20 Companies That Simply Must Be Fronts for Organized Crime

Not to get all X-Files on you, but what if we’ve already been visited by extraterrestrial life? They just landed at a shopping mall, concluded that we’d recently suffered an extinction-level event, and quietly flew away, checking us off their list of possible planet friends. It wouldn’t be unreasonable of them. Thanks to COVID and the great online migration, walking around just about any shopping center is like surveying the aftermath of a war zone, all hollowed-out trenches and scatterings of dirty, dazed people who almost certainly don’t know where they are.

But somehow, a lot of those companies that you probably assumed went down when the economic A-bomb dropped are still hanging on. Some of them never relied on brick-and-mortar business to begin with, but you don’t know how they’re still getting customers now that Amazon-Netflix-Ticketmaster has crushed everyone else. Some of them are so laughably outdated that they’re definitely just fronts for the mafia. 

In fact, they all came up when user Square-Floor8879 asked r/AskReddit, “What company has you shocked that they have not yet gone out of business?”