Store Closure Watch logged 588 closure and distress events for the week of August 1–7, 2026 — 480 closures, 69 bankruptcies, 29 layoffs, and 7 restructurings, up 36.4% week-over-week, driven partly by expanded source coverage. Salad and Go filed Chapter 11 and moved to close all of its roughly 70 remaining locations, Bank of America logged 27 branch closures across 16 states, and Daimler Truck's Portland plant closure (387 jobs) headlined a 58-event manufacturing week.
By the numbers
The Big Story
Drive-through salad chain Salad and Go filed Chapter 11 on August 4 and moved immediately to close all of its roughly 70 remaining locations in Arizona and Nevada, having already exited Texas and Oklahoma earlier this year. The founders of Dutch Bros have agreed to acquire up to 65 of the leases for $105 million with plans to convert the sites, so many of these drive-through pads will change brands rather than sit vacant. It is the sharpest full-chain shutdown of the year — executed in days, not months — and a reminder that closure risk is not limited to legacy brands: the chain was valued near $1 billion in 2022. Eleven Salad and Go records enter the dataset this week.
The week's quietest big number is banking. Bank of America logged 27 branch records across 16 states, and Citizens Bank added six more. This is consolidation rather than distress — banks retire branches as traffic moves online — but every one of those closures is a commercial vacancy with a landlord absorbing it. Starting next week we're adding federal filing data that captures branch closures the press never reports.
Total volume reached 588 events, up 36.4% from last week's 431. Part of that jump is real market movement; part reflects expanded coverage on our side this week, including new state licensure sources and address-level lists for several previously announced closure programs.
Sector Breakdown
- Retail — 246 events. Walgreens (18) continues its store-reduction program across 11 states; Raley's confirmed Northern California closures; Petsense's 74-store wind-down keeps surfacing locations; At Home and West Marine round out the recognizable names.
- Restaurant & Food Service — 146 events. Beyond Salad and Go: the Moe's Southwest Grill franchisee Quality Fresca filed Chapter 11 with lease rejections across Florida, Virginia, and Georgia, and Papa Murphy's corporate closures continue across the Southeast and Midwest.
- Industrial / Manufacturing — 58 events. Daimler Truck's Portland plant closure (387 jobs) headlines; vertical-farming operator 80 Acres Farms is winding down after failing to raise capital; Essendant confirmed a Pennsylvania distribution closure (150 jobs).
- Office & Services — 47 events. Dominated by the Bank of America and Citizens branch batches; True Value's Chicago headquarters closure (effective October) is also recorded here.
- Grocery & Convenience — 17 events. Kroger's previously announced closure program contributed 10 address-level records this week, alongside Aldi and Amazon's Fresh/Go wind-down.
- Logistics / Warehouse — 17 events. FedEx facility records and School Specialty's confirmed Wisconsin closure (59 jobs) lead the category.
Notable Individual Events
- Daimler Truck — Portland, Oregon. Confirmed truck plant closure effective late October, 387 jobs — the week's largest job total tied to a confirmed closure.
- Moe's Southwest Grill (Quality Fresca) — South Florida. Franchisee Chapter 11 filing with 603 jobs affected across three states; the Moe's brand itself is not in bankruptcy.
- Pihakis Restaurant Group — Birmingham, Alabama. The founder behind Hero Doughnuts and Little Donkey filed bankruptcy following the closure of a dozen restaurants across four Southern states.
- Gringos Locos — Orlando, Florida. The late-night staple abruptly closed all four of its locations after 17 years.
- Starbucks — Seattle, Washington. An effective closure carrying a WARN filing for 69 jobs — notable as a rare WARN-scale event for the chain in its home market.
- Infineon Technologies — Mesa, Arizona. Confirmed semiconductor facility closure with a WARN filing.
- Hackney's on Lake — Glenview, Illinois. The Chicago-area institution will close in early September after more than 70 years; its sister location continues.
- AMC Classic Mount Vernon 8 — Mount Vernon, Illinois. The southern Illinois theater screens its final films August 20.
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. Seventy-eight 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 August 9, 2026, following weekly deduplication and quality review.