sorry i can't provide links, received the message on my work e-mail, which jacks up html. sweeet. if you really want the links to the articles in case you don't believe me or something (pfft, skeptics :P), then i'll provide a link GOOGLE IT, SON
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Recent Store Closing Announcements:
* Circuit City to close by year's end - Circuit City – 155 stores to be closed nationwide (a familiar store name, can't say i've ever shopped there though. lol.)
* Ann Taylor Stores To Close 117 Stores, Cut Staff
* Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, Catherine's closing 150 stores (this is surprising, i actually thought that they were doing well enough...)
* 60 Eddie Bauer stores to be closed
* Cache/La Cache closing shop – all stores closed
* Talbots, J. Jill, Sigrid Olsen closing all stores
* Gap Inc. closing 85 stores (woah)
* Foot Locker Closing 250 Stores (THIS i am psyched about. SHOEZ)
* Wickes Furniture is closing after filing bankruptcy
* Zales Closing More Jewelry Stores to Total 105 in 2008
* Piercing Pagoda closing all stores (stores... i guess they're a store...)
* Whitehall Jewelers to close
* Value City to close
*Disney to shutter 98 stores (wut?)
* Home Depot closing 15 stores
* Macy's to close 9 stores
* Linens 'n Things will close all 317 of its remaining stores in 48 states
* Lone Star Steakhouse to close 27 stores
* Movie Gallery closing 520 stores
* Pacific Sunwear to Close Remaining 154 Stores (huh? is this the same as pacsun?)
* Pep Boys to close stores, reduce staff
* Pier 1 Imports closing 25 more stores after shedding 79 stores in 2007
* Friedman's Jewelers closing 473 stores
* Dell Computers is closing 140 retail stores
* 84 Lumber closed 12 stores
*Rite Aid closing 28 stores
* Big Dollar closing 10 stores
* Sofa Express closed all 44 stores
* Sprint Nextel to cut 4000 jobs, close 125 stores
*J. C. PENNEY PLANS TO CLOSE UP TO 50 MORE STORES
* $5.6 million tax lien filed against Ethan Allen
* Wilsons Leather to close 160 mall stores, cut 1000 jobs ...
* Sharper Image Closing All Stores (shame, they had interesting little gadgets)
* KB Toys to close 375 stores, cut 3500 jobs (oh, my childhood. too bad i never got toys when i was a kid xD)
* Dillard's will close more stores in 2009
* CompUSA Shutting Down All Stores
* CostPlus World Market closing 18 stores
* Lillian Vernon files for bankruptcy, goes out of business
* Mervyns to close remaining 149 stores (i know this hit home gaiz.)
* Mikasa brand for sale; all 86 factory outlet stores to close
* Rent-A-Center Closing 280 Stores Nationwide
* Shoe Pavilion closing all 64 store locations
* Starbucks to Close 600 Stores (and still have 1289812372987328193 left over)
* Steve & Barry's Out of Business / Liquidated
* Trans World liquidates 138 stores (Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, Wherehouse Music, f.y.e.)
* Discovery Channel Stores closing its 103-store Discovery Channel chain (oh, sad)
* Entertainment Solutions, a retailer of high-end electronics, to shutter stores
* Sears to close a 19 stores, including 8 Kmarts, 2 Sears mall stores, 1 Sears Grand, 1 Sears Essentials and the remaining 7 Great Indoors stores (and you thought kmart was already extinct)
Source: USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2008-11-17-gift-cards-cash-block_N.htm
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Recent Store Closing Announcements:
* Circuit City to close by year's end - Circuit City – 155 stores to be closed nationwide (a familiar store name, can't say i've ever shopped there though. lol.)
* Ann Taylor Stores To Close 117 Stores, Cut Staff
* Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, Catherine's closing 150 stores (this is surprising, i actually thought that they were doing well enough...)
* 60 Eddie Bauer stores to be closed
* Cache/La Cache closing shop – all stores closed
* Talbots, J. Jill, Sigrid Olsen closing all stores
* Gap Inc. closing 85 stores (woah)
* Foot Locker Closing 250 Stores (THIS i am psyched about. SHOEZ)
* Wickes Furniture is closing after filing bankruptcy
* Zales Closing More Jewelry Stores to Total 105 in 2008
* Piercing Pagoda closing all stores (stores... i guess they're a store...)
* Whitehall Jewelers to close
* Value City to close
*Disney to shutter 98 stores (wut?)
* Home Depot closing 15 stores
* Macy's to close 9 stores
* Linens 'n Things will close all 317 of its remaining stores in 48 states
* Lone Star Steakhouse to close 27 stores
* Movie Gallery closing 520 stores
* Pacific Sunwear to Close Remaining 154 Stores (huh? is this the same as pacsun?)
* Pep Boys to close stores, reduce staff
* Pier 1 Imports closing 25 more stores after shedding 79 stores in 2007
* Friedman's Jewelers closing 473 stores
* Dell Computers is closing 140 retail stores
* 84 Lumber closed 12 stores
*Rite Aid closing 28 stores
* Big Dollar closing 10 stores
* Sofa Express closed all 44 stores
* Sprint Nextel to cut 4000 jobs, close 125 stores
*J. C. PENNEY PLANS TO CLOSE UP TO 50 MORE STORES
* $5.6 million tax lien filed against Ethan Allen
* Wilsons Leather to close 160 mall stores, cut 1000 jobs ...
* Sharper Image Closing All Stores (shame, they had interesting little gadgets)
* KB Toys to close 375 stores, cut 3500 jobs (oh, my childhood. too bad i never got toys when i was a kid xD)
* Dillard's will close more stores in 2009
* CompUSA Shutting Down All Stores
* CostPlus World Market closing 18 stores
* Lillian Vernon files for bankruptcy, goes out of business
* Mervyns to close remaining 149 stores (i know this hit home gaiz.)
* Mikasa brand for sale; all 86 factory outlet stores to close
* Rent-A-Center Closing 280 Stores Nationwide
* Shoe Pavilion closing all 64 store locations
* Starbucks to Close 600 Stores (and still have 1289812372987328193 left over)
* Steve & Barry's Out of Business / Liquidated
* Trans World liquidates 138 stores (Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, Wherehouse Music, f.y.e.)
* Discovery Channel Stores closing its 103-store Discovery Channel chain (oh, sad)
* Entertainment Solutions, a retailer of high-end electronics, to shutter stores
* Sears to close a 19 stores, including 8 Kmarts, 2 Sears mall stores, 1 Sears Grand, 1 Sears Essentials and the remaining 7 Great Indoors stores (and you thought kmart was already extinct)
Source: USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2008-11-17-gift-cards-cash-block_N.htm