Toys R Us Closing Over 180 Stores.

     If you want to remain a Toys R Us kid, its time to grow up as the company announced today which stores are closing. As part of the companies bankruptcy restructuring, Toys R Us announced the closure of 182 stores today, and more likely over the year as stated previously, the closure of at least 200 stores this year. Liquidation sales will begin in February and all effected stores will close by late April.

Here is the list of Toys R Us stores closing according to USA Today.

(Locations highlighted in yellow are stores I have been to before)

ALABAMA

Tuscaloosa 2600 McFarland Blvd. East AL

Birmingham 335 Summit Boulevard,  AL

ARIZONA

Yuma 801 W. 32nd Street AZ

Paradise Valley 12801 North Tatum Blvd. AZ

Scottsdale 9139 Indian Bend Rd. AZ

Tucson 4619 N. Oracle Rd AZ

Scottsdale 7000 E. Mayo Blvd AZ

Mesa US 60 and Signal Butte Rd AZ

ARKANSAS

Little Rock 2616 S. Shackleford Rd AR

CALIFORNIA

Indio 42500 Jackson St. CA 

Simi Valley 1189 Simi Town Ctr Way CA

Santa Clarita 26573 Carl Boyer Dr. CA

Covina 960 Lakes Drive CA

Puente Hills 1600 S. Azusa Ave. CA

Brea 2575 E. Imperial Highway CA 

Westminster 530 Westminster Mall CA

Torrance 20120 Hawthorne Blvd. CA

Riverside 2550 Canyon Springs Pkwy S. CA

Yuba City 700 "A" Onstott Rd. CA

Folsom 2785 E. Bidwell St. CA

Pinole 1330 Fitzgerald CA

Pittsburg 4505 Century Blvd. CA

San Rafael 600 Francisco Blvd. CA

Brentwood 5461 Lone Tree Way CA

Fairfield 1400 Gateway Blvd CA

Emeryville 3938 Horton CA

E. San Jose 2179 Monterey Hwy CA

San Jose / Almade865 Blossom Hill Road CA

Fresno 3520 W. Shaw Ave. CA

Union City 31250 Court House Drive CA

Stockton 10640 Trinity Pkwy CA

Santa Ana 3900 Bristol Street CA

Corona 3665 Grand Oaks CA

Mission Bay 1240 W. Morena Blvd. CA

Mira Mesa 8181 Mira Mesa Blvd. CA 

Vista 1990 University Drive CA

COLORADO

Aurora 1150 S. Ironton CO

CONNECTICUT

North Haven 376 North Universal Drive CT

Waterbury 275 Union St. CT

Newington 3491 Berlin Turnpike CT

Manchester 169 Hale Road CT

DELAWARE

Dover 1061 N. Dupont Highway DE

FLORIDA

Tallahassee 1625 Apalachee Pkwy. FL

St. Petersburg 1900 Tyrone Blvd. FL

Tampa 3908 West Hillsborough Avenue FL

Orange Park 6001 Argyle Forest Blvd FL

Altamonte Spring 708 West State Rd 436 FL

Boca Raton 21697 State Road # 7 FL

Port St. Lucie 10732 SW Village Pkwy FL

Royal Palm Beach450 South SR 7 FL

Kissimmee 2601 W.Osceola Parkway FL

Coral Springs 6001 West Sample Road FL

Kissimmee 3214 N John Young Pkwy. FL

GEORGIA

Albany 2601 Dawson Rd. GA

Smyrna 2955 Cobb Parkway GA

Alpharetta 6380 No. Point Parkway GA

Dunwoody 1155 Mt. Vernon Hwy GA

Douglasville 6875 Douglas Boulevard GA

Conyers 8160 Mall Parkway GA

Newnan 221 Newnan Crossing Bypass GA

Fayetteville 132 Pavilion Parkway GA

INDIANA

Indianapolis 3928 E 82nd Street IN

Greenwood 8800 US 31 South IN

IOWA

S. Des Moines 1211 E. Army Post Rd. IA

Des Moines 8801 University Ave IA

ILLINOIS

Highland Park 1610 Deerfield Rd. IL

Schaumburg 16 East Golf Road IL

Vernon Hills 295 Center Drive IL

Matteson 5001 Lincoln Highway IL

Bricktown 6420 W. Fullerton IL

Burbank 7750 South Cicero Avenue IL

Niles 5660 Touhy Avenue IL

KANSAS

Wichita 4646 W. Kellogg KS

Overland Park 8500 W 135th ST KS

KENTUCKY

St. Mathews 4900 Shelbyville Rd KY

Simpsonville 1155 Buck Creek Rd. KY

Lexington 1965 Star Shoot Parkway KY

LOUISIANA

Slidell 137 Northshore Blvd. LA

Big-box toy store Toys ‘R’ Us says it plans to keep its 1,600 stores and online shop well-stocked despite filing for bankruptcy protection. USA TODAY

