Of the list the only one that affects me is WalMart. they are the most likely to survive even under attack from government and the unions. Along with the Dollar stores they are the only hope for the equally under attack retirees and senior citizens. The rest were always mall momma fluff stores and of no importance to survival. WalMart, it's distribution system and it's pricing along with the Dollar Stores are the last bastion of defense a nation unable to provide for itself has and the jobs provided to senior citizens trying to make up for the depredations of an unfriendly government are their best hope for survival. it will not come from those who are attacking them. The Burnie Bunnies, the Clintonites nor the Trumpeters. The others can eat stuff and bark at the moon. Added to gether they are not worth one Walmart.

Oriental like Port Townsend Washington which refused them are failing because they asked to fail. It's still cheaper to shop in Port Angeles or to the east than pay the high prices in Townsend - Safeway specials and McDonalds being the exceptions. Walmart in the Sequim area also provides job to the retirement community. Oriental which I am familiar with is a special case community and caters to a special group centered around boating. I suspect the other stores closing are going the way of the old country stores. There was nothing in the article to cause any alarm and i wish home depot would follow leaving better run business like Orchard, Tru-Value and Lowes to survive.
Like Aeropostale they are of not much use.

The news may be alarmist...but it is not necessarily bad.


Unionizing WalMart would be a catastrophe for the retirement and senior citizen community. So would a spread of the $15 an hour minimum wage. But then the seniors are already under attack by Obama and the left starting with the RINOs and continuing to Comrade Sanders. So what else is not new.