The “retail apocalypse” has been going on for several years and unfortunately it won’t stop this year.
It is fair to say that the majority of retailers closed stores at least temporarily due to COVID-19. But more than 40 retailers have announced plans to close some or all of their stores permanently this year.
A number of the retailers on this list have filed for bankruptcy. They include Stein Mart; the Ascena Retail Group, the owner of Ann Taylor, Catherines, Loft, Lane Bryant, Justice and Lou & Grey; Retailwinds, the owner of New York & Company, Fashion to Figure, and Happy x Nature; Brooks Brothers; GNC; Tuesday Morning; JCPenney; J. Crew; AVF Holdings Inc., the owner of Art Van Furniture, Levin Furniture and Wolf Furniture; Pier 1 Imports; Gold’s Gym; Tailored Brands, the owner of Men’s Warehouse and Jos. A. Bank; CEC Entertainment, the parent company of Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza; and Hertz.
Some of the retailers on this list will close all of their stores. They include Pier 1 Imports, New York & Company, Catherines, G.H. Bass and Wilsons Leather.
The store closings of many of these national retailers will be felt at shopping centers across central Pennsylvania.
Here are the 40 national retailers that will be closing stores in 2020:
On July 23, the Ascena Retail Group, the owner of Ann Taylor, Catherines, Loft, Lane Bryant, Justice and Lou & Grey, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ascena is closing 10 Loft stores but none are in Pennsylvania.
CVS Pharmacy at 59 Washington St. in Hoboken (Reena Rose Sibayan, The Jersey Journal)Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal
The company plans to close 22 stores this year, according to MoneyWise.
BETHESDA, MD - MARCH 16: (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Getty Images
Gold’s Gym announced in May that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and said it would close about 30 company-owned stores. None of the company-owned stores are in Pennsylvania, Adam Zeitsiff, president and CEO of Gold’s Gym confirmed to PennLive in June.
FILE - This March 5, 2013 file photo shows an Ann Taylor store in Mount Lebanon, Pa. The operator of Ann Taylor and Lane Bryant filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Thursday, July 23, 2020 (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)AP
On July 23, the Ascena Retail Group, the owner of Ann Taylor, Catherines, Loft, Lane Bryant, Justice and Lou & Grey, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ascena is closing 38 Ann Taylor Factory stores, but none of the stores are in Pennsylvania.
Shoppers sit on a bench near the Christopher & Banks store at Bay City Town Center, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (Rachel Ellis, MLIve)Rachel Ellis | MLive
The retailer plans to close 30 to 40 stores by the end of the year, according to MoneyWise.
A sign is posted in front of a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant on January 16, 2014 in Newark, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Getty Images
CEC Entertainment, the parent company of Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 24. As of that date there were 266 company-operated Chuck E Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza restaurant and arcade venues. Chuck E. Cheese announced the closing of 45 locations including locations in the Lancaster and Johnstown areas, according to USA Today.
Kmart, 400 N. Best Ave., in Walnutport is the Lehigh Valley's last remaining location. (Pamela Sroka-Holzmann)
Transformco, the owner of Kmart said in November that it will close 45 Sears stores by February 2020 including stores in the Wilkes Barre, Williamsport, Lebanon, Berwick and Ephrata areas.
A shopper leaves Bath & Body Works Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 at Bel Air Mall in Mobile, Ala. (Bill Starling/bstarling@al.com) MO
L Brands plans to permanently close 50 Bath & Body Works stores in the United States and one in Canada, according to USA Today.
The Whitehall Mall Sears closed earlier this year. (Steve Novak, LehighValleyLive)Steve Novak | For lehighvalleylive.com
Transformco, the owner of Sears, said in November that it will close 51 Sears stores by February 2020 including a store in Whitehall and a store in North Wales.
This is a Sept. 11, 2001, file photo shows a man passing a Brooks Brothers store on Church St. in New York. The storied Manhattan fashion retailer Brooks Brothers is filing for bankruptcy protection. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP
Last month, Brooks Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to Market Watch. The company said it would close about 51 stores. Locations were not announced, but most of the closures have reportedly already begun with inventory moving from targeted stores to distribution centers; eight stores were permanently closed last month, including in NYC, Boston and Washington, D.C., according to Business Insider. Brooks Brothers has more than 500 stores worldwide and 4,025 employees, including an outlet store at Tanger Outlets Lancaster. The Brooks Brothers store at the Outlet Shoppes at Gettysburg has permanently closed, according to the company website.
