Since June 2015, retail chains have accumulated more than $45 billion in aggregate chapter 11 liabilities in connection with over 80 bankruptcy filings:

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47,000 Stores Shutter Across The US As Virtually All Retailers Stop Paying Rent
TLyler Durdan
3-25-20
.. resulting in tens of thousands of stores across the nation shuttering. CONTIUE READING: https://w0w.zerohedge.com/economics/total-halt-47000-stores-shutter-across-us-virtually-all-retailers-stop-paying-rent
Even before the coronavirus pandemic ground the US economy to a halt, the US brick and mortar retail sector was facing an apocalypse of epic proportions with dozens of retailers filing for bankruptcy in recent years as Amazon stole everyone's market share...