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Check out your favorite stores from the '90s that are closed today. From The Limited to Wet Seal, these stores were staples at every mall in the 1990s.
This budget-friendly women's apparel retailer used to be a familiar sight at strip malls across the country and had more than 1,200 stores at its peak in the late '90s. In 2012, stores were closed ...
Florsheim – mall shoe store; still sells online; Gadzooks – Founded in 1983 as a T-shirt store, Gadzooks grew to a 250-store mall fashion retailer before making an ill-advised decision to discontinue menswear. The company was purchased by competitor Forever 21 out of bankruptcy in 2005, with its stores either closed or converted to F21 formats.
After changing its name to Tween Brands in 2006 and shuttering or rebranding most locations a few years later, Blue Alliance acquired the name Limited Too and relaunched almost 200 stores in 2016.
Claire's filed for bankruptcy on March 19, 2018, and closed 92 stores in the process. [95] It emerged from bankruptcy in October. [96] Coldwater Creek closed all stores in 2014 and became an online-only retailer operated by Sycamore Partners [97] until a new store opened in Burlington, Massachusetts in early 2018. [98]
Research published by global retail analyst IHL Group in 2019 suggests that the so-called retail apocalypse narrative was an exaggeration, with "more chains that are expanding their number of stores than closing stores.” [7] That year, retailers in the United States announced 9,302 store closings, a 59% jump from 2018, and the highest number ...
Woolworth's, Grant's, and McCrory's may be gone, but the history of five-and-dime stores is still alive at locations across the country.
Here are companies that have temporarily closed their brick-and-mortar stores to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. Coronavirus closures: These stores temporarily shut their doors Skip to ...