Retail Closures Week of July 18–24, 2026: 396 Events — A Full Mall's Tenant Roster Enters the Data

Store Closure Watch logged 396 closure and distress events for the week of July 18–24, 2026 — 321 closures, 52 bankruptcies, 12 restructurings, and 11 layoffs, up 9.4% week-over-week. Portland's Lloyd Center closing August 8 put all 42 of its tenants into the file at once, Maple Street Biscuits posted the week's largest chain total amid its sale by Cracker Barrel, and Tractor Supply's rolling ~75-store Petsense shutdown began surfacing.

The Big Story

This week's file shows what it looks like when a whole mall closes at once. Portland's Lloyd Center — a fixture since 1960 — shuts for good on August 8, and its full tenant roster entered the dataset this week: 42 businesses closing together, from national names like GameStop, Hot Topic, and Auntie Anne's to dozens of local independents, an ice rink, and two health clinics. That single event pushed Oregon to the top of the state table with 43 records, ahead of Texas (23), Florida (23), and New Jersey (21).

The week's largest chain total belongs to Maple Street Biscuits, which posted 15 closure records as the brand changes hands in its sale by Cracker Barrel. Tractor Supply's wind-down of its Petsense pet-store banner also began surfacing, with 9 records across two name variants this week against a announced program of roughly 75 stores — a rolling shutdown with no published list, which our locator monitoring is tracking as it progresses.

Retail overall ran well above its recent pace — 228 records against a trailing eight-week average of 153 — while restaurants came in below their norm. Total volume reached 396 events, up 9.4% from last week's 362.

Sector Breakdown

• Retail — 222 events. The Lloyd Center roster, Staples (6), Nike (9), Stop & Shop, and REI among the recognizable names; well above the sector's recent average.
• Restaurant & Food Service — 80 events. Maple Street Biscuits (15) leads; Big Chicken, Subway, Wendy's, and a long tail of independents follow. Below the sector's recent pace.
• Industrial / Manufacturing — 39 events. Led by a hard week for Wisconsin cheesemaking: Shullsburg Creamery and White Hill Cheese, both in Shullsburg, WI, each with WARN filings covering 97 jobs.
• Corporate Bankruptcy — 17 events. New filings including printing houses on both coasts, a cooperage, and a tugboat operator.
• Logistics / Warehouse — 10 events. Headlined by the former Kmart distribution complex in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania (147 jobs) and Amazon's PBI3 facility in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
• Healthcare — 7 events. Including the Proton Center of Arkansas and two HSHS occupational-health clinics in Illinois.

Notable Individual Events

• Amazon (PBI3) — Port St. Lucie, Florida. Confirmed facility closure with a WARN filing covering 494 jobs — the week's largest single job impact.
• Kmart warehouse (Transform Warehouse Operations) — Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. One of the last vestiges of the Sears/Kmart logistics network, confirmed closed with 147 jobs affected.
• Shullsburg Creamery and White Hill Cheese — Shullsburg, Wisconsin. Twin closures in one small town, each carrying a WARN filing for 97 jobs — a heavy blow for a community of about 1,200 people.
• Burlington Finishing Plant — Burlington, North Carolina. Confirmed textile plant closure with 150 jobs affected per its WARN notice.
• No Meat Factory — Stanwood, Washington. The plant-based-protein manufacturer confirmed a closure affecting 123 jobs.
• The Cannabist Co. — Denver, Colorado. Cultivation and manufacturing facility entered bankruptcy with a WARN filing covering 50 jobs.
• Lloyd Center — Portland, Oregon. The mall's August 8 closing date puts all 42 current tenants on a common countdown; each is tracked individually in the dataset.

Methodology

Store Closure Watch records are AI-extracted from company announcements, WARN notices, court dockets, and news coverage, then audited with an independent verification pass and cross-referenced against state WARN filings before publication. Thirty-six of this week's records carry WARN filings. Every record carries a source link and confidence flag, and each weekly file contains only events newly identified that week — re-coverage of previously reported closures is deduplicated against our full history. Public roundups report chain names and city or metro areas only; street addresses, coordinates, and per-record source links are available to subscribers. Learn more about how the data pipeline works.

Figures reflect the dataset as of July 26, 2026, following weekly deduplication and quality review.