MICHIGAN

Muskegon 5363 Harvey Street MI

Traverse City 2620 Crossing Circle MI

Lansing 5900 W. Saginaw Highway MI

Grand Rapids 4923 28th Street South East MI

Ann Arbor 3725 Carpenter Road MI

Ann Arbor 3725 Washtenaw MI

MINNESOTA

Minnetonka 14100 Wayzata Blvd. MN

Blaine 170 89th Ave. MN

Woodbury 8236 Tamarack Village MN

Richfield 900 West 78th Street South MN

MISSISSIPPI

Meridian 1003 Bonita Lakes Circle

Bass Pro Dr. MS

MISSOURI

Columbia 1901 Bernadette MO

Cape Girardeau 201 Silver Springs Rd. MO

Bridgeton 5590 St. Louis Mills Blvd MO

Chesterfield 220 THF Blvd MO

NEBRASKA

Omaha 3505 S. 140th Plaza NE

NEVADA 

Las Vegas 2150 North Rainbow Blvd. NV

Spring Valley 7020 Arroyo Crossing Parkway NV
 

NEW MEXICO

Albuquerque 45 Hotel Circle NM 

NORTH CAROLINA

Asheville 801 Fairview Road NC

Durham 7001 Fayetteville Road NC

Durham 3300 Westgate Drive NC

MAINE

Bangor 6 Bangor Mall Blvd. ME

Portland 200 Running Hill Road ME

MARYLAND

Clinton 8401 Mike Shapiro Drive MD

MASSACHUSETTS

Dedham 302 Providence MA

Millbury 70 Worcester Providence Tpk/Rt 146 MA

Holyoke 50 Holyoke Street MA

Bellingham 217 Hartford Ave. MA

Northborough 6110 Shops Way MA

Framingham Shoppers World Plaza,1 Worcester Ro MA

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Nashua 29 Gusabel Avenue NH

NEW JERSEY

Phillipsburg 1280 Rt. 22 & St. James Ave. NJ

Eatontown 137 Route 35 NJ

Bridgewater 100 Promenade Blvd. NJ

Union 2700 Route 22 East. NJ

North Brunswick 909 US Hwy 1 South. NJ

Burlington Rt. 541 & Cadillac Road NJ

Cherry Hill 2135 Route 38 NJ

Wayne 7 Wayne Hills Mall NJ

Paramus 545 Route 17 South NJ

East Hanover 98 Route 10 West. NJ

Elizabeth-KidsWo 900 Center Drive NJ

Mt. Olive 50 International Drive South. NJ

NEW YORK

College Point 139-19 20th Ave NY

Union Square 24-30 Union Square E NY

Sayville 5181 Sunrise Hwy NY

Massapequa 5214 Sunrise Hwy NY

Henrietta 2335 Marketplace Drive NY

Amherst 1569 Niagara Falls Blvd NY

Kingston 401 Frank Sottile Boulevard NY

Glens Falls 708 Upper Glen St. NY

Latham 221 Wade Road Extension NY

Yonkers 2700 Central Park Ave NY

Middle Village 66 Metropolitan Ave. NY

Westbury 1350 Corporate Drive. NY

Commack 108 Veterans Memorial Highway NY

Williamsport 461 Lycoming Mall Cir

Greece 1530 Ridge Rd. West NY

OHIO

Western Hills 6251 Glenway Ave. OH

Dayton 2661 Miamisburg-Centerville Rd. OH

Mentor 7841 Mentor Ave OH

