BALTIMORE — Customers who ventured into Rite Aid at Gittings Marketplace in North Baltimore during its final week in mid-June found a shuttered pharmacy, empty refrigerator cases and an assortment of ...

The death of American retail has been greatly exaggerated. While thousands of retail outlets have closed their doors across the US in recent years, a very different story is unfolding in a different ...

For a supposedly dying industry, it’s startling to know that between 2020 and 2025 – pandemic lockdowns and all – California ...

It’s finally happening. After months of speculation, bankruptcy filings, and the closure of a smattering of stores, Joann is shuttering all of its locations. Soon, the craft and fabrics retailer will ...

Retail is dead — at least it is supposed to be. E-commerce had already beaten the sector down when the pandemic drove the final nail into its coffin. Consumers who could no longer shop at the mall ...

Democrats should show what a “Save America Act” really means, while not standing in the way of the benefits of AI. Artificial intelligence is increasing in capacity and usage at an astounding rate.

Yet as bad as 2024 was when it came to retailer closures, 2025 is expected to be much, much worse, according to a report out from Coresight Research. How bad, you ask? Last year saw the most U.S.

T.J. Maxx in lower Manhattan is buzzing during lunch hour. Cally Connelly is on her break, combing through racks of clothes. “I guess I’m a shopaholic, so I’m at T.J. Maxx just looking around, not for ...

WWD and Placer.ai’s Retail & Apparel Trends: 2025 Outlook webinar last week zeroed in on some key points that revealed that the so-called “retail apocalypse” was a fallacy, and that it’s more of a ...

Among the more common economic tropes of the last 15 years has been the U.S. “retail apocalypse.” Giant e-commerce companies, so the story goes, have killed traditional brick-and-mortar establishments ...

Talk of a “retail apocalypse” has swept American media in the past decade, with the dramatic expansion of high-speed home internet and e-commerce sparking concern about the future of brick-and-mortar ...