Joan Verdon / The Seattle Times – The experts who keep track of store openings and closings have been forecasting for more than a decade that the day was coming when American retailers would have to pay for building way too many stores. That day of reckoning, some say, has arrived, with one retail watcher […]
Jeff Green
More stores likely to be shuttered
Joan Verdon / The Columbus Dispatch – The experts who keep track of store openings and closings have been forecasting for more than a decade that the day was coming when American retailers would have to pay for building far too many stores. That day of reckoning, some say, has arrived, with one retail watcher […]
How the least-loyal generation is shaping retail
Kelli B. Grant / CNBC – Companies marketing to millennials have found doing business with this generation is no easy feat. New survey data from Pew Research Center may offer some insight into why: These consumers are markedly different than previous generations. Millennials, whose ages range from 18 to 33 in 2014, are America’s most […]
“Tsunami” of store closings predicted for U.S. retailers
Joan Verdon MCT / Miami Herald – The experts who keep track of store openings and closings have been forecasting for more than a decade that the day was coming when American retailers would have to pay for building way too many stores. That day of reckoning, some say, has arrived, with one retail watcher […]
Nationwide wave of store closings grows
The experts who keep track of store openings and closings have been forecasting for more than a decade that the day was coming when American retailers would have to pay for building far too many stores.
That day of reckoning, some say, has arrived, with one retail watcher predicting a “tsunami” of store closings this year.
Michigan Rising?
The Midwest is always a fascinating case study, but Michigan in particular presents some interesting food for thought. On a whole, the state doesn’t have to deal with some of the overcrowding and store closure issues we are seeing in other markets. A large part of that has to do with its underwhelming growth post-9/11 […]