Dublin 3610 West Dublin-Granville Rd. OH

OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma City 1119 SE 66th St. OK

Fort Smith 5609-E Rogers Ave OK

Norman 560 Ed Noble Pkwy. OK

PENNSYLVANIA

Horsham 100 Welsh Road PA

Erie 6680 Peach St. PA

Monroeville 3700 William Penn Highway PA

Exton 104 Bartlett Ave. PA

Ross Park Mall 2003 Cheryl Dr. PA

Washington 301 Oakspring Road PA

Beaver Valley Route 18/Valley View Dr. PA

RHODE ISLAND

Warwick 300 Quaker Lane 

SOUTH CAROLINA

Columbia 254 Harbison Boulevard SC

SOUTH DAKOTA

Rapid City 450 E. Disk Drive SD

TENNESSEE

Memphis 7676 Polo Ground Blvd. TN

Nashville 5731 Nolensville Rd TN

TEXAS 

West El Paso 801 Mesa Hills Dr. TX

Katy 9730 Katy Freeway TX

Allen 170 E. Stacy Road TX

Irving 7730 N. MacArthur Blvd TX

Lewisville 420 E. Round Grove Rd TX

Dallas Galleria 13710 Dallas Parkway TX

Hurst 1309 W. Pipeline Rd TX

Hulen 5800 Overton Ridge Blvd TX

UTAH

Ogden 4042 Riverdale Rd. UT

Midvale 1122 Fort Union Boulevard UT

VIRGINIA

Potomac Mills 14173 Crossing Place VA

Newport News 12153 Jefferson Ave. VA

WASHINGTON

Silverdale 3567 N.W. Randall Way WA

Everett 1325A S.E. Everett Mall Parkway WA

Spokane 6104 N. Division Street WA

WISCONSIN

Brookfield 18550 W. Bluemound Rd. WI

Madison 2161 Zeier Road WI

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Sam's Club Shut Down 63 Locations Today!

     Wal-Mart has closed stores before in the past, no doubt about that, as well as Sam's Club locations, just a few each year though. Sam's Club has never closed this many stores at once and in the most absurd way possible. Yesterday, customers ready to shop and employee's going to there job were greeted by security guards and police at 63 Club locations across the U.S. to find out the store was closed for the day. Most have reopened today for regular business, but yesterday they closed to change there computer system and take down and deals and sale prices.

     These closures came as an announcement directly after Wal-Mart agreed to increase the minimum wage to $11. This is what happens, the employees want to be paid more, the company can't operate more stores because the overall cost will decrease overall profit, everyone wanted to be paid more, but with the increase, Wal-Mart has to cut a percentage of employee's to keep profit's on record.

For more information, here is the article from Business Insider.

