Forever 21 shares closing, gift card news after Ch. 11 bankruptcy
Attempts were made to find a buyer, but those efforts have failed so shoppers need to know these dates.
When a retail chain dies, it tends to be a slow, drawn-out affair.
You almost never see a chain die quickly. Instead, it happens in stages that often end in a dramatic death scene where a last-minute recovery still seems possible.
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The last few weeks for a retail chain that's going out of business often seem like the final minutes in the life of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.
In that scene, Luke, his recently-discovered son, drags the Sith lord toward a shuttle after Vader had saved the young Jedi from Emperor Palpatine's Force Lightning. They don't quite make it, but the dying bad guy has time for a little more drama on the ramp of the shuttle.
He asks Luke to remove his helmet so he can look upon his son with his own eyes. Luke points out that doing that will kill him, Vader says it's inevitable, and Star Wars fans get the long-awaited Darth Vader without his helmet shot.
