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Clothing racks inside a retail store, representative of mall apparel retailers

Victoria’s Secret’s profit jumped sixfold last quarter, and the chain added ten net new stores while other mall retailers keep shrinking

October 1, 2026 Fashion

You’ve probably noticed the mall emptying out store by store for years now. A familiar name closes. A space sits...

A Kay Jewelers Outlet store sign at a shopping outlet mall

Signet Jewelers, the parent of Kay and Zales, is closing dozens more stores and shutting down two of its online jewelry brands for good

October 1, 2026 Fashion

There’s a quiet kind of shopping-mall math most of us only notice once a store is already gone. You drive...

"Store Closing, Everything Must Go" signs hang in a shuttered mall storefront

A 43-year-old discount fashion chain, run for decades by the same family and staffed almost entirely by women, is closing its last store for good.

September 30, 2026 Fashion

For 43 years, Frugal Fannie’s Fashion Warehouse in Westwood, Massachusetts sold discounted designer clothing to generations of New England shoppers...

Tapestry announced its latest earnings show Kate Spade shrinking to 326 stores while sister brand Coach expanded to 973 locations.

September 26, 2026 Fashion

There’s a particular kind of heartbreak in watching a brand you love quietly disappear from your mall. If you’ve noticed...

A busy indoor shopping mall with a glass ceiling and storefronts

Victoria’s Secret says sales climbed 10 percent last quarter, even as shoppers widely assumed the retailer was still struggling to win customers back.

September 23, 2026 Fashion

You’ve probably absorbed the same story about Victoria’s Secret for years now — a once-dominant mall brand losing relevance, closing...

The storefront of a Journeys shoe store inside a shopping mall

Journeys’ parent company closed 25 more mall stores this summer as shoppers keep shifting toward open-air centers, according to the retailer’s own quarterly filing.

September 22, 2026 Fashion

If the Journeys near you closed sometime in the last few years and you assumed it was just your mall...