Basically, the company had to pay for its own buyout when private equity firms KKL, Vornado, and Bain bought the company for $6.6 billion, mostly with loans.

Because the company then had to pay off those extreme loans, they were forced to sell off their assets and property, which they leased back from the very private equity firms that now owned them.

The same thing happened more recently with Red Lobster and JoAnn Fabrics.

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      Target ended up getting the rights to the brand didn’t they?

      What happened to Babies 'R Us? The one near me where we registered for our oldest got turned into a trampoline park. We took him there for his 9th birthday a couple weeks ago.