🠈 COVID19 Closures 🠊
COVID19 Closures
The COVID19 pandemic racked the world economy in 2020. This page will list national chains and large businesses that cited COVID19 in a bankruptcy or closure.
- Pier 1 Imports closed 450 stores in January due to declining sales. They closed the entire chain in June 2020.
- Sizzler declared bankruptcy in 2020.
- The mall based chain Christopher & Banks declared bankruptcy in 2021. They were delisted from NYSE in 2019 citing declining mall sales. Since most of their product came from China they suffered from tariffs imposed by Trump administration.
- 2021: cicis, a pizza buffet chain, filed bankruptcy and emerged with new owners.