Posted on 12/31/2023 9:03:00 AM PST by CFW
Major retailers have experienced a wave of store closures in 2023, an 80% surge from the year prior, Coresight Research reports.
The top reasons include bankruptcy of one major chain and some stores just not performing well in certain areas. The continued growth of online shopping is another factor, and other retailers said that theft is a major reason for their decision to close some stores, according to CBS News.
When Bed Bath & Beyond filed for bankruptcy in April, it led to the closure of 866 stores, a Coresight report finds. The second largest number of closed stores was from Tuesday Morning, with 463 closures. U.S. retailers closed down more than 4,600 stores altogether in 2023.
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> If you had talked about looking for a tie clip out loud I am surprised your smart phone didn’t Offer you several places to purchase one. <
I keep my cell phone off until I need to make a call. And now and again I’ll check it for messages. Then off it goes again.
I’m not important enough that someone might need to reach me immediately.
🙂
point of order, Bed Bath & Beyond did it to itself...
Amazon lockers work great.
I’ve used them sometimes.
Amazon has about a 95 percent success rate with me.
My local Barnes And Noble is closing today.
I haven’t been in there in many years.
I’ve used Amazon lockers a few times, too. They work great. What a concept, too! Pure genius.
A cheaper alternative to the little used and ever pricey UPS store mailbox.
My UPS store was great but I got to the point I never used it.
Remember way back when and Amazon was nothing but another on-line book seller? Bezos launched Amazon as a bookselling site in 1994 when bookstore chains such as Barnes & Noble, Waldenbooks and Crown Books were everywhere.
“Who needs an online bookstore? We have Barnes & Noble close to us!”
Almost THIRTY years ago. Wow.
Amazon says my first order was “Island of the Blue Dolphins” by Scott O’Dell on June 27, 2000. I’m surprised I waited until Amazon was six years old to place my first order.
Mine doesn’t. I turned everything off.
I use Brave and ghosteryi do not use apps I go to websites.
No website. Not my business.
I bought a ton of books from Amazon in the early days.
They had everything—including obscure books from Britain and Australia.
Local bookstores could not come close to competing on price or availability.
The only thing that opens here is take out and resturaunts and the inevitable breweries.
“They had everything”
I was in optical communications at the time and most of my earliest purchases in 2000 were technical books. Stanford University had an excellent bookstore (with a huge engineering section) in downtown Palo Alto at the time, but even they could not match the selection at Amazon.
I use alibris.com for books. A worldwide consortium of used book stores.
Very good
Amazon electronic gift cards are easy to order too .
Great company .
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How many women’s clothing stores do you need….
How many were in black areas due to shoplifting/looting?
Maybe the bug rations will be on auto-delivery.
I guess that solves their staff’s unlikeability problem.
I guess that solves their staff’s unlikeability problem.
The one I went to the only staff I ever saw was at check out.
They were stupid overpriced anyway and not much there I couldn’t find at Walmart cheaper.
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