Fallas & Factory 2-U: Is This The End? | Retail Archaeology

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[@FateBoost]

Time traveller!

[@Star-wr4bq]

The Factory 2 - U by my house closed a few days ago and it is completely empty only the registers were left inside. We also had an Anna's linens in our mall but it closed a few years ago. We still have a few Fallas Paredes that are open but it's just crazy to see how they are closing so quickly. People would shop there like crazy but I never understood why since their items were sometimes of poor quality. (I'm from Texas)

[@n62956]

I remember it used to be called Family Bargain in my hometown in Central Cali. It’s horrible inside but the workers were so friendly. I remember stepping on urine lol yes, urine inside the store. I took a pic awhile back and there was just mess every and aisles filled with stuff - probably 6ft worth of random stuff. It was a fire hazard and I’m surprised no one ever reported it. I like buying cheap lounge/gym wear there. I did like bargain shopping there but it smelled like rubber and it made me dizzy.

[@pinkelefant4ever]

Shopped at Factory 2 U when they were in my area. Nice discount store.

[@faviolagonzalez2997]

There's a fallas Paredes near my home I only go to buy cheap clothes to give out to a baby shower lol it's always a mess tho in my local store they look exactly like those two Stores. I call fallas Fai-yas

[@Jelloitsme]

I honestly thought these stores were just little, local, cheap asain stores. Didn’t think they were a true chain. This is so surprising to me...

[@SparklesnTiaras]

Same here. Interesting

[@mstiefan6996]

Whatever company makes the "Going Out of Business" signs and the like have made quite the killing this year in terms of profits.

[@I_WANT_MY_SLAW]

There isn't one specific company that makes them. A lot of factories make them. You can buy them at the dollar store.

[@thefloridianman]

Maybe it’s Hilco or Gordon Brothers or Tiger Capital

[@thefloridianman]

Yeah stores like Toys R Us, Bon Ton, and Southern Grocers (Winn-Dixie, Bi Lo, Harvey’s, and Fresco Y Mas) and more had those signs that were mostly used since 2010 (Hollywood Video was the first to use the closing signs)

[@itsprincessleia]

Former Fallas employee here and Christ, it was a nightmare of job. I was hired to help with the closing sales about three months before we closed. First of all, we had the same AC issues here in one of the northeast stores as well!! We had massive heatwaves and we were still expected to work as normal when it was unbearable. I had coworkers constantly getting sick from it. Second, the store manager was a total asshole. She put all of us down and also when we mentioned to her about how unbearable it was to work (without the ac) she would say shhhh. She’d have us work extreme overtime. Say we closed at 930, we’d be expected to stay till 11, which pay in mind we’re supposed to only stay half an hour after the store closes max. Once my assistant manager closed, then she made her stay till 3 am THEN EXPECTED HER TO OPEN THE STORE THAT MORNING. It was gross. The store condition was just as bad as these stores if not more gross. And while they did high outside help for liquidation signs, WE WERE EXPECTED TO DO EVERYTHING. It was a complete nightmare when we found out that we actually had to close earlier than the rest of the stores because the rent was going to run out on the first. They only gave us two weeks to clean out the store. TWO WEEKS!!! We weren’t even up to 50% off yet when it happened so imagine the amount of merchandise we had left. We had to bag it all up and ship it to another store.... and then when the last two days came, WE WERE EXPECTED TO DISASSEMBLE ALL THE FIXTURES. All while my manager took her vacation time that week, leaving just us employees and the assistant manager as well as another assistant manager from another store in charge of all that. The liquidator came in to watch us... but literally barely did shit. Our stock room was in a basement.. with a broken conveyor-belt, but yet we were expected to carry up EVERY SINGLE THING IN THAT STOCK ROOM. We had Huge items that even the strongest people on our crew struggled to bring up. Sure the prices were dirt cheep at the end (we had curtains priced at .50 each for example) but I would never EVER shop at that store or work for them again. The company 100% doesn’t care about their employees at all. It’s disgusting.

[@ignazs.5816]

That's the nature of retail nowadays.

