In addition to our normal news coverage, What Now Atlanta is tracking ways Atlanta’s businesses are adapting to the novel coronavirus and the challenges it brings to brick-and-mortars.
While local restaurants have been hit hard by the novel coronavirus, retailers big and small, are also permanently closing up shop citing financial hardship brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak.
Retailers with a national presence are able to scrape by, closing only “underperforming” stores as part of Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings, while small operations are having to shut down completely.
As with our list of permanently-shuttered restaurants, this one will be updated regularly with the most recently-surfaced retail closures at the top. Please email us here if you know of a closure.
ADDED June 28, 2020
Lenox Square, Perimeter Mall Among Stores Microsoft Will Permanently Close
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The Cook’s Warehouse Chamblee Shutters Leaving Lone Ansley Mall Store
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Peridot To Shutter For Good After 30 Years June 17
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ADDED June 14, 2020
JCPenney Closing Seven Georgia Stores Including One in Atlanta
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Retail Staple Charles Willis Closes After 60+ Years
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Pier 1 Imports To Permanently Shutter All Stores Including 20 In Georgia
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Iconic Atlanta Retailer Jeffrey Closes For Good After 30 Years
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Nordstrom Closing 16 Stores, Atlanta Not Included
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[Editor’s note: The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is rapidly evolving as is its effect on Atlanta, and the City’s businesses and its residents. Click here for What Now Atlanta’s ongoing coverage of the crisis. For guidance and updates on the pandemic, please visit the C.D.C. website.]
6 Responses
Get your test 48 hours prior, then go out and mingle and mix with people doing your everyday thing, then go to the party with that false sense of security all the while spreading it everywhere. People don’t get it.
Exactly, a test is a snapshot in time. This seems highly irresponsible. Totally a facade and will provide guests a false sense of security. They’d be better off preparing meal kits to go like so many other restaurants are doing for NYE.
If they really cared they wouldn’t be holding the bash, Far too risky and they are just engaging in CYA. So so reckless…..
I have ZERO interest in any business that participates in the bull*hit draconian measures set in place by a government gone too far.
Good to know.
I feel safer already.
Right, only 300,000 plus people have died for what Trump has called a hoax and a flu. We’re dealing with a raging Trump Pandemic. Trump has sunk lower than Bin Laden and Hitler. And morons are still brainwashed by his BS