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Defunct retailer Circuit City is coming back as an online store, one of several brick-and-mortar retailers that have gone belly up only to be revived online.

Zombie retailers close stores nationally, hoping for an online afterlife

December 15, 2018 at 1:04 a.m.

"Everything dies, baby, that's a fact. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back." —"Atlantic City" by Bruce Springsteen In retail, some brands that could no longer cut it with...

In August 2016, department store giant Macy's said that it plans to close 100 stores, a dramatic step that is aimed at helping the chain get ahead of a potentially crippling problem: America, they say, has too many stores for the online shopping era. Following a disappointing 2016 holiday season, it said it is eliminating more than 10,000, as well.

How teens and smartphones are killing teen-fashion retailers

June 5, 2018 at 2:56 p.m.

Mipri Haye, a high school junior, is on Instagram and Snapchat daily, showing off her latest outfits to her girlfriends. She also shares where she got those clothes: Forever 21,...

`Active adults’ fueling Philadelphia boom

August 19, 2021 at 11:59 a.m.

Over two years, Donald Weisenstein has walked a tract of land in Woolwich Township like a nomad. He even keeps a pair of boots in his car in case it...

PHARMACY’S SPECIAL ROLE

August 9, 2021 at 9:52 p.m.

For five years, Paul Wilensky telephoned a national distributor to mail-order the medication that would help keep him alive. He feared being spotted buying the specialty drug in a public...

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