[@johndillinger3988]

I use to work for a Fallas as well in the 2010s - 2014 . I felt that every Manager , assistant manager ( execept for two that worked and helped ) but the all the others were lazy and expected everyone to work and help keep your deparment clean and also if they had to pick up a deparment then they would HAve u clean their department as well because they would have to “count “ money .. all day ? No they would lock themselves in the office and just kick it in there and laugh ! Lazy managers !! Go backs was crap !! The store was always dirty !! I was so glad when I left the company :) found a better job with better pay ! And never looked back ! Also the District managers always thought they where above everyone else ! They’d walked in with a smirk and never say hi to their Peers ( Fallas employees ) bunch of Daisys!

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

It's a sweat shop. Fallas is a sweatshop.

[@xaviere2008]

I feel bad about that.

[@toshamanier6544]

Why did you stay? Dang!

[@christinesarkis4029]

I briefly worked at a Fallas about 10 years ago. As something of a neat freak, I spent so much time just cleaning up trashed displays that I never got anything else done and they fired me.

[@clairesmyth8733]

You're a better woman than me.

[@cuatesanz5611]

You were ruining their aesthetics... lol 😆

[@904czv4]

I’ve never heard of this store but it’s not right that the employees should be subjected to a work environment like was shown on the news story. And how do they expect customers to come into a hot-ass store and shop? C’mon man. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@MsDesignDiva]

True! Especially considering that it's a clothing store along with other things technically, but mostly clothing, so I imagine at one point there were fitting rooms. I can only imagine how disgustingly sweaty the clothes would become after even just a few people trying things on in such a hot store.

[@posae86]

I can smell this store through the video. It makes me feel like I need a shower.

[@CommodoreFan64]

I think I need a washdown in old fashioned Lysol cleaner after this video yikes!!!

[@teddybonkers3580]

They do the best they can ma'am. You try running a store, it's very difficult. Hehehe hahaha hohohoho hoohooohooohooohoo

[@dalethelander3781]

You too?

[@furrtakuXD]

every fallas ive ever been in was actually surprisinly clean. they didnt even have that "old building materials" smell

[@deannalopez8874]

Moldy and musty... Everyones bodily fluids mixing together because of how hot it always is.

[@melodyconroy3879]

My grandma loves that store.... I think she might be the only one keeping it alive.

[@Eceron33]

I remember being at the Fallas location with my brother when I was about 14yrs old and this employee told us if you pick up the toys on the floor and put them back on the shelves I’ll give both of you a dollar

[@CorvetteZ06owner]

They have several of the Fallas Paredes stores down in Dallas, Tx. They are geared towards the hispanic population. I went there one time with an ex girlfriend, and suddenly felt like I was inside a rundown K-Mart. The atmosphere took me back to the early 90’s. All I needed to complete the nostalgia was the scent of pizza and icee (Dallas k-marts had little ceasars and icee shops in them🥴).

[@PiitaaDerbez]

My mom used to take us there for school uniforms. That's where all of us east LA kids got our uniforms haha

[@xaviere2008]

Arizona too...

[@MelodieOctavia]

"I hope they weren't eating the pigeons" Narrator: They were totally eating the pigeons.

[@chrissawyer1484]

Dan D Mann Exactly what my inner narrator said.

[@dalethelander3781]

Tastes like chicken.

[@wolfgang1097]

That sucks.

[@slaytanicsabbath]

It's pronounced pēnis

[@fazdoll]

What else do you expect from Wieners and Fallases?

[@Mrtfarrugia]

These guys wouldn't even fix the AC. What a bunch of dicks.

[@jasburger]

JDM A'F No

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

Penis walls.

[@slaytanicsabbath]

@@GODCONVOYPRIME with biscuits wheels

[@albear972]

LOL! Those classy Christmas shirts at 2:35 especially the elf inflicted gunshot wound one. 🤣

[@kaiokendo]

fallas mean fails...falla el aire acondicionado de mierda

[@904czv4]

kaiokendo Lol exactly!

[@DavidAbyssal]

Al menos la mierda les llega gratis, como el bollo que logró captar en vídeo detrás del almacen...

[@MelodieOctavia]

And paredes means walls. Walls of failure.

[@historylvr8000]

Fallas pronounced Fah-yuh actually means( faults) in this case. While failure is the technical meaning it also has other uses and meanings in Spanish...

