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Dec
Closing up shop: Here are the Bay Area's biggest retail closures of 2017
Few Bay Area retailers were immune to the year’s skyrocketing number of store closures, whether it was the electronics store around the corner or the department store anchor at the local mall.
This year has been a reckoning for brick-and-mortar retailers that failed to meet new consumer demands, with 2017 going down in the books as having the most store closings since 2000, according to analysts at Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS). More than 6,800 individual American stores have closed so far this year,…
Source: Arizona Business Journal
