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One year after the bankruptcy, Tom Peterson returned to television in the fall of 1992, now with Gloria too. They

Soon after the bankruptcy, a series of Peterson ads was released that didn’t end with “Happy place to buy” or

The loss of Super Stores meant all the material in them had to go. These ads were captured on September

A re-edit of the ad posted here, only with all references to Super Stores removed.

Eventually, the tragic news broke. Here are snips from two news reports covering the collapse of Tom Peterson’s Super Stores

These are the last Super Stores ads that ran before the bankruptcy announcement. In one of them Tom just mentions

The second half of the four ads produced during one of the Super Stores’ last weekends. The final ad is

By now it was clear Tom wasn’t getting the business bump he needed to survive this risky venture. So he

Note that the famed Tom Peterson Watch is now a “Super Watch.” If this venture had been a success, Tom