Brick-and-Mortar Retail Meltdown Has a Busy Month by Wolf Richter • May 31, 2017 • 68 Comments After years of asset stripping by private equity firms and hedge funds.
Sears Revenues Plunge, to Hit Zero in 3 Years, Shares Jump by Wolf Richter • May 25, 2017 • 80 Comments The ingenious strategy of cost-cutting and store-closing your way out of trouble: Pretty soon, it leads to zero.
Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown No Problem: Online Retail Startups Shift into Brick-and-Mortar by Wolf Richter • May 16, 2017 • 81 Comments With a tinge of bitter irony and perhaps desperation.
Worst Restaurant Tailspin since 2009/2010 Crushes Lower End by Wolf Richter • May 12, 2017 • 72 Comments “Rising household debt load” to “suppress consumption, including eating out.”
Retail Meltdown Demolishes Mall Investors by Wolf Richter • May 9, 2017 • 76 Comments Even the biggest.
I’m in Awe of How Fast Brick-and-Mortar Retail is Melting Down by Wolf Richter • Apr 24, 2017 • 180 Comments As so many times, Private Equity firms are in the thick of it.
Atlanta Fed GDPNow Forecast Spirals Closer to Zero by Wolf Richter • Apr 14, 2017 • 45 Comments From bad to worse, hammered by retail sales and inflation.
Restaurants in Worst Tailspin since 2009/2010 by Wolf Richter • Apr 13, 2017 • 85 Comments This thermometer for discretionary spending is the first to react when consumers hit their limits.
Restaurant Recession Meets February Debacle by Wolf Richter • Mar 11, 2017 • 72 Comments What does inflation have to do with it?
“Retailers Are the New Oil & Gas,” Only Worse by Wolf Richter • Mar 7, 2017 • 88 Comments I’ve been doom-and-gloom on brick-and-mortar retail. But I haven’t been nearly doom-and-gloom enough, given the events of the past seven days. Includes my interview with The Financial Exchange, WRKO Boston.
