Companies that will not exist in 10 years

BK

JustGoWithItKmart

I just went to one the other day. The store is a shitty version of walmart. Though they did have a great in store pickup deal on a PS3 controller. Sony PS3 controllers are usually 55-60 bucks. They had one for $17 if you pick it up in store.

cobra_commanderUBS

Why do you think UBS will be gone? They're one of the largest banks in the world. They are the largest wealth management bank of any global bank.

NotGhoodBlackBerry

You can't kill BlackBerry. BlackBerry is the "45 year old over worked businessman" Terminator of the Tech industry.

cobra_commanderSmall time:
Icelantic, J skis, Saga, Jiberish

Apple, not gone, but dying

Facebook will be Unrecognizable
Twitter will be gone
United Airlines

Potentially Amazon,

The Republican Party.

UBS

Most of your local ski shops, but not for the reason you think.

Oregon Football!

I buy so much stuff off Amazon, it could probably stay in business with just me.

theabortionatorI HOPE TO GOD THAT SUBWAY BITES THE MOTHERFUCKING DUST

You could put that store next to a world renown sub shop and it would run them out of business. Even if the sub shop has comparable prices.

People are all "OH MY GOD! I LOVE GETTING NO MEAT AND BROWN VEGGIES" "BUT LIKE IT HAS SUB IN THE NAME SO IT MUST BE GOOD" ""I LOVE PAYING ALMOST REGULAR PRICE FOR FAST FOOD QUALITY"

Every time a new one opens I die a little inside. I wish a halfway decent company, even selling out and losing some quality would start to chain out. Put sub in their name or something to stay in business. Offer subs that don't suck. They could have an option for "poverty subs" or something where they put no meat on there like subway and do it for 5 bucks.

How the fuck that place is as big as it is amazes me. I can understand stopping by one on a trip because it's there and maybe a better option than mcdonalds but when people straight pass up on an epic sub to pay the same fucking price for one of the worst it blows my mind.


/rant

PS: HEY SUBWAY FUCK YOU

Agreed. I never eat at Subway if another option is available, it's just not good food. I can make a better toasted sub at home in my toaster oven for a quarter of the price in the same amount of time or less.

I don't know how Kmart still is open. I've never seen a Kmart parking lot more than 5% full.

theBearJewWhy do you think UBS will be gone? They're one of the largest banks in the world. They are the largest wealth management bank of any global bank.

They're not going anywhere. You could have made that claim with some credence back in 07 during the GFC seeing they had the largest Write-downs because they were packaging such large volume of assets in MBS/CDO's, allowing them to push their leverage beyond the stand risk measures without any red flags going off. So when the subprimes caused the bubble to pop, their losses where about 40% of their total Market Cap. Their capital position was also looking more unstable as the SNB were unwilling to offer an initial capital injection. However, GIC invested $10b - which was a shit investment as the loan to equity coversion netted a 70% loss of value - until the SNB came to the rescue.

There is also the current UBS restructuring to move to a holding company: UBS Group AG. But this is just to minimise risk and to comply to Swiss 2011 regulations on capital and liquiduty requiring banks to hold capital equal to 20% of RWA. No cause for concern.

UBS is also the largest holder of private wealth in the world with AuM of nearly $2tr. UBS Wealth Management is the finest in the world, and there's always murmurs that UBS will split-up and allow UBS-WM to go out on it's own. But with the new restructuring and holding company that's highly unlikely.

toastyteenagersthe rest of kodak

Also besides as being ruled by NS at that point according to my previous post:

Kodak will still exist, but slimmed down even more then today, after the massive reorganisation they are now back in profit. Tri-X is still the the most popular film and there will always be a market for film albeit very much reduced from the heyday of the late 90's. Kodak has the fabrication plants, methods, patents, chemical production.

They will exist, only in a more slimmed down form then today.

Surprised no one has mentioned pay-phones

Alibaba did $9.5B in a day earlier this year, and already controls the worlds largest group and fastest growing group of consumers. Alibaba will be doing the taking over.

UBS I just have a feeling.

Apple would have been all but dead without Steve Jobs, and with out him I doubt they will be the 'first to bring' the new product that is different (iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc) that kept them alive. other companies are coming to play, and will likely do better. In the early 90s everyone used Mac, by the late 90s no one did.

i think skullcandy is most certainly on the way out right now. they filed for an IPO a few years back and didn't really do much since.