G-III Apparel Group Ltd. is closing all of its 89 G.H. Bass stores, according to Chain Store Age. G.H. Bass has stores at Tanger Outlets Hershey and the Outlet Shoppes at Gettysburg.
Office Depot has announced it will close 90 locations by 2021, according to MoneyWise.
Following a disappointing 2019 holiday shopping season, the chain announced plans to close around 100 stores by 2022, according to MoneyWise. The number includes 31 that have already shut down in 2020, and another 35 that will be gone by the end of January 2021, the website said.
The 31 stores included these two stores in Pennsylvania, according to Business Insider.
- Bensalem: Neshaminy, 707 Neshaminy Mall
- State College: Nittany Mall, 2901 E College Ave.
Portrait Innovations closed in January and New York & Company will close soon at the Shoppes at Susquehanna Marketplace (Daniel Urie, PennLive)
The company abruptly closed in January and had more than 100 locations, according to WFMZ-TV. There was a location at the Shoppes at Susquehanna Marketplace in Susquehanna Township.
G-III Apparel Group Ltd. is closing all 110 Wilsons Leather stores, according to Chain Store Age. Wilsons Leather has stores at Tanger Outlets Lancaster, Tanger Outlets Hershey and the Outlet Shoppes at Gettysburg.
Macy's store at the Harrisburg Mall has reopened. But store store will soon permanently close. (Daniel Urie, PennLive)
Macy’s announced in February that it would close 125 stores over three years, according to USA Today. Among the first 30 stores that are closing this year include a store at the Harrisburg Mall in Dauphin County and a store at the Nittany Mall in Centre County, according to Business Insider. The Macy’s opened at the mall along Paxton Street in 2006. It is one of largest department stores in the area and will leave a large vacant three-floor space at the mall.
A.C. Moore (Shutterstock)
A.C. Moore announced that it will be closing all of its 145 stores including a store on Union Deposit Road in Lower Paxton Township and a store on the Carlisle Pike in Silver Spring Township. Michaels said it would take over 40 of those locations this year.
On July 23, the Ascena Retail Group, the owner of Ann Taylor, Catherines, Loft, Lane Bryant, Justice and Lou & Grey, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Lane Bryant is closing more than 150 stores including these locations in Pennsylvania, according to the USA Today.
- King of Prussia: 160 North Gulph Road
- Lancaster: 1575 Fruitville Pike, Suite A-2
- Pittsburgh: 301 S Hills Village
- Willow Grove: 2500 W Moreland Road
- Erie: 670 Millcreek Mall (outlet store)
- Philadelphia: 1900 Franklin Mills Circle (outlet store)
Modell’s Sporting Goods filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection in March and said it was closing all of it stores, according to Bloomberg. The family-owned business chain had 153 stores in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C., according to a report by Bloomberg.
Motherhood Maternity, Destination Maternity
Destination Maternity filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year and said it would close 183 stores under its brands -- Destination Maternity, Motherhood Maternity and A Pea in the Pod, according to Business Insider. Twenty-seven of those stores had already closed as of last October, according to the report. One of the stores that closed this year was the Motherhood Maternity store at Tanger Outlets Lancaster in East Lampeter Township.
A store-closing sale has started at the J.C. Penney store at the Destiny USA mall in Syracuse. (Photo shot on Tuesday, June 23, 2020.) The store is one of the first 149 nationwide that the troubled department store chain will close in the summer of 2020. (Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com)Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com
J.C. Penney filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May. The company said at the time it expected to close 192 locations by February 2021 and 50 more would close in its 2022 fiscal year. In June it announced the locations of 151 of those stores including four in Pennsylvania:
- Clearview Mall 101 Clearview Circle, Butler
- North Hanover Mall 1155 Carlisle St., Hanover
- Galleria @ Pittsburgh Mills 167 Pittsburgh Mill Circle, Tarentum
- Century III Mall 3075 Clairton Road, West Mifflin
As of December 31, 2018, Luxottica operated 199 Sears Optical stores throughout North America. It’s not clear how many stores remain but, Luxottica announced on its website it will close all of its stores on Feb. 1, including a store at the Colonial Park Mall in Lower Paxton Township.
