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Retail’s Abysmal Week: Will Liquidation Sales Follow?

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As the number of retail bankruptcies start to pile up from companies whose final destruction was caused by the coronavirus pandemic, we are about to see a massive round of close-out, going-out-of-business, liquidation sales,” says Forbes. Even before the effects of the COVID crisis, those companies have struggled to meet their numbers.

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