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Weekly US and UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker 2025, Week 3: Joann Files for Bankruptcy Again as US Closures Cross 2,000

Our Weekly US and UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker series reports on store closures, openings and bankruptcies. This week, we detail recent announcements from major retailers, including 7-Eleven, Kohl’s and Macy’s. Non-store-closure news includes the appointment of a new CEO at Shoes for Crews, as well as a new Chief Operating Officer at The Entertainer.

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Retail 2025: 10 AI Trends—An Inflection Point in the GenAI Revolution

Dive into 10 critical AI (artificial intelligence) trends for 2025. Spanning retail media, agentic AI and more, our recommendations help you understand how to harness the power of AI to drive real business results, aligning with the Coresight Research CORE Framework for AI in retail. This research report is made available to non-subscribers through its sponsorship by invent.ai.

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Retail 2025: 10 Trends in Retail Technology

We present 10 key technologies that we expect to be influential in retail in 2025, spanning the physical store, e-commerce and operations. From retail media expansion to the power of GenAI (generative artificial intelligence) in the supply chain, understand what is significant today and what will be important in the year ahead. This research report is made available to non-subscribers through its sponsorship by Intel.

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Retail 2025: China Retail Predictions

Our annual report on the China retail market—part of our Retail 2025 series of outlook reports—details six predictions around trends that Coresight Research expects to transform retail in the country throughout 2025. From the impact of government stimulus packages to the “pingti” trend and GenAI (generative artificial intelligence), discover the key trends of the China retail market.

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Party City and Big Lots To Close All Stores: What’s the $100 Billion Elephant in the Room?

Two major US retailers, Big Lots and Party City, are closing. Big Lots stated that it will conduct an out-of-business sale following the failure of a deal to sell the company, while Party City plans to close all its stores. We argue that these closures are indicative of an underrecognized pressure on retailers, which we identify as totaling about $100 billion in scale.

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