Editing Chain store (section)

===Decline===
{{main|Retail apocalypse}}
[[Brick-and-mortar]] chain stores have been in decline as retail has shifted to [[online shopping]], leading to historically high retail vacancy rates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/20181112/printedition/311089962/amid-brick-and-mortar-shakeup-greater-hartfords-retail-vacancy-rate-shrinks|title=Amid brick-and-mortar shakeup, Greater Hartford's retail vacancy rate shrinks|website=Hartford Business Journal|access-date=8 January 2019|archive-date=January 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108201201/http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/20181112/printedition/311089962/amid-brick-and-mortar-shakeup-greater-hartfords-retail-vacancy-rate-shrinks|url-status=live}}</ref> The hundred-year-old [[Radio Shack]] chain went from 7,400 stores in 2001 to 400 stores in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/322966|title=RadioShack Is Now Selling in Unexpected Places. Will Anyone Buy?|first=Clint|last=Carter|date=27 November 2018|website=Entrepreneur|access-date=8 January 2019|archive-date=December 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201051232/https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/322966|url-status=live}}</ref> [[FYE (retailer)|FYE]] is the last remaining music chain store in the United States and has shrunk from over 1,000 at its height to 270 locations in 2018.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7710038/bob-higgins-trans-world-fye-dead-at-75|title=Bob Higgins, Pioneering Founder of Trans World and FYE, Dead at 75|magazine=Billboard|access-date=8 January 2019|archive-date=December 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206212718/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7710038/bob-higgins-trans-world-fye-dead-at-75|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, [[Payless ShoeSource]] stated that it would be closing all remaining 2,100 stores in the US.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/business/payless-closing-stores-bankrupt/index.html|title=Payless is closing all its 2,100 US stores|first=Ahiza|last=Garcia|website=CNN Business|publisher=CNN|date=February 16, 2019 |access-date=February 19, 2019|archive-date=February 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219072942/https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/business/payless-closing-stores-bankrupt/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>