Retail Tsunami: 16 Major Chains Closing More Stores

This is just the Change 0bammy and his cronies Hoped for...

Yes, the international corporate cabal that is pushing for this one-world fascist system is where the blame belongs.

That's PUNny!!

Yah, well they are fabricating so much credit to keep all the balls in the air they are likely to drown in it.

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Welcome folks to 3rd World America! It used to be the land of the free but now it is the home of the slave. Enjoy your stay!

This is not good for jobs, etc, but if you look at that list, there's a bunch of really shitty retail stores in there. Staples is consistently too expensive, radio shack gouges you on items. Look, I need this electronic part today, so I'll pay a premium. Oh don't have it in stock, sorry, I'll order myself. Oh, you want 6x the cost, I guess I'll just wait then. K Mart's literally smell, etc etc. This is bad retail getting trimmed off in bad economic times.

In some places, yes. However, this won't be possible for many areas, particularly urban areas.

Darden serves bad foor and treats its employees really badly. I hope they all go out of business. That's actually the way its supposed to work.

The stay won't be long my friend if we get to that point. But we're headed there for sure

the collapse is accelerating.

You can see it in their eyes as they realize the jobs ~ the white collar, engineering, blue collar manufacturing, marketing ~ the jobs that left beginning in the 80s and into the 90s ~ were replaced with the service sector jobs ~ retail, restaurants, and other unsustainable band-aids. now the malls are closing ~ the restaurants too.

You can see it in the dead eyes as people realize it isnt coming back. its over.

America has been fundamentally changed.

Not all of these companies do business in my area, so not familiar with all of them. However, of the ones that do, I can honestly say I'm not surprised they are closing. Poor customer service, over-priced, poor-quality....I could go on.

Are you from Delaware, Beeches?
I'm from "slower-lower" myself.
Though it was almost unreported in the media here, Wilmi-trust took 234 million from TARP--the honchos had all gotten, themselves, and approved for their cronies, big real estate loans on properties that were bubble-priced and the loan-takers were under water on.
They issued a lot of bad "commercial paper" too.
My sister-in-law is a teller there.
There is no recovery here in slower-lower--at the pharmacy, everyone in line is paying 50c copays--you know what that means--Medicaid--even the white folks--they apparently can still afford tattoos. And at the grocery store everbody but me apparently has a magic-money "Delaware" card--and those SNAPheads have full carts with pricey stuff I can't afford to buy in them

BUNCH OF FAST FOOD COMPANIES GOING DOWN CHECK OUT RALLYS AND CHECKERS..

THIS. These idiots give every president too much credit. They are the fools that think the presidents have actual power.

It really is sad , for us that do what is right and bust our asses everday to provided a good way of life for our families.....it's sad. Evil is rising, we were warned long ago

These stores suck any way .

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HERE ARE A FEW MORE FOR YOU IF YOU WANT TO SEE HOW BAD THINGS REALLY ARE..

Complete List of U.S. Retailers Closing Stores, Going, Bankrupt, and Going Out of Business in 2014:

1100 Radio Shack

360 Dots

300 Blockbuster

300 Sears

225 Staples (through 2015)

223 Barnes & Noble (through 2023)

180 Abercrombie & Fitch (by 2015)

175 Aeropostale (“over the next several years”)

170 Jones Group (by mid-2014 )

155 Sbarro

145 Brown Shoes / Famous Footwear

128 GameStop

125 Children’s Place

91 Blockbuster (UK)

80 Family Dollar

76 EE

76 Walgreens

74 McDonald's (Japan)

73 Liquidation World (Big Lots Canada)

63 Build-A-Bear (through 2014)

55 Sprint

50 Kitchen Collection

42 Edwin Watts Golf

42 Fresh & Green's

39 Loehman's

33 Archiver's

33 JCPenney

26 Albertson's

26 Wet Seal

25 Build-A-Bear (through 2015)

25 Yankee One Dollar Stores

20 Barnes & Noble

20 Delhaize

20 Gilly Hicks

20 SONY

18 ALCO

17 Cato

15 Office Depot

12 Target

11 American TV & Appliance

7 Noni B

7 OfficeMax

6 Cord Camera

5 Bi-Lo

5 Macy's

4 Len Druskin

4 Meat House

4 Sprint Gas Stations

3 ACO Hardware

3 Books-A-Million

3 Champps Americana

3 Williams-Sonoma

2 Arden B

2 Best Buy

2 Finger Furniture

2 Haverty’s

2 JMR Chalk Garden

2 Kroger

2 Lolabella Boutique

2 My Favorite Toy Store

2 Nordstrom

2 Powell’s Books

2 Rainbow Foods

As much as I agree with you, people are not idiots, they have been fooled and told lies from birth.....it's our job to inform them, like we were informed

And a partridge in a pear tree

The USELESS EATERS had better start stocking up on vaseline and burial plots because Agenda 21 is kicking into hyperdrive.........Too many people and all useless bullshit "service sector" jobs means elimination time is finally at hand!

ARE YOU FREAKING OUT YET... ARE YOU FIGURING IT OUT YET?

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

11And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

Very true. I voted for Kerry before Bush got his second term. First and only time I ever voted.

Not possible, Dear Leader singlehandedly created almost 200000 jobs in the last month alone!!

First off, Amazon has created a model for most businesses in this country that online retailing is the wave of the future.
What most people are not seeing is the businesses that are closing the old brick and mortar in favor of supply chain distribution.
The cost of having the old type stores vs that of an online retailing business where several middle management and minimum wage earning jobs are going by the way side in favor of low wage warehouse workers who are not involved in a union and individual with a more technical background in efficiency are being hired to replace those who worked in the stores.
There is a huge savings by shutting down these store aside from the cost involved in paying rent or taxes on a property they own.
I am sure that the NHCA has a major influence in many of the jobs being eliminated.
Now, Ralphs and a few other grocery stores that are closing their doors have as much to do with Unions as they do with the areas that they are located in.
I read a story a few years ago that many of the inner city grocery stores are plagued by loss due to theft, both employee and consumer. Yet local leaders in these communities had advocated that these corporations were discriminating against the poor and minorities because they wouldn't leave them open, thus forcing individuals to head to the suburbs to purchase many of the same products at higher prices.
When they asked leaders of the Black community here In Pittsburgh to purchase the store in their community and run it, not one was willing to do so. So it shutdown. Giant Eagle was willing to forgo the franchise fee and still nothing.
Barnes and Nobles can sell books online through their nook or apple products and its just as easy to ship the books to individuals vs having a store stock supplies and run coffee shops.
Sears/Kmart, Loehmanns, Quiznos,JCPenny and Toys R Us are just poorly managed companies.
Sears/KMart-JCPenny have never been able to make the jump from Middle Class shopper to today's version of Middle Class Shopper and there is a difference.
Staples-Office Depot/Office Max grew too fast
Radio Shack could have been a Best Buy type company in the 1990's but got bogged down by selling trinkets and specialty products versus seeing the big picture of where the electronic markets along with video games and televisions were going.
So, its not all economics as much as it is the way businesses are doing business today.
Retailers are will thrive under the new model with the exception of the older stores with an older customer base.
If I were a market man, I'd be buying into companies that deal in the transportation sector, FEDEX, Railroads, ect. Those are going to be the companies that will gain in this new electronic economy.

What's the vaseline for?