Art Van Furniture/Wolf Furniture
AVF Holdings Inc. announced in March that it had made the decision to wind down operations and begin liquidation sales at all of its company-owned stores in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Ohio. The company operates under the brands Art Van Furniture, Art Van PureSleep and Scott Shuptrine Interiors. The company announced on March 6 that Levin Furniture and Wolf Furniture in Ohio and Pennsylvania would be sold to Robert Levin, pending court approval. Eight Wolf Furniture stores in Maryland and Virginia would also be liquidated. Two weeks later Art Van Furniture said it would not sell the eight stores to Robert Levin. In July Robert Levin announced that Levin Furniture would reopen 17 stores in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. About 200 stores will close, according to MoneyWise.
Walgreens said last August that it plans to close approximately 200 locations in the United States but didn’t say when those closings would take place.
The Children’s Place plans to close 200 stores this year and another 100 by the end of 2021, according to Today.
FILE - This Feb. 10, 2017 file photo shows the sign on a Gap store in the Shadyside shopping district of Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)AP
Gap said in 2019 that it will close 230 stores over the next two years. In January, the company announced that it already closed 89 of those stores, according to MoneyWise.
Tuesday Morning opened in June, 2019 at 5098 Jonestown Road in the Colonial Commons shopping center. Businesses along Jonestown Road/Allentown Boulevard. July 24, 2019. Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com
Discount retailer, Tuesday Morning filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May. The company at the time said it expected to permanently shutter 230 of its 687 locations and said it would be closing “underperforming stores” over the summer. The stores to close include those at the Carpet Mart Plaza in Hampden Township and Colonial Commons shopping center in Lower Paxton Township, according to a list published by CNBC. Tuesday Morning stores in other parts of Pa. are also on the list, including Wilkes-Barre, Pittsburgh and Quakertown
Last year, Chico’s, which owns Chico’s, White House Black Market and Soma, announced that it would close 250 stores over a three-year period, according to RetailDive.
L Brands plans to close 250 Victoria’s Secret stores in the United States and Canada, according to USA Today. Among the closings include a store at the Colonial Park Mall in Lower Paxton Township and a store at the Lebanon Valley Mall.
The Bed Bath & Beyond store at the Lakes Mall, in Fruitport on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Kayla Renie | MLive.comKayla Renie | MLive.com
Bed Bath and Beyond said it plans to permanently close roughly 200 of its 955 namesake stores over the next two years, starting later this year, according to CNBC, which said the company has a total of 1,478 stores under different brands. Before the pandemic hit, Bed Bath and Beyond had planned to close 40 of its stores by March 2020 and another 20 stores were marked for closure from the other chains BB&B owns, including buybuy BABY and Cost Plus World Market, according to MoneyWise.
On July 23, the Ascena Retail Group, the owner of Ann Taylor, Catherines, Loft, Lane Bryant, Justice and Lou & Grey, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ascena closed all 264 Catherines stores. There are 10 Catherines store in the state including one at the Paxton Towne Center in Lower Paxton Township.
Stein Mart, Marshalls and HomeGoods opened in October, 2017 at 5600 Carlisle Pike. May 20, 2019. Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.comPENNLIVE.COM
Stein Mart Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. The discount retailer said it expects to close a significant portion, if not all, of its approximately 280 brick-and-mortar stores and has launched a store closing and liquidation process.
Kay Jewelers, Zales, Jared The Galleria Of Jewelry and Piercing Pagoda
Signet Jewelers said in June that it would not reopen at least 150 of its North America stores that were temporarily shuttered in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the USA Today. Signet Jewelers, which operates thousands of jewelry stores primarily under the name brands of Kay Jewelers, Zales, Jared The Galleria Of Jewelry and Piercing Pagoda, also plans to close an additional 150 stores by the end of its fiscal year, which ends in February 2021, according to the newspaper.
