There are now over 3,300 retail stores closed or closing soon in the U.S.. When you add chain stores that have closed since 2014 and those scheduled to close by 2020, the number is at least 5,233. And that's if we DON'T have a recession and the economy strengthens. Here are a couple of key articles about what's happening:
Clark Howard's latest list of store closings.
The Harsh Reality of Shopping Malls- clark.com
Retail's "bigger problem hiding"- Business Insider 4/13/2017
There are over 220 mores more stores closing on this list that I didn't count above...
The Retail Apocalypse has Officially Descended on America- Business Insider 3/21/2017
The online version of my zine: 43 ideas to reuse Dead Malls
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