2020 Retail Store Closings Set Records — Fortune.com

Retail store closings in 2020 reached an all-time high, in part due to COVID-19 and the acceleration of e-commerce:

“Ravaged by a pandemic that shuttered stores for weeks in the spring—driving more spending online—retailers big and small closed 12,200 stores in the U.S. last year, according to a compilation released on Wednesday by commercial real estate firm CoStar Group. In all, that amounted to 159 million square feet of retail space. In 2019, the tally was 10,000 stores.”

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