About
Evidence-first, multi-sector closure intelligence.
Store Closure Watch is a product of Four Lights Analytics LLC. We track closures across retail, restaurant, grocery, industrial, logistics, healthcare, office, and hospitality — sectors where distress often surfaces before it reaches retail vacancy data, which is only published quarterly. Every record is source-linked, confidence-flagged, and cross-referenced against WARN filings and court dockets — not scraped headlines.
Founder
Store Closure Watch is built by Michael Madden, founder of Four Lights Analytics LLC. Michael's background is in open-source intelligence (OSINT) and data pipeline engineering, with years of field experience in Taiwan and professional Mandarin fluency — an edge for cross-referencing sources that headline-scraping competitors miss.
He built the Store Closure Watch pipeline end to end: a system that monitors nearly 1,500 weekly search queries, WARN notices, and bankruptcy filings, extracts facility-level records automatically, and audits every record with an independent verification pass and human review before it reaches subscribers.
Methodology
Evidence-first
Every record carries a source link. If we can't attribute it, we don't publish it.
Confidence flagging
Each record is scored and flagged so you know how strong the signal is before you act.
WARN cross-reference
Facility closures and layoffs are matched against state WARN filings for corroboration and jobs-impacted counts.
Automated extraction, independent audit
Automated extraction produces the first-pass records; an independent verification pass and human review catch extraction errors before delivery.
Weekly cadence
Each brief contains the week's newly identified events — collected through Friday night, deduplicated against the full dataset over the weekend so records are never re-sent, and delivered Monday morning as CSV and Excel.
Contact
Questions, partnerships, or coverage requests: [email protected].
Act before your competitors see it in trade publications.
Weekly verified closure data across retail, industrial, and logistics — with addresses, source links, and confidence flags. $99/month. Cancel anytime.