That´s OK. It´s an Obama economy, which means everything is rosy and as it should be.

On a serious note, many of these stores are simply dinosaurs who´ve lost touch with their customer base long ago. Can you say "Sears"?

JC Penny´s too #1.

Obama said the economy was doing fine.. I believe him. He needs to sign an Executive Order forbidding thses stores to close./s

I think K-mart could do better if they lived up to their Christmas commercials. Embrace the blue light special and other 70s-era schtick. They will never compete with Wal-mart as equals, so have regular loss-leaders to get people in the door.

Any list that leaves off Best Buy can´t be serious.

KMart keeps advertising here; but there are no KMarts here.

Administration may convert the enormous and growing amount of empty retail space to Obama Safety Net stores. These OSN stores will allow all Americans to sign up for long-term unemployment, food stamps, ObamaCare, mortgage forgiveness, rent supplements, free GM Volts and more.

Every store would feature photos of Obama on golf course, shooting skeet, playing basketball and body surfing. Each OSN store will also feature diet specialists so that the morbidly obese can be given auto pen signed copies of Mooch´s White House Gardening for Demmies book.

They´ll keep Radio Shack open so the Low Info voters can get batteries for their ØDumbø Phones.

In a very short time

"sears" will only be remembered as what one does when cooking.

"penny" will be obsolete along with the piggy bank which was banned for pc

I can´t imagine buying appliances anywhere but Sears and have used Penney´s for throw rugs that last and last and last. EXCEPT the last ones I bought - not so much. Just something else to get used to not being there. It´s happening every time you go to the grocery store. Stop this train. I want to get off.

#5 - Best Buy is #1 on the list

But Obama says 2013 is really going to be a great year economically, because he fixed everything with his super-cooper nifty keen policies. Don´t forget brilliant.

Any deviation from that picture is either a little tiny not worth mentioning temporary slowdown, or else it is the Republican´s fault.

Being a typical male that hates shopping with my wife, I´ve always opted for Sears appliances. One stop shopping. Some of my Craftsman hand tools are at least 40 years old. Appliances have lasted for years and years. So has the marriage. Apparently, I´m doing something right.

I think to "move forward" into the new socialist vision of America, the shopping reality that worked so well in Russia in the ´glory days" of Communism eg. very few stores and empty shelves [except for those catering to the 1%] is where this is headed.

Circuit City was gouging computer purchasers. They brought about their own demise.
J.C. Penney changed its business model. It is not working.
Radio Shack remains alive, but I can see no reason for it to exist any more.

Sears has become totally Mexican here in Texas.
JCP caters to homos and young kids and lost their core customers since that Apple fruit took control.

Best buy has terrible service on their service contracts.
I have a non functioning double oven since Christmas and am still fighting to get it removed.
Their service contracts are expensive and do little to assist when it is a lemon.

I think the future trend of the retail market is definitely with online shopping. There is no way brick and mortar stores can compete with the thousands of online specialty stores. My local hardware store almost never has what I am looking for. If I want almost anything I have to find it online. About the only things I still buy retail at local stores are groceries, gas and big ticket items that would be too heavy to ship like a washer and dryer that can be delivered locally. Tools I can buy online.

I would guess that I read every single day at least 2 to 5 stores, companies, corporations in the US are closing or downsizing. In other words, massive lay-offs and closures of collateral suppliers and wholesalers.

So in what Wizard of Oz, Dippity do Day, Land of the lunatics is the president clamoring on a daily basis that the economy is doing great?

The guy has a seriously mental illness.

Wow. Another Barry success story in the destruction of the economy.

I think this has as much to do with Amazon´s success as it does with the Obama Depression.