More than 2,200 stores are closing in 2020 as the retail apocalypse drags on. Here's the full list.

[redqueen]

Retailers are expected to close more than 2,200 stores this year, following record-high rates of closings last year.

More than 9,300 store closings were announced in the US in 2019, smashing the previous record of roughly 8,000 store closures in 2017, according to an analysis by Business Insider.

The number of store closings this year could be even higher than previous records, according to estimates from the real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. The firm estimated last year that as many as 12,000 major chain stores could close in 2020.

Retailers have so far confirmed at least 2,200 stores slated for closure in 2020, according to a Business Insider analysis.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/stores-closing-in-2020-list-2020-1#click=https://t.co/sRoLbE9E1V

[dewsgirl]

1. These lists break my heart.

[Sherman A1]

2. Sad, but unfortunately a sign of the times

Having worked retail for over 4 decades this really hits home.

[lpbk2713]

3. My local Toys r Us is currently being demolished.

I hate to see it happen.

[rownesheck]

4. I'm still upset

at the closing of blockbuster video and all other video rental stores. Those were my favorite jobs ever. They were libraries where you could walk around and say, "Oh! I've been wanting to see that one!" Now, you just scroll through screens of whatever the streaming service puts up there. What fun is there in that? Boring! Bring back the video rental stores!

[mnmoderatedem]

5. I don't know how my local mall is going to survive

just walked through yesterday. Good grief, literally about a third of the units are vacant

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. It won't.

[CatWoman]

8. some cities are renovating empty malls and turning the spaces into tiny apartments

[CousinIT]

11. One near me is being turned into...well they haven't decided yet but

it won't be a shopping mall anymore.

[msongs]

6. people want their low quality china junk from low quality american online peddlers lol nt

[kimbutgar]

9. I try to buy in a store before going online

And I need to try on clothes. Everytime I order clothes online they end up not fitting and I give them away.

I went to our local IKEA the other day and the store was really busy.

[struggle4progress]

10. "Putin says: Destroy the economy!"

[smirkymonkey]

12. Operation "Destroy The United States From Within" right on schedule.

And the republicans are clearing their path.

[Wounded Bear]

13. Figure 10-12 employees each...

just spitballin' of course, but at 10 jobs each, that's 22,000 jobs.

[Ms. Toad]

15. There are about 3000 employees

in my daughter's company (with 50 stores). So your estimate's a bit low.

[Wounded Bear]

17. Was thinking average, including all of the smaller shops in malls...

and along Main Street. But like I said, was just spitballing.

Regardless, losing that many businesses will hurt small towns around the country. Malls are already dying and re-purposing.

[ck4829]

16. And there are 50,000 coal miners *total* in the US... guess who's getting catered to though?

[Ms. Toad]

14. My daughter's store is on there.

They are nearing the end of their liquidation sale. It's a race to see if she can get one last $20,000+ infusion in before her health insurance terminates.

She's got a new job - at $2 less an hour. Insurance won't start for 3 months and the timing means she will pay three full out of pocket maximums in 13 months, snce she blows through any annual out-of-pocket max in a month. ($2,000 at her current job; $3,500 once her new insurance kicks in, and up to $8,200 more for the gap period.) Still a bargain because her billed expenses are $200,000 a year - but still - on an income of less than $21,000/year - that $13,700 is likely going to come out of mom's pocket.

[hunter]

18. If you are spending all your money on housing...

... and the housing you can afford doesn't have a yard, garage, or any room to store things, there's only so much shopping you can do.

A person moving up in life from a college dorm room, to their own apartment, to a large condo, to a 3,000 square foot house on a quarter acre lot has room to shop. Everyone else, not so much.

[madville]

19. Retail is dead

Good for the USPS and other delivery services though

[Quixote1818]

20. I was at the mall in Albuquerque the other day and it was dead!

I don't know how half of the stores are staying open there now.