Thread: US Store Closings - The Latest Casualty Count

US Store Closings - The Latest Casualty Count
11-16-8

Watchout for these store money cards and gift cards...and credit slips.

Stores that informed the Security Exchange of closing plans between October 2008 and January 2009....


Circuit City stores... most recent (how many?)


Ann Taylor - 117 stores nationwide are to be shuttered


Lane Bryant,, Fashion Bug, and Catherine's to close 150 store nationwide


Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January


Cache will close all stores


Talbots closing down all stores


J. Jill closing all stores


GAP closing 85 stores


Footlocker closing 140 stores more to close after January


Wickes Furniture closing down


Levitz closing down remaining stores


Bombay closing remaining stores


Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January.


Whitehall closing all stores


Piercing Pagoda closing all stores


Disney closing 98 stores and more after January.


Home Depot closing 15 stores 1 in NJ ( New Brunswick )


Macys to close 9 stores after January


Linens and Things closing all stores


Movie Gallery Closing all stores


Pacific Sunware closing stores


Pep Boys Closing 33 stores


Sprint/ Nextel closing 133 stores


JC Penney closing a number of stores after January


Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.


Wilson Leather closing down all stores


Sharper Image closing down all stores


K B Toys closing 356 stores


LOWES to close down some stores


Dillard's to close some stores.


http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/119462413/direct/01/

http://www.rense.com/general84/closings.htm

So much for unrestricted trade and immigration being great for our economy. I wonder what the morons at the US Chamber have to say now about their support for it.

Looking at the list I see stores that sell mostly imports. And stores that have instore credit cards at very high interest rates.

The store closings list, to me, means that Americans are seriously cutting down on fluffy stuff, like the latest fashions, new furniture, or tech gizmos and with Home Depot and Lowes it means that contractors, whether they build or remodel, have no market for their services. The irrationally exuberant American consumer is pulling in its horns and wondering how to put food on the table.

That is a lot of tax monies.