The retail industry is undergoing a sea change so massive that many industry insiders have termed it the “retail apocalypse.” In a sign of this industry upheaval, in 2018 major retailers closed 5,524 stores in the U.S. and 1,432 stores in the U.K., according to figures compiled by the Coresight Research, a firm that studies the retail industry.1
But that was 2018. In some good news for the industry, Coresight predicts that 2019 “will not be the year of retail apocalypse or even decline. Instead, it will be a year of reinvention — for the retail sector as a whole and for physical stores in particular.”2
