The Science and Technology That Will Transform the World of Tomorrow

In 2021, squarely during the pandemic, there were 11,000 net stores added across the U.S. Just when you thought that retailers would have fallen on hard times, there'd be more closures than ever. And the reason has to do with some of the assistance that was given outDuring the pandemic to stores to keep people on payrolls. A note recently from UBS analyst Michael Lassar predicts a return to closures over the next five years.