[@theblackericacane8714]

kaiokendo that’s exactly what I told my daughter the name alone sounds like a failure I wouldn’t want to shop there

[@CvBrony]

Working in 100F heat without A/C. And the manager does one shift and says "it can be done" before going back to working in an A/C office and a golden parachute. Obscene. No way they pay their staff anything significantly above min wage, and would pay even less if they could. Another reason for UBI - so people don't have to be taken advantage of like that.

[@zorakihyena7392]

Its shameful that not only a store, but a store geared and based around the Hispanic community has allowed itself to sink so low, not only damaging itself but also poorly representing the communities and families that have given so much for them to stay open until their final days.

[@PiitaaDerbez]

My parents are older Mexican folks and I don't think they care much about how a store looks. In fact we used to go to Fallas for back to school shopping, although I don't think conditions were as bad back then. Personally I don't care much about the appearance either. I would care more about how they treat their workers.

[@zorakihyena7392]

@@aocplusme5676 Only thing disgusting here is the blatant ignorance behind that claim. It's ignorance like that has allowed the company running these stores to have neglected them and their employees/communities, the belief that those shopping or working at their stores deserve no better.

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

Democrats ladies and gentlemen!!!!! If it weren't for all the taxes in the state things wouldn't be this bad here. And Guess who's in charge of taxes? Democrats.

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

@@PiitaaDerbez I'd care more about how the workers treat the customers. Most of the people working there are extremely self entitled.

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

@@aocplusme5676 you're not too far off.

[@meevil24]

I have never heard of these shops before.

[@CommodoreFan64]

Same here, but the quality of the merch reminds me of Fred's, or Roses but at least those two do better at keeping their stores looking decent enough to shop in.

[@kelly3014]

We had a D&K Store ( opened and closed in the 90’s) that was similar, but it was never this dirty.

[@DMacDGBSM]

You not from L.A.

[@meevil24]

@@DMacDGBSM No, I is not from LA

[@PiitaaDerbez]

They're mostly in socal but I think I've seen one in Las Vegas.

[@Ggobeat]

I always shopped at Fallas for mens Hype skinny jeans. They were only $12.99 but the best part was the way they fit. They're also comfortable and stretchy enough, durable, and fair quality to be honest. They always had a whole bunch of different colors too. When I found out the two closest locations to me were closing down, I rushed to both in one day and bought all the skinny jeans I found in my size in different colors at 40% additional. I should have enough skinny jeans for a few years haha. I always found something worth buying at Fallas, and I am going to miss that store though. Thanks for the video.

[@yasmeen7875]

Yes the hype jeans are great!

[@Karmy.]

That first store looks like every Kmart I had ever been to lol

[@InugamiTheHound]

I agree with you same with TJ maxx and Ross and Big lots. They all look so nasty and bad.

[@wolfgang1097]

@@InugamiTheHound Kmart and Big Lots are ok (I wish they were maintained better), I mean I feel like any Walmart near where I live is worse.

[@InugamiTheHound]

@@wolfgang1097 IMO they should get rid of Kmart and turn them all into Sears stores.

[@wolfgang1097]

@@InugamiTheHound I dunno. I think I might miss Kmart a tad more than Sears to be honest. It won't be long until they go out of business.

[@zacharyouten4525]

Jeez, I've seen abandoned buildings in better shape than this. That is sick what they did to their employees, I sure wouldn't have stuck around in conditions like that, especially when the management obviously doesn't care about them.

[@MelodieOctavia]

I have memories of that same Factory 2-U as a kid. I got my clothes there. My mom got her clothes there. I spent my allowance on toys there. Man, they had a lot of toys there. Back then, it was very nicely maintained, and they rotated their whole stock every week. It actually makes me pretty sad to see it in this condition. Just another casualty of Internet shopping. Just another company that has refused to pivot to an online entity. Even Goodwill has an auction site.

[@azmax623]

Yeah, these stores are the same in Name Only. There's crap products brought in for them and no deals to be found

[@Elmestiso74]

I was a store manager for one their stores in Los Angeles . The issue with this company was they operated in a very % designated for payroll. The owner Michael Fallas believed in always pushing all the inventory into the sales floor, they believed in using every space to make a sale which made the sales floor look cluttered and messy . Fallas paredes purchased factory 2 u after factory 2 U went bankrupt.

