Here’s Where Retail Sales Spiked and Collapsed in 11 Mind-Blowing Charts of Lockdown Land by Wolf Richter • Apr 15, 2020 • 165 Comments But department stores will never recover; they were toast before the lockdowns.
Post-Lockdown New Normal: Many Brick & Mortar Stores Will Not Reopen, CMBS will Default, Mess to Ensue by Wolf Richter • Mar 30, 2020 • 245 Comments Neither the Fed nor the Treasury can bail out brick-and-mortar retailers.
Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown Gets Costly for Big Retailers, and Results May Vary by Wolf Richter • Jun 19, 2019 • 46 Comments Ecommerce and globalization of retail crush distribution channels, wholesalers, local retailers, large retailers, prices, and margins.
Walmart’s Desperate $3.3 Billion Acquisition of Jet.com Fails. But it Now Discloses its US Online Sales, and They’re Big by Wolf Richter • Jun 13, 2019 • 60 Comments Ecommerce is an existential threat to Walmart, and it’s furiously trying to get on top of it, whatever the cost may be.
What the CEO of America’s Largest Mall REIT, Simon Property Group, Just Said about the Brick & Mortar Meltdown and How it’s Trying to Manage It by Wolf Richter • Feb 2, 2019 • 62 Comments “I prefer not to scare you at this point, okay. But it’s something that we’ve been able to withstand”: CEO David Simon.
The Fed Broadsides $1.3-Trillion “Leveraged Loan” Market by Wolf Richter • Nov 6, 2018 • 52 Comments In detail: ‘Collateral Stripping,’ ‘Incremental Facilities,’ ‘Cov-Lite,’ & ‘EBITDA Add-Backs’
Defaults of Retailers Hit “All-Time High” in Q1: Moody’s by Wolf Richter • Apr 10, 2018 • 29 Comments Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown sets record. And Q2 starts out on the right foot.
The Private Equity Firms at the Core of Brick & Mortar Retail Bankruptcies by Wolf Richter • Jan 22, 2018 • 97 Comments An astounding list of the meltdown: PE firms doomed the retailers.
Peak US Asset Prices? Japanese Acquisitions Hit Record by Wolf Richter • Aug 27, 2017 • 24 Comments Their buying binge in the US goes into the “Contrarian Indicators” category.
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.
