Apartments, hockey rinks and Amazon warehouses: Macy's closures will set off a wave of change at shopping malls
Melissa Repkosearch.app
Apartments, hockey rinks and Amazon warehouses: Macy's closures will set off a wave of change at shopping malls
Social and cultural poverty is tightly linked to economic poverty. The U.S. Small Business Administration estimates that smaller retailers drive 44 percent of the economy. Allowing them to fail, writes Retail Dive, “would be a blow to the country’s general welfare.” The big, mass, and vertically integrated retailers are undoubtedly hurting. They st... See more
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