abruptly in 2013.

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Starbucks

No, it's not technically a big box store. But it's a sad sight nonetheless.

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Lowe's

Who has ever seen a Lowe's so empty?

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Albertsons

This empty interior was once the liquor department of a former Albertsons grocery store.

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Bed Bath & Beyond

If you look closely enough at where the sign used to be, you can see this was once a Bed Bath & Beyond in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Big K

Here lies a former Big K store. Rumor has it Costco planned to open a grocery store in this Washington location, but scrapped the idea, so the building remains vacant.

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Home Depot

What was once a Home Depot is now an empty building.

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Office Depot

This Office Depot operated in Pleasant Hill, California, from 2005 to 2016 and is rumored for rebirth as a Total Wine store.

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Sears

This abandoned Sears was found in St. Bernard parish in New Orleans.

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Sports Authority

Looks like this Sports Authority at the West Valley Mall in Tracy, California, lost the game pretty hard.

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Walgreen's

This abandoned Walgreen's looks awfully lonely.

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Lowe's

This eerie facade once greeted customers to this former Lowe's location.

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No more Macy's

Here's the ghost of a Macy's store in 2017 in Alexandria, Virginia. 

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Closed mystery store

Here's a mystery store that closed in Dublin, California in 2018. 

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Lonely mannequins

Empty shopping racks and mannequins being sold at discount prices are displayed at the soon-to-be-closed JCPenney in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

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Remember Deb?

A shuttered Deb store at a doomed Pennsylvania mall.

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Taking up residence in a dying mall

A lone homeless man is one of the few people at the Schuylkill Mall in Pennsylvania ahead of its closing in 2017. 

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How long have those gumballs been in there?!

The gumballs are the only residents left at the doomed Schuylkill Mall in 2017.

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Lonely Linens-N-Things

A shuttered Linens-N-Things store Corona, California.

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