This Week in Retail
The week’s store closures and openings with their markets and box sizes, plus the charts that explain them. Five minutes, every other Thursday.
Every edition so far
- Retail was the one property type where distress fell in September. Why are stores still closing?#48October 8, 2026
- More retailers run store tech than ever. Why are store losses still climbing?#47September 24, 2026
- Diesel jumped 24% in a month. Where did the store trips go?#46September 14, 2026
- Value retail is opening 1,400 stores this year. Who's left to shop them?#45September 3, 2026
- $800 million says the gut era is over. A third of CRE disagrees.#44August 27, 2026
- Where shoppers draw the line on AI#43August 20, 2026
- Retail fit-out is the second rent.#42August 6, 2026
- Casey's Says 75% of Its Small Towns Don't Have a Store Yet. I Profiled 300 Trade Zones to Find Out Why#41July 9, 2026
- I Almost Called One Number Wayfair's Secret Site Screen. Then I Ran It on 12 Towns It Would Never Build In#40June 25, 2026
- I Mapped All 71 Buc-ee's Trade Zones. Their Populations Span 78×. Two Numbers Barely Budge#39June 11, 2026
- I Profiled the 45 Joann Sites Burlington Is Opening This Year. They Aren't One Trade Area#38May 28, 2026
- TJX Added 48 Stores in 90 Days. Home Depot Added 2#37May 21, 2026
- BJ's Has 3 Site Models. The 4 New Texas Clubs Test 2 of Them#36May 14, 2026
- Bankruptcies +42% YoY. Burlington's May Calendar Hit 26.#35May 7, 2026
- Eddie Bauer's Last 150 Stores Went Dark April 30. Brent Hit $126. Operators Signed 53 New Leases Anyway.#34April 30, 2026
- March Retail Sales Hit $752B. The Same Week, QVC Filed Chapter 11 and Journeys Started Pulling Out of Malls.#33April 22, 2026
- 7-Eleven Is Cutting 645 Stores. Dave's Hot Chicken Opened 8 in One Day. Sentiment Hit 47.6.#32April 16, 2026
- 65 Carl's Jr. Restaurants in Chapter 11. 15 Huey Magoo's Units on a Half-Size Prototype. Same Week.#31April 9, 2026
- I Reverse-Engineered ALDI's Site Selection Formula From 67 Trade Zones#30April 2, 2026
- Aldi Is Opening 180 Stores. Eddie Bauer Is Closing All 175. Same Quarter.#29March 26, 2026
- Retail Earnings Didn't Get the Memo on Consumer Confidence#28March 19, 2026
- The Economy Lost 92,000 Jobs in February. Card Spending Hit a Three-Year High.#27March 12, 2026
- Ross Stores Posted +9% Comp. Wendy's Posted -11.3%. Same Week.#26March 6, 2026
- Q4 Earnings Looked Great. The 15% Tariff Landed the Same Week.#25February 26, 2026
- This Week in Retail: February 2026 Edition#24February 21, 2026
- Consumer Confidence Just Hit a Wall. Spending Didn't.#23February 19, 2026
- 730 Stores Got Their Notice This Week. One Chain Went Public.#22February 12, 2026
- The Speed Race: Walmart Bets $330M on Automation as Amazon Delivers 8 Billion Same-Day Items#21February 5, 2026
- The Automation Week: 33,000 Jobs Cut as Retailers Restructure for AI#20January 29, 2026
- The Sentiment-Spending Disconnect: Confidence Craters While Private Label Hits Records#19January 22, 2026
- The Week AI Checkout Went Live: Google, Microsoft, and Saks Global's $3.4 Billion Unraveling#18January 15, 2026
- The Great Disconnect: $257.8 Billion in Holiday E-Commerce, Consumer Confidence at Multi-Year Lows#17January 8, 2026
- How Weather Data Creates Small Advantages in Retail Site Selection#16December 5, 2025
- ChatGPT Wants To Be Your New Storefront#15November 21, 2025
- What Retailers Are Betting On: Following the Money Through Holiday Uncertainty#14November 6, 2025
- Retail's Record Halloween Spending Meets Historic Pessimism#13October 31, 2025
- Retail Confidence Indicators Turn Negative as Spending Growth Decelerates Through October#12October 23, 2025
- The Retail Performance Gap: Why Digital Leaders Operate 31% Leaner Than Everyone Else#11August 7, 2025
- Why Half Your Customers Can't Afford Your Stuff Anymore#10July 31, 2025
- Retail's Strategic Consumer in the Uncertainty Economy#9July 17, 2025
- Someone Rewrote The Retail Playbook While We Weren't Looking#8July 10, 2025
- When Robots Learn to Speak Customer#7June 26, 2025
- The Retail Reality Check#6June 20, 2025
- The Department Store at the End of the World#5June 12, 2025
- ICSC Las Vegas Proved Retail Teams Are Done Rolling the Dice#4May 29, 2025
- The New Retail Paradox - When Physical Meets Digital#3May 15, 2025
- Chapter 22 and the Great Reshuffling#2May 8, 2025
- Beyond Four Walls: How Smart Retailers Are Redefining Space in 2025#1May 1, 2025
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Closures, openings and the site signals hiding in the data. One email a week.