[@banjoplayingbison2275]

I live in Albuquerque and there are a couple of these stores here! The one nearby me is pretty disorganized. It’s pretty packed with stuff. There is often only one employee working there and they are often too busy at the register to organize the store. I feel bad for them because the upper management at these stores seem so incompetent. What’s even more strange is there is a lot of on sale merchandise that is right outside the entrance! Likely because its too packed inside the store! Also they don’t really care about it! Probably a lot of people steal it!

[@sombrashibe]

My town got a Conway that turned into a Fallas a couple of years ago. Now the Fallas is closed. It was competing with a Rainbow next door and Burlington up the road...

[@PotatoVampireTaco]

I rather buy at Walmart, goodwill, or go to the flea market. I'm glad it is out of business, the employees can do better. I can't stand stores like these because they are intentionally placed in bad neighborhoods, and are poorly maintained both inside and out which cause shopping strips to lose appeal. They placed a fallas next to a best buy near me and it got closed down, but people have broke into the abandon store and apparently easily broke the wall inside to get to best buy and rob it.

[@jeffp3495]

I used to hide in those circular racks from my mom too

[@justinmckenzie9851]

I didn’t know Anna linens was part of fallas

[@thisjustin95]

Factory 2-U is part of my childhood! In the early 90's, my mother wore this lipstick called Caribbean Sunset that could only be found at Factory 2-U. Later on when they closed, she had to go to the Indoor Swap Meet off the I-17 to buy it.

[@bigfudge3932]

As a kid we used to shop at Factory 2U for affordable uniforms and toys. It's a little sad to see it go but I understand it. Our local store has always been hot, dirty, and muggy. There's also a homeless camp behind the store.

[@andymann1667]

Worked at a Fallas Paredes store in Norwalk Ca. in 2007. If you thought the the sales floor was bad the back room was even worse!

[@EllieBellie_111]

I remember buying my cheer uniforms there decades ago. It smelled so horrible. And my parents were too broke to go anywhere else. My mom bought some Christmas gifts for me there too. Ugh. It never lost the stench. I couldn't tell her I was upset. Glad it's going away. It's okay to be cheap. It's not okay to be terrible.

[@uhhJordann]

Looks like a thrift store with non used clothes

[@robertsitch1415]

Just about any newer thrift store will be cleaner and better maintained though.

[@timspooner59]

Greetings from Auckland New Zealand. Love your videos .

[@TheManCage]

The one by my childhood home was all three at one point, Weiners, Factory 2U and now Fallas Parades.

[@josephtafur]

Wow

[@celsovera91]

What was that district manager smoking when he said the store is ok to work in without AC especially in Arizona which is in the middle of the desert. I’ve never been to Arizona but the climate is comparable to Las Vegas which I’ve been to and it does get very hot during the summer

[@clairesmyth8733]

Sounds like BS to me. Again, OSHA violation. www.osha.gov/SLTC/indoorairquality/faqs.html

[@furrtakuXD]

fallas paredes is still in full force in south texas

[@jwb52z9]

I have never heard of either of these stores.

[@ignazs.5816]

Those type of stores are filled with crap. Even kmart has better stuff. I did buy a shirt at Fallas about 13 years ago which I still have and it looks as good as when I bought it. I was just lucky. These stores are depressing and dirty. I won't miss them.

[@eblflores2109]

The fallas store in my town have the exact same problems I once saw a fresh poop in the middle of an aisle. That store is going out of business!

[@clairesmyth8733]

They should be ashamed of themselves for operating a store without air conditioning, especially in Arizona. This is not a Bikram Yoga studio. This is a low end dumpy retail store. I'll vote with my feet and stay away. There's a Fallas location in East San Jose, next to a Dollar Tree and a Grocery Outlet. I was thinking about visiting the store, but it sounds like a place to skip. Thanks again for the tour.

[@uselessDM]

Well, the one thing the story with the air conditioning tells me ist that they planed to close this store for quite some time and didn't want to spend any money on maintenence.

[@regand7830]

I wondered what happened to the Fallas stores in Los Angeles. I'd noticed some had closed permanently.

[@TiberianFiend]

All these companies use the same signage when going out of business. I wish I had invested in whoever makes those 3-4 years ago.

[@cesargarza4560]

This store was my first job when I moved to Dallas TX back in 2012 it was a good clean store people were good working and kind

[@HardRockMaster7577]

You have a good voice for radio broadcasting journalism.

