I love you all like very distant relatives- but that doesn’t mean I don’t care about your finances.
Thanks to this awesomely constipated money flow we’ve got going on I think it only the responsible thing to do- A LIST OF RECENT STORE CLOSINGS IN THE U.S.OF A. 
If you have any “gift cards” from these stores- USE ‘EM OR LOSE ‘EM!
These stores informed the Security Exchange of closing plans between October 2008 and January 2009.
- Circuit City stores
- Ann Taylor- 117 stores nationwide are to be shuttered
- Lane Bryant
- Fashion Bug
- Catherine’s to close 150 store nationwide
- Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January
- Cache will close all stores
- Talbots closing down all stores
- J. Jill closing all stores
- GAP closing 85 stores
- Footlocker closing 140 stores more to close after January
- Wickes Furniture closing down
- Levitz closing down remaining stores
- Bombay closing remaining stores
- Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January.
- Whitehall closing all stores
- Piercing Pagoda closing all stores
- Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.
- Home Depot closing 15 stores 1 in NJ ( New Brunswick )
- Macys to close 9 stores after January
- Linens and Things closing all stores
- Movie Galley Closing all stores
- Pacific Sunware closing stores
- Pep Boys Closing 33 stores
- Sprint/ Nextel closing 133 stores
- JC Penney closing a number of stores after January
- Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.
- Wilson Leather closing down all stores
- Sharper Image closing down all stores
- K B Toys closing 356 stores
- Loews to close down some stores
- Dillard’s to close some stores.
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