The video game retailer will close 300 stores this year, according to the financial website, The Motley Fool. The Gamestop stores that closed this year include a store at the Colonial Park Mall in Lower Paxton Township.
Portrait Innovations closed in January and New York & Company will close soon at the Shoppes at Susquehanna Marketplace (Daniel Urie, PennLive)
On July 13, Retailwinds, the owner of New York & Company, Fashion to Figure, and Happy x Nature, filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. The Company will close all of its stores, according to Footwearnews.com. New York & Company stores at the Harrisburg Mall in Swatara Township, the Capital City Mall in Lower Allen Township and at the Shoppes at Susquehanna Marketplace in Susquehanna Township are the stores the company has in the Harrisburg area. When all of the company’s stores close this year, it will be a total of 405 stores including 25 stores that the retailer said it would close by February 2020 and 380 stores that it is closing now, according to MoneyWise.
Jos. A. Bank, Mens’s Warehouse
Tailored Brands, the owner of Jos. A. Bank and Men’s Warehouse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 2. In July it said it would close more than 500 stores. As of Aug. 3, the company had announced only one store closing in Pennsylvania, a Jos. A. Bank store in Philadelphia, according to USA Today.
Girls’ clothing retailer, Justice is closing more than 600 of its 826 stores and the stores are expected to close within the next 30 to 60 days, according to USA Today. Justice will close a number of stores in Pennsylvania. Justice will close 35 stores in the state including stores at the Capital City Mall in Lower Allen Township; The Outlet Shoppes at Gettysburg in Mount Joy Township, Adams County; the Park City Center in Lancaster; at Tanger Outlets Lancaster in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County and at 2819 Concord Road in Springettsbury Township, York County, according to USA Today.
Pier 1 Imports is closing its store in Camp Hill. (Daniel Urie, PennLive)
Pier 1 Imports announced in February that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced it was closing more than 400 stores including its store on Jonestown Road in Lower Paxton Township. But, in May it announced it was closing its remaining 540 stores, including its store in Camp Hill.
FILE- In this April 29, 2020 file photo, a couple walks past a GNC store at the company's world headquarters in downtown Pittsburgh. The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Health and wellness company GNC Holdings has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is looking to close at least 800 to 1,200 stores.Gene J. Puskar | AP Photo
GNC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 23. Over the past year, GNC has been closing underperforming stores. GNC expects to accelerate the closure of at least 800 to 1,200 stores. As of March 31, 2020, GNC had approximately 7,300 locations, of which approximately 5,200 retail locations are in the United States (including approximately 1,600 Rite Aid store-within-a-store locations).
The stores that GNC has announced that it is closing in Pennsylvania include:
- Monroeville Mall Monroeville
- Logan Valley Mall Altoona
- Oxford Valley Mall Langhorne
- Springfield Mall Springfield
- Neshaminy Mall Cornwell Heights
- Lehigh Valley Mall Whitehall
- Clearfield Mall Clearfield
- Cranberry Mall Cranberry
- Clearview Mall Butler
- York Galleria York
- Hyde Park Plaza Leechburg
- Willow Grove Mall Willow Grove
- South Mall Allentown
- Edgmont Square Newtown Square
- Wynnewood Shopping Center Wynnewood
- Shoppes At Montage Moosic
- Pine Creek Center Pittsburgh
- Park City Center Lancaster
- Montgomery Mall North Wales
- Curry Hollow Center Pleasant Hills
- Shoppes @ Pgh Mills Tarentum
- Mccandless Crossing Pittsburgh
- Summit Ridge Shopping Centre Mt Pleasant
- Windsor Commons Red Lion
- Levittown Town Center Levittown
- Greentree Road Sc Pittsburgh
- Amtrak Station Philadelphia
- Millcreek Mall Erie
- Hillcrest Shopping Center Lower Burrell
- Clarion Mall Clarion
- Newberry Pointe Etters
- 5530 Walnut Street Pittsburgh
- Wayne Avenue Plaza Chambersburg
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