Here are the 63 Sam's Club locations that are effected:

• 8801 Old Seward Hwy, Anchorage, AK 99515
• 1074 N Muldoon Rd, Anchorage, AK 99504
• 48 College Rd, Fairbanks, AK 99701
• 3900 Grants Mill Rd, Irondale, AL 35210
• 2425 E Florence Blvd, Casa Grande, AZ 85194
• 5757 E State Route 69, Prescott Valley, AZ 86314
• 1375 S Arizona Ave, Chandler, AZ 85286
• 15255 N Northsight Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85260
• 3360 El Camino Ave, Sacramento, CA 95821
• 17835 Gale Ave, City of Industry, CA 91748
• 12540 Beach Blvd, Stanton, CA 90680
• 12920 Foothill Blvd, Sylmar, CA 91342
• 69 Pavilions Dr, Manchester, CT 06042
• 2 Boston Post Rd, Orange, CT 06477
• 355 FL-436, Fern Park, FL 32730
• 7233 N Seacrest Blvd, Lantana, FL 33462
• 5135 S Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL 33611
• 2994 Turner Hill Rd, Lithonia, GA 30038
• 501 N Randall Rd, Batavia, IL 60510
• 21430 S Cicero Ave, Matteson, IL 60443
• 6600 44th Ave, Moline, IL 61265
• 808 S Illinois Rte 59, Naperville, IL 60540
• 900 S Barrington Rd, Streamwood, IL 60107
• 1055 McHenry Rd, Wheeling, IL 60090
• 460 S Weber Rd, Romeoville, IL 60446
• 3015 W 86th St, Indianapolis, IN 46268
• 10859 E Washington St, Indianapolis, IN 46229
• 4024 Elkhart Rd #1, Goshen, IN 46526
• 9598 Cortana Pl, Baton Rouge, LA 70815
• 9750 Reisterstown Rd, Owings Mills, MD 21117
• 1 Tobias Boland Way, Worcester, MA 01607
• 340 E. Edgewood Boulevard, Lansing, MI 48911
• 32625 Northwestern Hwy, Farmington Hills, MI 48334
• 3745 Louisiana Ave S, St Louis Park, MN 55426
• 2800 27th Ave S, Moorhead, MN 56560
• 11 Batchelder Rd, Seabrook, NH 03874
• 81 International Dr S, Budd Lake, NJ 07828
• 1900 E Linden Ave, Linden, NJ 07036
• 301 Nassau Park Boulevard, Princeton, NJ 08540
• 2649 Erie Blvd E, Syracuse, NY 13224
• 720 Fairmount Ave, Jamestown, NY 14701
• 700 Elmridge Center Dr, Rochester, NY 14626
• 1600 Marketplace Dr, Rochester, NY 14623
• 5085 Dawn Dr, Lumberton, NC 28360
• 1101 Shiloh Glenn Dr, Morrisville, NC 27560
• 4825 Marburg Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45209
• 9570 Fields Ertel Rd, Loveland, OH 45140
• 1145 Carr 2, Bo Florida Afuera, Barceloneta, 00617, Puerto Rico
• Carr 830, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 00957
• Carr 3 Km 82 Bo Junquitos, Humacao, 00741, Puerto Rico
• 615 Old Hickory Blvd, Nashville, TN 37209
• 1805 Getwell Rd, Memphis, TN 38111
• 1615 S Loop W, Houston, TX 77054
• 13331 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77077
• 22296 Market Place Dr, New Caney, TX 77357
• 12919 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio, TX 78216
• 741 E Little Creek Rd, Norfolk, VA 23518
• 4571 S Laburnum Ave, Richmond, VA 23231
• 901 S Grady Way, Renton, WA 98057
• 1101 Outlet Collection Way, Auburn, WA 98001
• 13550 Aurora Ave N, Seattle, WA 98133
• 7050 Watts Rd, Madison, WI 53719
• 1540 S 108th St, West Allis, WI 53214

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Macy's Closing 11 Locations; None In Illinois

     Macy's has started off the new year on a bad foot announcing the closure of 11 stores last week. These closures are on top of another 19 stores that will be announced later this year as the leases will expire, according to Business Insider. Closing sales began January 8th and will last 12 weeks, so the locations listed below will close by the end of April.

