The US Retail Industry Will Face A Lot Of Closes.

A report from the United States said that by 2018, the retail industry in the United States will have a large-scale closing trend due to the expiry of the $70 billion retail lease contract.

The report said that in the next 48 months, 6% of office supplies supplier tenancies, 51% of exclusive retailers' leases and 47% of convenience store tenancies are about to expire.

In the context of the impact of electricity suppliers and high cost, large retailers are maximizing their capital in the form of large capital operation.

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As more and more retail activities move online, businesses are reassessing the significance of physical stores.

Information shows that

In the past three years, the number of the top 100 retailers in the US has increased from over 12% to less than 3%.

According to this trend, the number of shops that occupy the leading position in the advanced shop category will be more and more, such as Sears, Sears and Staples (Staples).

Most of them will close nearly 10% of shops.

However, compared with retailers, the lease of drugstore chains, auto retailers and auto parts suppliers has been expanding in the same period, with 15%, 20% and 28% growth respectively.

Since the second half of 2012, large retailers have become very difficult to make profits in China, and retail stores such as supermarket chains, convenience stores and department stores have begun to shop quietly.

Statistics show that in the first half of this year, China's main retail businesses closed a total of 158 stores, far exceeding the number of 35 stores in 2013.

Among them, the number of stores in the supermarket is the largest, with 146 stores.

Compared with American retailers' efficient and mature IT system and logistics, the maturity of China's retail enterprises is low and its scale is insufficient.

This has also become the most important reason for the large retailers in China.