It looks like 2025 will be yet another year with many more stores closing than opening. In a report released last week, Coresight Research analysts said they expect about 15,000 U.S. stores to close, ...

Hundreds of well-known retail chains have announced store closures in 2026, and analysts say the wave isn't slowing down. According to Business Insider, more than 2,000 closures have already been ...

It’s finally happening. After months of speculation, bankruptcy filings, and the closure of a smattering of stores, Joann is shuttering all of its locations. Soon, the craft and fabrics retailer will ...

Research on purchases of everyday essentials, however, suggests that brick-and-mortar retail proved much more resilient than those warnings implied. Between 2004 and 2019, Uyen Tran of Arizona State ...

Despite the dramatic headlines portraying retail as a dying industry, sales are actually up overall, growing $121.5 billion in the first seven months of 2017. That’s just one of the facts research and ...

WWD and Placer.ai’s Retail & Apparel Trends: 2025 Outlook webinar last week zeroed in on some key points that revealed that the so-called “retail apocalypse” was a fallacy, and that it’s more of a ...

Among the more common economic tropes of the last 15 years has been the U.S. “retail apocalypse.” Giant e-commerce companies, so the story goes, have killed traditional brick-and-mortar establishments ...