Here are the 11 locations that will be closing so far this year:

• Laguna Hills Mall, Laguna Hills, Calfornia 
• Westside Pavilion, Los Angeles, Calfornia 
• Novato (Furniture), Novato, Calfornia 
• Stonestown Galleria, San Francisco, Calfornia 
• The Oaks, Gainesville, Florida
• Miami (Downtown), Miami, Florida
• Magic Valley Mall, Twin Falls, Idiaho
• Honey Creek Mall, Terre Haute, Indiana
• Birchwood Mall, Fort Gratiot Township, Michigan
• Fountain Place, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Burlington Town Center, Burlington, Vermont

 Macy's has been struggling for years although nowhere close to some other major retailers and they are doing appropriate action now to not come close to how many have fallen.

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Heartbreaking: Sears Holdings Closing 103 Stores By April

     The start of a new years usually means resolutions are set, closing more stores was Eddie Lapert's as Sears Holdings started the year off strong. Late last week, Sears Holdings announced the closure of 103 stores, much more substantial than any closing announcement in the last several years. The closures are broken down to 64 Kmart stores and 39 Sears stores. The liquidations sales began on January 4th with a twelve week sales process leading to most stores closing by the end of April. According to Business Insider, Sears Holdings will be left with about 940 stores, down from over 3,500 about six years ago. After these closures, there will be about 400 Kmarts left in the country.

     The effort put into closing stores is based on them being profitable or not, well by now, no Sears of Kmart is profitable, as investors applaud Lambert for closing "unprofitable" stores, quarterly earnings...sales in general have yet to recover.

Here is the heartbreaking list of Kmart locations that will be closing by late April.

• 1 Kmart Plaza/State Highway 89, Cabot, Arkansas
• 8701 West McDowell, Tolleson, Arizona
• 750 West Deuce Of Clubs, Show Low, Arizona
• 301 Gardner Field Road, Taft, California
• 8017 South Atlantic Ave., Cudahy, California
• 1670 East 4th St., Ontario, California
• 1570 W. Branch St., Arroyo Grande, California
• 2685 Hilltop Drive, Redding, California
• 3020 N. Nevada St., Colorado Springs, Colorado
• 1002 East Highway 50, Clermont, Florida
• 10301 S. E. US Highway 441, Belleview, Florida
• 3711 E. Silver Spring Blvd., Ocala, Florida
• 430 Northside Drive, East Statesboro, Georgia
• 2525 Dawson Road, Albany, Georgia
• 950 Sunset Blvd., Jesup, Georgia
• 2501 N. Broadway St., Red Oak, Iowa
• 7501 Hickman Road, Urbandale, Iowa
• Route 149 West, West Frankfort, Illinois
• 3404 Broadway St., Mount Vernon, Illinois
• 1321 Sandy Hollow Road, Rockford, Illinois
• 5101 E. Thompson Road, Indianapolis, Indiana
• 3175 W. 3rd St., Bloomington, Indiana
• 4830 S. Broadway St., Wichita, Kansas
• 2440 Lone Oak Road, Paducah, Kentucky
• 3555 Highway 190, Mandeville, Louisiana
• 1647 Crofton Centre, Crofton, Maryland
• 301 Tilghman Road, Salisbury, Maryland
• 67300 Main St., Richmond, Michigan
• 205 S. Greenville W. Drive, Greenville, Michigan
• 1700 Cedar St., Helena, Montana
• 3300 Harrison Ave., Butte, Montana
• 706 E. Dixon Blvd., Shelby, North Carolina
• 2515 Horner Blvd., Sanford, North Carolina
• 395 Westgate Plaza Road, Franklin, North Carolina
• 175 Freedom Way, Midway Park, North Carolina
• 815 E. Innes St., Salisbury, North Carolina
• 701 5th Ave. SE, Devils Lake, North Dakota
• Milton Road, Rochester, New Hampshire
• 1235 S. 2nd St., Raton, New Mexico
• 2100 E. Tucumcari Blvd., Tucumcari, New Mexico
• 4500 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada
• 2671 N. Las Vegas Blvd., North Las Vegas, Nevada
• 57 Centre Drive, Plattsburgh, New York
• 2100 Niles Cortland Road SE, Warren, Ohio
• 4010 W. Owen Garriott Road, Enid, Oklahoma
• 1025 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, Pennsylvania
• 2900 N. Elmira St., Sayre, Pennsylvania
• 463 N. Enola Routes 11 and 15, Enola, Pennsylvania
• 5050 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• 5 Laurel Mall, Hazleton Township, Pennsylvania
• 1874 N. Township Blvd., Pittston, Pennsylvania
• 2235 E. State St., Hermitage, Pennsylvania
• 3301 Aramingo Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 491 Allegheny Blvd., Franklin, Pennsylvania
• 650 Old Willow Ave., Honesdale, Pennsylvania
• 190 Cumberland Square, Crossville, Tennessee
• 230 Longhollow Pike, Goodlettsville, Tennessee
• 1317 Tusculum Blvd., Greeneville, Tennessee
• 1400 Wildcat Drive, Portland, Texas
• 2 Diamond Run Mall, Rutland, Vermont
• 1201 Louisiana Ave. NW, Chehalis, Washington
• 5636 US Route 60, East Huntington, West Virginia
• 102 Emily Drive, Clarksburg, West Virginia
• 1477 Maccorkle Ave., Saint Albans, West Virginia