[@afanofunikittyandtrolls2321]

I actually miss Factory 2 U! 😞 I remember shopping there in my pre teen years and a lot of their clothes are actually very cute and stylish. I haven't been in a Factory 2 U store or Fallas since I believe 2006? I can't believe it's been that long! 😮 DX

[@Brian_is_Not_Sus]

Fallas in Brazilian Portuguese means " to speak or to talk". Paredes means Walls as in the walls of a building. So the store name means the walls speak.

[@LikaLaruku]

Last time I saw a store in that bad of shape was a Nordstom Rack in Washington state. I half expected to see rats.

[@BendawgLJ]

A NR in poor condition? Did it close or move?!?

[@hiaa1939]

It's been awhile since I have been in wa if I'm right was it in the super mall or Seattle?

[@clairesmyth8733]

Was it in downtown Seattle?

[@champagnefreddy2108]

Wow. We had a Anna's Linens that closed a couple of years ago. Didn't know it was under the same parent company. Now the Fallas Paredes and Factory 2-U nearby are closing as well :/

[@missgurlyteengurl]

I gagged whenever you went behind the fallas store and found the pigeon parts

[@dekalb]

When I lived in Houston 20 years ago we had Weiner's all over the place. Last time I went, and checking Street View, I saw a lot of these stores got converted to Fallas-Paredes. Here in Georgia we have one Fallas store in my area and it's a bit run down but I like going there occasionally. The prices are very cheap and there's always people there. I hope it doesn't shut down.

[@carmendelcastillo7724]

My mom and dad actually worked at the fallas in Los Angeles. That's actually how they met. She has said that the quality has gone down a lo in recent years. I did shop there in the early days of the store in my town and found a top from Forever 21. The tag was whole punched so you couldn't tell what it was.

[@DanielsRetail]

I did used to go to a fallas in mesa near mesa ranch plaza & we went there a couple of times to shop but now it's abandoned

[@AdrinaMonet]

Oh my! I remember Conway! I've shopped Fallas a couple times (literally only maybe once or twice) in my life. Was there a couple weeks ago. The one I'm referring to is on Mt. Zion Rd. in Morrow, GA and it does, indeed, have a huge STORE CLOSING banner on its building.

[@mysock351C]

Reminds me of when I worked at McDonald's, and the back grill and cooking areas had no AC. Ever. Absolutely brutal there in the summer.

[@joshgarcia6637]

I think Fallas is still kicking in my hometown, Pasadena, TX. Haven’t been there in years but it was always janky, haha

[@thelazycrafter4u]

There is a Fallas near me, but it is next to a Walmart. I've shopped there a few times, but all I bought were Monster High dolls. This was when they were still popular (old desgin) and had characters the Walmart next door didn't have. I never buy clothes or textiles at Fallas.

[@newlife7246]

There's a couple of those stores were I live they look run down. Walk inside store it smell like old pizza and ass.

[@tiadavis3968]

Sad I love fallas for cheap PJ’s 😢

[@CodyBlack45]

My grandpa was the landscaper for that shipping plaza for decades. The things we’ve seen cleaning that property...

[@vincentthekeeper2163]

Not all stores are well run, they are dirty poorly staffed and poor customer service, poor stock etc. So some retail stores will and should close. With that said I cannot wait for the resurgence retail when people realize they don't always want to wait 2 to 10 days for the thing you bought, shipping back returns, etc

[@I_WANT_MY_SLAW]

That "retail resurgence" you speak of, is never ever gonna happen. I can't tell you the amount of times I've gone to a store, and asked for something, and they didn't have it. Then they tell me "well I can order it online for you, and have it delivered to the store in 2-5 days." Why would I do that, when I could've just done that online myself without going to the store? And why would I drive back to the store to pick something up, when I could just have it delivered to my door?

[@shadownumber2067]

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW And half the time, the employees are completely incompetent and useless. They have no clue what or where anything is. You ask for something, and they have no clue what it is. And I have to search for it *on my phone* just to show them what it is I'm talking about. And then they will have no clue where it would be located on the store, and they say "check in aisle 3, we might have it there." Or sometimes they'll just say "we dont have it" because they're too lazy to go in back, and check to see if they have any. And not to mention the lines. For retail stores that are supposedly "suffering so greatly" they always seems to have a long line. There could be literally nobody shopping in the store when I walk in, I grab my item I want to buy, and then suddenly, there's a line of 15 people at checkout that just magically formed. Shopping retail it's really just a waste of time. Ordering online is so much easier.

