Retail apocalypse 2024: All the once-popular stores and restaurants that shuttered locations this year

We’ve seen one bankruptcy after another in a particularly brutal year for the retail business.

We kept it very demure this year. We obsessed over skincare and Taylor Swift and stressed over politics and the price of groceries. But 2024 was also a brutal year for businesses, with a record number of once-bubbling retailers and restaurants shuttering left and right.