Here are the Sears stores that will also be closed by late April.

• 5900 Old Seward Highway, Anchorage (Sur), Alaska
• 1679 W. Lacey Blvd., Hanford, California
• 24137 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, California
• 9000 Northgate Mall, San Rafael, California
• 100 Brea Mall, Brea, California
• 100 Westminster Mall, Westminster, California
• 5540 Winfield Blvd., San Jose, California
• 3240 Kirkwood Highway, Wilmington, Delaware
• 5900 West Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida
• 2930 Watson Blvd., Centerville, Georgia
• 2060 Crossroads Blvd., Waterloo, Iowa
• 200 W. Hanley Ave., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
• 1543 Poleline Road, East Twin Falls, Idaho
• Orland Square Mall, Orland Park, Illinois
• 1602 State Road 50, Bourbonnais, Illinois
• 3000 W. Deyoung St., Marion, Illinois
• 1100 S. Green River Road, Evansville, Indiana
• 1100 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington, Massachusetts
• 693 Stillwater Ave., Bangor, Maine
• 2700 State St., Bismarck, North Dakota
• 1201 Hooper Ave., Toms River, New Jersey
• 195 N. Broadway, Hicksville, New York
• 1300 Ulster Ave., Kingston, New York
• 6000 Glenway Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio
• 3030 Gateway St., Springfield, Oregon
• 1260 Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
• 1008 Ross Park Mall Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• 7300 Bustleton Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1155 Carlisle St., Hanover, Pennsylvania
• 2200 N. Maple Ave., Rapid City, South Dakota
• 1000 Highway 6, Houston, Texas
• 4511 N. Midkiff Road, Midland, Texas
• 12625 N. I‐H 35, Austin, Texas
• 1000 Newgate Mall, Ogden, Utah
• 15711 N. Aurora Ave., Shoreline, Washington
• 1701 S. Commons St., Federal Way, Washington
• 121 NE Hampe Way, Chehalis, Washington
• 1555 Green Bay Plaza, Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Brookfield Square, Brookfield, Wisconsin

As hard as it is getting to shop at Kmart, I will still support them am much as I can, until the day the last location closes, they will be at the top of my list of shopping choices.

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Reflection 8: The Confused Hell That Is Physical Shopping.

