BrandPost: Overcoming the ‘Retail Apocalypse’

The retail industry is undergoing a sea change so massive that many industry insiders have termed it the “retail apocalypse.” In a sign of this industry upheaval, in 2018 major retailers closed 5,524 stores in the U.S. and 1,432 stores in the U.K., according to figures compiled by the Coresight Research, a firm that studies the retail industry.1But that was 2018.  In some good news for the industry, Coresight predicts that 2019 “will not be the year of retail apocalypse o