The retail apocalypse is paying off for at least one group: women in the C-suite. While the crop of chief executives at the biggest U.S. companies gets more male, women have made some notable gains in ...

While Americans fixate on Costco's $65 annual membership fee, the more consequential story unfolds in the spreadsheets of retail consolidation. The National Retail Federation's 2025 Top 100 Retailers ...

Two malls in New Jersey are slowly dying as they continue failing to attract shoppers in what is supposed to be the busiest season of the year for the retail sector. The typical Christmas hustle and ...

Until last week, it seemed as though U.S. retail employment had recovered from its apocalypse — the wave of store closures headlined by last year's implosion of Toys R Us — and was nearing another ...

The retail apocalypse continued in 2025, as 8,100 retail stores across all sectors closed for an increase of 12% compared to ...

The retail apocalypse continued in 2025, as 8,100 retail stores across all sectors closed for an increase of 12% compared to 2024, according to Coresight Research, as reported by WDEF-TV. Grocery ...

More than 3,800 stores are expected to shutter their brick-and-mortar retail operations this year, most notably and recently the bankruptcies of Toys ‘R’ Us and Sears Holdings. But it’s not only ...

What a difference a few years can make. Macy's (NYSE: M), a one-time poster boy for the retail apocalypse, saw its share price not only grow across 2025 (by over 30%) but also convincingly outperform ...

The World Economic Forum noted that COVID-19 was spreading as early as December of 2019. When it exploded onto the news in early 2020, economic pundits weren't paying it much notice. It was, after all ...

Traffic has been declining for decades, and is set to accelerate with the growth of trip-eliminators (e.g. online) and ‘trip-consolidators’ (e.g. bulk-item retailers). Two growth levers remain: more ...

Sears, once one of the most successful department stores in America, is down to just eight U.S. locations — soon to be seven — when its Whittier store closes later this month. The three-story store at ...

In a small Oklahoma city with a growing inventory of retail space, a 24,000-square-foot building sits vacant since October and without a new tenant, weeds are beginning to poke through the asphalt ...