What We’re Reading

The Sears/Kmart Great Disappearing Act Will Reduce Store Count To Just 60

Bankruptcy Filings Are Mounting. And That’s Just The Tip Of The Iceberg

What’s in a Flagship?

Gap closing stores isn’t really news. The apparel retailer has been closing hundreds as it works to build back its brand, grow its e-commerce and get away from the mall. The company just announced yet more will shut down this year and next. But closing its flagship in hometown San Francisco, near the touristy Union […]

The Two Men Buying Your Favorite Retailers

It has been a prolonged period of retail carnage: storied names declaring bankruptcy, mass market brands closing thousands of stores, tens of thousands of shop employees furloughed or laid off, garment workers in dire straits. More ominous still are the predictions that we will never shop the same way again. For Jamie Salter and David […]

Bankrupt Retailers Face A New Hurdle: Getting Rid Of Inventory

The nation’s brick-and-mortar retailers were undergoing a reckoning years before the pandemic led to shutdowns and a tanking economy, tipping more than a dozen major retailers into bankruptcy and prompting many others to thin their ranks. The result: Thousands of liquidation sales, at a time when many Americans are wary of in-store shopping or spending. […]