Service Merchandise ad with Bill Cosby (Early 90s)

[SaM5246iPhone]

god damn I hated that store, glad it's out of business, it was stupid, no wonder they couldn't stay in business

[FightingCocksRugby]

@kornpony I worked there with ya, ya prick. Please dial extension 1111111111111malfunction....I'­m a robot.

[kornpony]

I worked at service merchandise from age 15 to 20. they were some boat times in wharehouse!

[mattador2792]

I used to have two in my area. One in Fishkill and one in Wappinger Falls.

[son0fearth]

Service Merchandise was where the rich people from Robocop shopped.

[MsJaediva]

this store use to be the shit!!!



[hailtothejedi]

Best retailer ever!

I used to go there when I lived in Mobile, Alabama in the '90s. I believe it closed down in 1998.

[jlucydaisuke]

Both of my parents worked there for years... I have very fond memories of Service Merchandise :)

[crazyromanian1]

@jlucydaisuke I remember getting your order back in customer service as it came off the conveyor belt system they had. Think I still have some funky TV trays I bought there.  Great memories!!!

[Novakane487]

Its weird that Service Merchandise and all these other old stores that went under have been resurrected as online stores. Its almost like they are ghosts.

[kaos3124]

Anybody remember when they sold guns?



[GarBagePaiLkidS1]

Ahhh The gift registry. The little computer just sitting in the store....as a kid I must have entered about 100 different names and sent out advertisements and catalogs to different people. But those people would receive it with names like, "BoogerHead Williams" "JohnCockyHead".........GIMME A BREAK I WAS 9

[SeeGraeginatorRun]

i miss that store

[ihatetaft]

never had one in Cali, but it seems like it was a neat store!

[jjgfx]

There was at least 2 in California, one in Newark, one in Hayward and probably all over the state. As they started to decline towards bankruptcy, many of them were closed down.

[ihatetaft]

I lived in Bakersfield, which is central Cali!

[856956sinewavetones]

Bill Cosby is wearing the same outfit that he wor on the Jello Pudding Pops Commercial of 1980s (The one about his hands sharing the pudding pop which made people give the wrong idea of blowjobs).

[Animainiac85]

This store was awesome. Miss it.

[PhilM662]

agreed, I never knew of any other store like service merchandise

[reitelle]

my mom still has her boombox (and it works) that she bought from the service merchandise (that still stands) in swansea massachusetts

[FIXTREME]

I know that place :) knew about it since a little kid in the 90's...is it still service?

[reitelle]

i dont think so, i went up there in 07' (i live in florida now) and the parking lot was empty

[Joe402]

I bought my Super Game Boy here.

[taledarkside]

Loved the place.

I remember there was some other store that cloned service merchandise. I can't recall the name.

[yellowdiva21]

I remember My dad getting christmas gifts from service merchandise...good times good times

[pannoni1]

Calling that number you see at the end? You will instead be deferred to another number to meet new people. :(

[whattheheck1000]

I remember that store well. I went there fairly often and it looked very ornate. I enjoyed going there as a small child and liked to look around while my parents shopped. We bought a lot of furniture there. My birth certificate (I was born in 1992) currently sits in a cabinet that was bought there. My grandfather worked there as his last job (when he was semi-retired).

RIP Service Merchandise, 1934-2002

Closed in my area 2001

[whocaresnow2]

Dude you were born in '92 and youre reminising about this old store. WOW. Service Merchandise reached its peek around the year you were born. I bought my first PC Service Merchandise in Summer of 1993. It was a 486 25mhz, and was considered super fast at the time. We bought a computer desk, book shelf and chair at the same time. By the 1996-1997 they started to cut back on electronics at Service Merchandie, then eventually discontinued the department all together focusing mainly on Jewelry

[frank197594]

Wow, Service Merchandise closed in my area in the early 1990's. Where it used to stand is now a Best Buy. I forgot about this company until an old ad I saw while I was watching a movie taped on vhs :)

[DarkSkyProductions]

I can relate. My mom worked there while she was pregnant with me. I was born in '89 I remember when I used to go there as a tiny kid and my mom would see people she used to work with.

[buffalocrotch]

I remember this store from the 70's and early 80's, I thought they went out of business in the 80's. It was a great store, really loved to buy stuff there, when I lived in the Chicago area.

[MrIvalice]

@whattheheck1000 I too remember that store from visits as a child (Born 1991) i remember going to my local store when it went out of business and lechmere and montgomery ward and ames and bradlees and...well the list goes on. Defunct Store Chain Commertials and vacant stores creep me the hell out....i don't know why tho.

[shell2374]

My mom took me and my brother when we were little and we would play on the swingsets they had outside....awesome!

[ryanx27]

Damn.. that takes me back.

[byost83]

i miss that place....

[PearlJammer07]

I remeber that store haha. I went there a few times with my mom to get some toys.

[marcynkeesfnct]

Another Great Store. R.I.P.

[CSIxxTwee]

Oh my god, I miss Service Merchandise!!! The last time I was in one was in '99 I believe. I remember buying all of my Power Ranger Zords at Service Merchandise.

[damusician]

i remember that store!