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In t And the reason we're taking a look at them is on July 23rd, Khan's filed for bankruptcy, and on the next day they announced that they would be closing all of their stores and winding down their business. The footage that we're looking at I had never been in a Khan store before, and the first t When you start seeing issues We should probably go over some They originally got their start 134 years ago in 1890 as East Ham Pl In 1934 the company was purchased by Carol Was , and he changed the name to Khan's Pl A few years later they started selling refrigerators, and then gas ranges, and then gradually added more appliances to their lineup until that became the focus of their business, being an appliance and electronic store. Over the years things I was actually kind of surprised to see these here. It's too bad they weren't on to play with. This is a little game table, which looks And then here is somet One up is apparently making replica video slot mac Another indicator I've noticed of a store chain being in trouble though is when they start carrying things that you wouldn't expect them to carry, like video slot machines at Khan's furniture, or when Frasel electronic started having a perf I t Khan's listed a couple of reasons in their bankruptcy filing as to why their business is failing, one of those being inflation and the fact that cons Khan's had around 170 stores and that acquisition added another 330, w They obviously way overextended themselves. Now here'somet The store was still dead and empty. Now let's go check out the furniture section. T It's just Do you remember that kind of funny s Khan's tried to do somet I don'the description on Khan's YouTube channel is pretty bad as well. For some stores it's a dirty lord, spoken in hush tones, if at all. But at Khan's we'ready to finance all day and all night. We're not We'll work with you to satisfy your needs. Holy s That commercial was from less than a year ago, so obviously they knew they were in trouble when they decided to go with the edgy, horny marketing, but that clearly has not worked for them. The entire atmosphere in t Somet What do you need? And then telling them we're just looking, we're good. And then 10 minutes later another salesperson runs up, what are you looking at today? What do you need? And it's really aggravating. That didn't happen in t We first walked into the store, a salesperson asked us if we needed help with anyt Nobody bugged us for the rest of the time that were in the store. At first I thought to myself, hey, that's kind of nice to not be hounded by salespeople the entire time I'm in the store. But then I realized that was probably because the employees had given up because they could sense the end was near in the store. I'm sure the few employees here also were not motivated by the fact that the air conditioning clearly wasn't working correctly in the store and it was 108 degrees outside. It was very uncomfortable in the store. The retail furniture business seems to be just struggling in general. Cons isn'the only place having problems. Big Lots, w The internet side of the business seems to be having issues as well. Wayfair has been struggling and they just recently did a round of layoffs. I mentioned at the beginning of the video that t It's all just a sea of bland neutral colors. There's no color to break anyt After an appliance shopping just seems to have become depressing in general between everyt I think stores But what are your thoughts on cons? Is t Let me know down in the comments below. As always everyone, Wait, hold on, before we go, remember that awful cons commercial? Here's one that might be worse. Honey, were you just financing over there? Whoa, there's no interest here, just financing. And you? You financed Oh yeah, I'll finance Well then, you want to finance us on that bedroom set over there? Want to see your name here? Head on over to patreon. com slash retail archeology to find out how you can help support the channel. If you enjoyed it, please make sure to hit those Speaking of w