Greed killed Mervyn's -- and the individuals who reveled in the dismemberment of a good man's creation are the same folks who seek billions of dollars of taxpayers' money to bail out their most recent victim. Chrysler Corporation. GM has shareholders and a future, as does Ford. Chrysler has 40 thieves - who should be left to rot in their cave.

I'm glad to hear that the Mervyn's name might come back to retailing. Mervyn's was a great place for children's clothes, casual clothes, costume and gold jewelry, and, every now and then, a great article of dress clothing. It was always one of my son's favorites because it wasn't overwhelming.

There was one in Mountian View right across San Antino ave from Palo Alto.

All the SV engineers gotta buy their Dockers, socks and underwear somewhere.

I absolutely agree. My son is a skinny little thing, and the only place I could reliably find "slim" pants that, as you say, didn't fall apart after a few playground stints was Mervyn's.

I can't see an online store working in this "niche" at all. I dragged my kiddo there a couple of times a school year because for him, we actually have to try on clothes to find out if they fit. The sizing of lower-end clothes--heck, ALL ready-made clothes in truth--is so variable that there is NO WAY I will buy them online for my son, who was the main reason I went to Mervyn's.

Also, I heard that when your store credit card account is closed because the store goes out of business, it has the same negative effect on your credit rating as if you had closed the account yourself. How is that fair??

It had the advantage of being within a mile of my house, reasonably priced, where I could get decent kids clothes without spending a fortune or driving for miles.

Target clothes literally fall apart within one season. Mervyns clothes, especially their house brand (High Sierra) held together much better, for about the same price.

I'm very sorry to hear that they stiffed their employees in the end. It's not like anyone working there was making any money to speak of.

What goes up must come down. It's the law of physics. America has been living high on the hog, with the lawless executive, and crooked politicians reaping the most benefits. They have went to the well to often and the well is going dry. The Rich behind the schenes Democrats, and Republicans are fighting a war with the American people caught in the middle. It could get ugly.

. . . Mervyns was in a very crowded market of low to mid range department stores. One of them, Mervyns, Target, Fred Meyer, K-Mart, Sears, Penny's and WalMart, was going to go out of business, regardless, and it wasn't going to be WalMart. I'm surprised that a market saturated to the degree it is can support even three of four of these chains.