[@AccessoriesAddict5528]

That'll NEVER happen. I can shop from the comfort of my own home, (my own bed even!), comparison shop, read reviews, not deal with driving, parking, other customers, understocked shelves, waiting in line, rude and incompetent customer service and have everything delivered to my front door. RIP retail shopping!!! ⚰

[@joeybaseball7352]

It's not gonna happen Vinny. Time to give up the dream. There was never a time when people loved shopping retail. They did it because they had to. Online shopping didn't exist. So the only way to get a new toaster was to go to the store, and buy it. You're living in a pipe dream if you think people years from now will say, "Hey, remember when I had to get dressed, drive 20 miles out of my way, deal with large crowds, and wait in long lines? I should go back to doing that!"

[@steeldriver5338]

@@joeybaseball7352 That's not entirely true. Malls were a great hang out spot, for example, and there are many that still are. There's also women who enjoy "shopping sprees." Why, I do not know.

[@TiffanyinOklahoma]

The Fallas close to me reminds me of a messy dollar general ALL the time. It's such a mess, even the bathrooms are closed off and filled with clothing.

[@WestleyWolf]

I miss this place. imo i still think this was better than Ross Stores i used to go to one back in 2005. (P.S. I've never seen a location this bad before.)

[@acemace3618]

Why do all their store names sound so sexual?

[@ydmf2]

Lol! I shop at Phallus...

[@overlookers]

It was probably a family name. Fallas is a French surname related to _Falaise,_ French for "cliff" and the commune of the same name in Normandy.

[@carmendelcastillo7724]

I used to shop at Fallas and factory 2 u. When you are poor you do what you got to do. I havent been there in a while because I just never think to go and I found pants I like elsewhere. But yeah it's sad how much in disrepair these store are in.

[@KelleyM462]

Carmen Del Castillo I worked at Factory 2 U back in 2001 as a stock clerk. I actually enjoyed it!

[@misterhat5823]

Makes Dollar General look clean.

[@dracyoola]

OSHA has come to my place of work before. Twice. Nothing that was reported to them has been changed yet. Go figure.

[@Sparky871]

I dont know why anybody would ever shop at these stores when you can get better quality stuff for the same price or less when you catch sales at the mall or online like last week I went to Old Navy and bought my niece three t shirts for $3 each and they are good quality and look good too. I always buy good quality clothes when they are on sale only and never pay full retail price.

[@01anyanka]

Wow, I grew up in the Islands in Gilbert really close to that Chandler Factory 2 U. My mom use to drag me in their back in the 90s. I hated that store back then. Lol! Didn’t know they were still in business!

[@abchinow]

the store condition reminds me of the Grantstone Supermarket in Tucson, which always has people in the stores buying products

[@y0urs03pic]

There's Like 8-9 Fallas Here In El Paso.. Three's Even One Not Too Far From Inter-Border About 2 1/2 Miles... Also My Mom Used To For Farrah's...

[@clairesmyth8733]

I've seen these stores in the SF bay area. I went to a Factory 2U store once, was unimpressed. There's a Fallas store over in East San Jose on Capitol Avenue (near a Dollar Tree, and Grocery Outlet). It looks like a DD's Discounts. DD's is Ross Store's lower tier store, selling the apparel and merchandise that Ross buyers passed up for better quality goods. This likely won't be a destination. Thanks for the video. You have saved me a trip.

[@andS7]

I have a coworker who still works at one of these here in LA.

[@thevacdude]

Gross, I'd die in that place. Thanks for the tour.

[@anotherhuman8211]

I remember Factory 2-U(the one that the air conditioning incident) it being crowded and a kind of trashy older feel to it

[@raymondgunter2945]

They opened a Fallas near me late in 2017 in what had been a K-Mart and late August or early September they put going out of business signs up. They were gone less then three weeks later. I only shopped there once and give me flash backs to an old McCrory's my parents visited way way back when. And for a new store it looked clean till you got close enough and just did not feel clean.

[@JayMBeeMe]

This store (Fallas) used to be Conway here in the NYC area. Conway was around for years before being bought out. Now I go to Lot-Less or Jack's lol.

