What a great name for a calendar company - Day-Timers. Do you know when they went out of business? Likely not. They didn't quite go out of business. They merged with MeadWestvaco, laid off staff and moved locations to consolidate, and laid off a lot of people. The original company, started in the 1940s was a family-run printing press hobby business changed forever. Everyone who worked in corporations had a day-timer in the 1970s to 1980s.
That's just one story of a product that I used to be intimate with every day and now is gone.
There are many such companies that have disappeared over the last 10 years and we notice or don't notice them. Do you know that Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus is gone - that was in 2017. Just the Museum is there to remind us of their greatness.
The A&P Supermarket - something familiar across Ontario - closed in 2015 and sold its locations. That was the Jane Parker in-house brand. We enjoyed the spice cake my mother used to buy and pack in our lunches.
Toys R Us - that familiar huge retail brand covering the front of the stores is gone - it had its ups and downs and finally was gone in 2017 - with $5 billion worth of debt and closing 800 locations.
We might have used a Compaq computer - gone in 2013 retired by HP after being acquired in 2002.
And all those neighbourhood Blockbuster video stores - that was 2010. There seemed to be one in every neighbourhood in west-end Toronto.
I guess I got to wondering about all of the change that seems to happen so often that I don't notice as last week Nordstrom announced it was selling its fixtures and furniture along with all its stock. In the Eaton Centre it seems to me that it had the entrance to the subway food section. I wonder what will happen there. | 
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