Retail is dead — at least it is supposed to be. E-commerce had already beaten the sector down when the pandemic drove the final nail into its coffin. Consumers who could no longer shop at the mall ...

Amazon is having a massive effect on the Retail Landscape of the US. The "Retail Apocalypse" meme has run amok and is throwing up all kinds of interesting value opportunities. Common sense indicates ...

A wave of department store closures could hit in 2023, according to UBS analysts. Sales are stalling in 2022, but department store closures have stayed flat since early 2021. Analysts predict ...

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 ...

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, ...

These days, it seems like familiar stores are closing left and right. Some experts are saying that this is part of a “retail apocalypse.” And more than 15,000 stores — many of which are popular brands ...

Not long ago, the future of brick-and-mortar stores looked dicey. The rise of e-commerce, combined with COVID-19, threatened to gut Main Street business districts. Merchants were urged to prepare for ...

The World Economic Forum noted that COVID-19 was spreading as early as December of 2019. When it exploded onto the news in early 2020, economic pundits weren't paying it much notice. It was, after all ...

The repeated warning for the past five years has been that a retail apocalypse was upon us and that physical stores were now obsolete. The facts simply do not bear this dismal prediction out. In fact, ...