US Store Tracker Extra, April 2023: Bed Bath & Beyond Pushes Total Closed Space to 52 Million Square Feet

What's Inside

The US Store Tracker Extra monthly series offers insight into retailers’ store closure and opening announcements and details on closures and openings as a percentage of total store base and square-footage impact. This report also offers a comparison between year-to-date announced closures and openings, as of April 28, 2023, versus the comparable period in 2022.

New this month, we characterize each retailer by type of location—as having stores predominantly on-mall, off-mall or mixed location types.

Data in this report are:

• Year-to-date announced US store closures and openings estimates for 2023, by retailer and location type
• Year-to-date announced 2023 US store closures and openings estimates in gross square feet, by retailer
• US announced store closures and openings: week-by-week comparison of 2023 versus 2022

Companies mentioned in this report include: Amazon, Bed Bath & Beyond, Hobby Lobby, Macy’s and Whole Foods Market

Other relevant research:

• US Store Tracker Extra, March 2023: Retailers To Close 31 Million Square Feet of Retail Space in 2023
• Click here to view our full collection of Weekly US and UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker and monthly US Store Tracker Extra reports
• The Coresight Research US Store Tracker Databank offers our premium subscribers access to openings and closures data from 2012 to 2023 year to date, filterable by sector and year—click here to view.