retail apocalypse
nounEtymology
First appeared in print in an essay titled It's Not My Department! in the early 1990s by author Peter Glen.
Definitions
The closing of numerous brick-and-mortar retail stores in the United States, especially…
The closing of numerous brick-and-mortar retail stores in the United States, especially those of large chains, beginning around 2010.
- Toys “R” Us is hardly the only retail operation to learn this lesson the hard way. The so-called retail apocalypse felled roughly 7,000 stores and eliminated more than 50,000 jobs in 2017.
- The threat of a retail apocalypse coming for your business depends on the specific retail category and your current operations.
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