[@jackiectl]

I remember going there all the time and buy a lot of Bratz merch so much nostalgia!!

[@DavidAbyssal]

Fallas translate to spanish to Fails, Mistakes... Pretty much accurate to that horrible store...

[@apena4170]

They're all like that I've gone to these stores since I've been younger and I can say that I've only seen one Fallas get a remodeling and all the others stayed they same all dirty and cheap products thrown about. Same with Factory 2-U.

[@Kevin93til]

Factory 2 U on Florin in Sac. Never even knew what it was until seeing this video.

[@ModestoAbandoned]

Dang that store is disgusting

[@angelica3744]

I cannot believe those Christmas shirts. Wtf were they thinking? “They advertised hot items” Cuts to clip of a sign reading Girls.

[@Sparky871]

I used to live close by the factory 2 U as well on Alma School and Galveston and have been there a couple of times looking at this store and its cheap looking clothes is pretty depressing

[@cuatesanz5611]

5:48 the heat gun 🔫 was lit 🔥.

[@bernlin2000]

Binge-watching "retail closure" video makes you realize just how wasteful Western society is...so much cheap, plastic crap, just clogging up glorified homeless shelters...depressing. I don't think this was the dream of the 20th century, for the 21st.

[@EfrainQuezada]

My first memory of factory 2u is being 6 years old waiting on my mom to not find anything, get bored and run off to the toy section, not paying attention x and instantly running straight into a pillar with mirrors attached to it in the middle a of the aisle.

[@sonnydacuse7622]

Fallas is a Mexican version of Factory 2 U

[@Musashiden]

I think is a middle eastern brand. I did some art for them here in Puerto Rico the people who commissioned it were Arabic.

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

@@Musashiden well that makes sense then.

[@josephtafur]

My aunt loves shopping at Fallas. I never knew the company that owns Factory 2-U owned Fallas and i also didn't know they had flied Chapter 11 bankrupcey, Factory 2-U use to have a store at Sunrise Mall, it closed years ago. We have 2 Fallas's stores here in Corpus, 1 on Ayres Street and 1 in Flower Bluff. The one on Ayres Street is among the fallas stores Closing i don't know about the Flower Bluff location

[@drummingducks22]

I grew up getting all my clothes at Fallas Peredes and Factory 2-U, I have not been there in years though. My biggest complaint from back then was the lack of a dressing room.

[@depressedlemon6349]

ahhh i remember going to fallas paredes so much as a kid lol. i couldn't even believe someone was making a video about it! had no idea it was such a large chain of stores.

[@mormand5003]

When I was little my mom occassionally went to Fallas back when it was a Weiner's. We used to shop at Factory 2 U when it was MacFrugals

[@clairesmyth8733]

I thought MacFrugal's was the fore-runner to Big Lots. Previous to MacFrugal's it was called Pic-And-Save.

[@mormand5003]

@@clairesmyth8733 Most of the MacFrugals here were sold to Fallas but we already had big lots when MacFrugals closed so it might be a regional thing like JCPenney sold Eckerds of Texas to CVS and the rest to RiteAid

[@nat_the_gray]

So they own stores called both "Fallas" and "Weiners"?? That can't be an accident.

[@actualdavidhenry]

My nephew worked security for Fallas. For Black Friday there slogan was it's always Black Friday here.

[@M50A1]

I have so many memories of Fallas

[@MichaelMangi]

My parents used to shop at Factory 2-U. It's sad to see they went this far downhill. That store space is going to need a complete rip it down to the studs remodel for the next tenant.

[@MyDreamIsAStory]

This store looks like it got stuck in the 90s and in a good way.

[@deannalopez8874]

The one here in Corpus allowed you to fill up a big Fallas store bag for $5 each. Whatever you can fit haha .. I missed it. Kinda glad cause it was like black Friday madness. This is when they we're closing. The last few days.. anything to make some kinda money right... Gosh.

[@Yo_soy_Annna]

I didn't know they were closing until I saw your video. I went over there yesterday and bought some $2 shirts.

[@kimmyymmik]

Wow I remember factory 2 u but fallas was bigger where I grew up, (las cruces and El Paso) because there’s a lot of Hispanic people or even juarenses (Mexican people) who cross the border just to shop at these places since it’s so cheap compared to Mexico.