Retail Apocalypse? Major Chains Closing Hundreds Of Stores
by: Daniel Jennings
Offthegridnews.com
February 10, 2014
Hundreds of stores across the nation are closing as some of America’s most famous retailers struggle to stay in business.
The country is facing what CNBC has labeled a tsunami of store closings and blogger Michael Snyder has called a retail apocalypse.
Sears, K-Mart, Best Buy and JC Penney are among the big names in American retail that could disappear in the coming years, according to investment analysts. If or when these chains collapse, thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue will disappear.
Major retailers are posed to close 300 stores in the United States this year and that is only the beginning, CNBC reported. Up to half of the retail stores in the United States could disappear in the next 10 years, analyst Michael Burden told CNBC.
“Shoppers will likely see an average decrease in overall retail square footage of between one-third and one-half within the next five to 10 years, as a shift to e-commerce brings with it fewer mall visits and a lesser need to keep inventory stocked in-store,” Burden told CNBC.
Shocking Numbers of the Retail Apocalypse
The numbers related to the “retail apocalypse” are staggering.
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