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“The Cause and Consequences of the Retail Apocalypse”

by thedarkginger on 11/14/17, 11:16 PM with 2 comments

• by voidmain on 11/15/17, 2:26 PM

  Something in this article has to be wrong. A bankruptcy shouldn't result in closing profitable stores, just in a change of ownership from the holders of shares to the holders of debt.

  If a bunch of stores are closing AND a bunch of retail chains are bankrupt, the causal structure seems more likely to be unprofitable->closing and unprofitable->bankrupt, rather than bankrupt->closing which makes no sense.

• by thedarkginger on 11/14/17, 11:17 PM

  Thought this was an interesting addendum to this discussion from last week based on Bloomberg's report:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15653871