Blockbuster plans to close its remaining 300 U.S. stores, leading many to joke that they didn’t realize it still had stores in the first place. But it takes a lot to kill off a company. Just take a look at these stats from businesses presumed to be dead already.
RadioShack still has 4,291 company-operated retail stores in the United States.
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AOL still has 2.5 million subscribers to its Internet-access business (as in, dial-up).
Worth noting, however: AOL says this includes both dial-up and "other products and services."
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At end of fiscal 2013, Best Buy had 165,000 full-time, part-time and seasonal employees.
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In its June-ending quarter, BlackBerry shipped 6.8 million smartphones.
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