Content originally published at iBankCoin.com The media is working over time to give retailers good press, seeing that they're all but destroyed now. Long stories filled with anecdotal quotes from store managers litter the internet today, exclaiming the virtues being able to touch and feel items

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, If the U.S. economy is doing just fine, why have we already shattered the all-time record for retail store closings in a single year?  Whenever I write about our “retail apocalypse”, many try to counter my arguments by pointing out the

On October 11, we reported that the now defunct Sears Canada announced plans to liquidate its remaining 150 stores instead of restructuring, the latest admission of brick and mortar defeat in the war with Amazon, with the result some 12,000 job losses in the coming weeks. The Canadian version of

Ending a business relationship that dates back more than 100 years, Sears announced this morning it would no longer sell Whirlpool appliances. As first reported by the WSJ, in a note sent to its stores last week, Sears said that Whirlpool was making demands that would have made it difficult to sell

With Toys 'R' Us having already filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy, in a move that came as a shock to most of its bondholders, suddenly the race between Bon-Ton Stores and Sears Holdings who will file next, is entering its last lap. For those who may have missed it, late last week, in a scenario right