     The start of a new year, and already reflecting on it. Last year was rough with retail as stores close, that's nothing new. What is done to keep it from happening and also to continue happening is not yet explained. On a regular day, I can take a walk through my mall of choice and somehow sense people aren't shopping with a purpose. As the internet craze has consumed our shopping habits, the only way to purchase something now is knowing it will come in a box with a smile on it. As American consumers, we shop all year, the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday is the kick off to the biggest shopping season of the year. Between that Friday and Christmas Eve, the stores and malls are packed, and online orders are backed up, we love to spend money and fill our lives with property and tangible goods. Leading up to Christmas, all the stores are closed, the shopping seasons has ended, although the day after Christmas, the stores and malls are packed again, as if a switch was flipped on. Although we flood the return desks, and exchange what we received for what we actually want. I notice even a week after Christmas, everyone has bags in there hands walking through the wings or the mall, I wonder "didn't you get enough for Christmas", we want so much, and the market is in our favor, as consumers, we have reached the highest shopping levels in years. This leaves me with one question...why are the stores still closing?


     A chain of stores can go out of business, physically, and still profit very well with online. Many have done it in the past, originally catalog stores like Service Merchandise and Montgomery Ward. The physical stores closed, but the company lead on with there online presence. Circuit City and CompUSA also have done it. Retail companies know very well that online dominates over brick-and-mortar, but change the layout of the store to accommodate the transition of shopping habits. Downsizing is the most common change, square footage of stores shrink, and fill shelves with the most commonly sold items. An employee can recommend to a customer if they don't stock something there looking for, to order it online for them to pick up in the store, the company is still making money, just in different ways. Why waist space on products that don't commonly sell, stock only what people need, a niche item is still offered, but not in quantities that justify shelf space in the physical store. Downsizing keeps a chains profits in the green as less overhead expenses such as square footage, total number of employee's, and assets like amounts of equipment. The warehouses remain the same as there still stocked with all the products, and they can ship it from the warehouse directly to your doorstep and not even make you wait for the stores to receive new inventory as there not going to ship on short in a truck just because you order it!

     Relevant to store downsizing, some space is being repurposed for online pick up and drop-off. I am not sure if a term has been coined for what Kohl's and Amazon are doing, customers can now pick-up there Amazon orders and Kohl's orders in a designated space in select Kohl's locations. Whole Foods as well as several malls have a bank of Amazon boxes you can rent with your Amazon account for orders to be delivered and received there. Nordstrom is doing the same with online pick-up as there is a designated space constructed in a portion of the shoe department. Several other chains are doing very similar acts to transition to a variety of selling methods, one biggest factor is to keeping people coming in. The Amazon boxes are in the main entrance of the mall, so if you have to walk into the mall to pick up your orders, likely you will continue into the mall for something...food, a drink, anything, the power of Amazon is being used to keep the"out dated" way of shopping relevant by being incorporating into there business somehow. The Amazon boxes are placed in the dining area of Whole Foods, so supposedly when you pick up you orders, your going to be enticed to getting lunch or dinner, or do your grocery shopping, since after all, your already in the store.

     A lot of empty square footage of some malls is being revamped into bigger and better food courts, although being called food pavilion or dining centers. When you don't always need to buy shoes or cloths, you still need to eat, and so many more choices are being offered now to keep people coming for lunch or dinner. Also to keep shoppers in longer, as there is food provided in the mall, that keeps shoppers from leaving for lunch or dinner, thus keeping them in the mall to shop longer. Better lounge areas are being set up and charging stations for people to rest and charge there devices. To the average shopper, these are just pleasantries, but to the analysis, there fighting tactics to keep you coming back. If there is no where to sit and no where to eat, and you don't need to buy cloths because you bought it online, what purpose do you have being in the mall.

     As stores continue to close and trends shift to online, other methods of receiving goods and services will soon be prime. The only walls a company will need are the warehouse walls as no physical stores will be needed, or at least satellite stores for order pick up and returns. It is indeed an changing world, for the worst in my opinion, but I guess I am just an old soul, born in the wrong time. Only time will tell of the future of retail shopping, at this rate, its won't take much time at all.