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https://www.moneydigest.com/1825884/why-walmart-stores-closing-2025/ https://www.thestreet.com/retail/walmart-cvs-panera-and-more-quietly-close-more-stores Daniel Kline Aug 3, 2025 9:08 AM EDT Reviewed by Celine Provini These retailers have quietly closed stores in 2025 While some closures get more attention than others, these have flown under the radar. In most cases that's by design, as companies don't want the negative local publicity that comes from closing until the shutdown process has already begun. Walmart Locations closed in July-August 2025 in Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Often cited for underperformance, crime, or changing local demand. CVS Still executing previously announced plan (900 stores over 3 years). Panera Bread Some franchisees are closing low-volume locations quietly. Rite Aid Bankruptcy-related closures, but many new rounds still being added. Entire company is being shut down. Family Dollar / Dollar Tree 1,000+ closures expected by the end of 2025. Walgreens Continued "store footprint optimization" through mid-2025. Macy’s Closing 66 stores, with 150 total closures expected by 2026. Maybe 154 store closures were in 2016 and Walmart may have completed those by 2024, Walmart is closing an additional 11. But...that is not the issue here. The issue is that OTHER retailers are closing as well. And its a significant amount. I guess Gen Zers are to blame for this as well? At the end of the day, it does NOT matter if Gen Zers are not drinking whiskey. At the end of the day, Trump's tariffs are killing the US economy ALL AROUND. Turn a blind eye to it, tell me Im posting misinformation or that Im gullible to not believe what the Kentucky bourbon industry is telling us, call me anything you want...tariffs were called no good for the economy. And tariffs are reeling the benefits as we speak right now. What are those benefits? You guys have a brain. Believe what you wanna believe. God bless America!!! Just hope he forgives you for turning a blind eye to all those Epstein and Trump victims...

As I sees it, Ford, even though in Europe, Ford is considered to be more or less a Euro company, will have a hard time selling its cars there. Trump has tried to hurt Europe with tariffs and Europeans will boycott Ford with that. Its not as if European car makers do not exist. GM is not even in the European car market. China? Forget about how the Chinese population favours their own car makers, GM and Ford as of now, 2025, are BEHIND in EV tech. Im not sure about quality and reliability, but in tech, way behind. GM and Ford will never sell EVs to be profitable in China. Those days when GM made money hands over fists in China are loooooong gone. Ford entered that market way to late. Stellantis is European. China has flooded the world with affordable EVs. People in South America, unless these people are drug lord cartel people, Hummer EVs are not bread and butter for GM. In South America, Chinese EVs will rule the roost. If they are not already. Which leaves Stellantis, Ford and GM strictly a North American market to sell to. Tariffs are making the bread and butter vehicles out of reach for the average American to buy, so I do not see Ford and GM selling tons of cars in our market either. Many Americans are upside down on their car loans at least 4 cars in. Meaning, their car loans have been rolled unto their new car purchase 4 new cars ago... The economy will bust soon. How soon? Will it be 2029 soon? Yeah! Quite possible!!! Remember, the world has largely agreed to go gasoline free for pedestrian vehicles by the earliest 2035. 2040? GM has pleaded by 2035. It does not matter if Trump rescinds this in the US. THE WORLD has decided that in THEIR countries, a whole bunch of them, will cease the sale of new EVs by 2035. 2040? Just around the corner... Like you said...Hellcat powered anything wont do shyte even in the US...

As it shouldn't. 2 terms. No more. Yup. Your constitution and your legislative, executive and judicial branches as defined by your constitution are all rock solid. He hasnt, nor does he now and he wont in the future try to over power it in any way shape or form. Yup. 2 terms. Without any incident or issue. Wont cry any fowl. Wont cling unto power. Will not abuse his powers. Will not do anything but concede. If you say so and hopefully the people defending the constitution in all facets of everybody will also uphold the constitution...

Quite possible... As that is my point... And my skepticism... So I guess Kentucky bourbon industry isnt suffering then. Misinformation all around. My bad. Tariffs arent hampering your economy either.

Will it happen or wont it happen? Only Trump, his kids and his administration truly know the answer to that future.

No feelings. Just facts. But I see as to how Americans are in this predicament... You keep on thinking that Gen Z is a cause... It seems that you are believing with feelings...

And you really believe that he will relinquish his office in 2028? But you did ask me a question. GM profit down 35% in Q2 of 2025. Net profit so far in Q2 is 1.9 billion from 47 billion revenue. https://gmauthority.com/blog/2025/07/gm-q2-2025-earnings-revenue-income-profit/#:~:text=GM Q2 2025 earnings are,1.8 percent drop in revenue. And tariffs havent really been activated fully. And Trump keeps on redacting and modifying because his admin actually does know the damage being done. But GM is really hurtin' not even a full year into Trump's presidency JUST as the Ultium EV collection has been taking off for GM. GM needs ALL their profits to engineer Ultium 2.0 and to better combat a possible Chinese onslaught in North America and of course all over the world. There are Chinese EVs in the Mexican market. Not yet in Canada as our politicians are keeping hope alive as to still salvage a partnership with the US. But that hope is diminishing. Canada has gone elsewhere for economic partnerships and the last bastion of a US/Canada partnership IS in the automotive industry. And the ONLY reason why Canada hasnt jumped ship in that industry just yet is because we do not fully trust China. But its truly sad to be putting not trusting the US in the same breath as not trusting China... So yeah...GM is on shaky ground for 2029. Bankrupt in 2029? Not quite but not far off if current trends are keeping the line. The Trump regime has become an autocracy. Not a dictatorship. There is a difference. One that the civilians have allowed and not by force. I wonder what WILL happen in 2028? You think the constitution will be honoured? In many areas it hasnt...

Thank you for acknowledging the obvious... But you did ask me a question for me to address. Gen Z. 1997-2012 2024 (because problems started last last year...)- 21 (drinking age) = 2003 2018 would be the first year Gen Zers drank whiskey as they came of age to drink. 6 years of Gen Zers drinking but as soon Ticky Tocky told Gen Zers to drink more healthily, than ALL of Gen Z stopped drinking whiskey simultaneously causing all this mess. 6-7 years worth of Gen Zers drinking and THAT is the cause for bankruptcy. Have the Boomers completely stopped drinking whiskey too? What about Gen Xers? I dunno how popular whiskey was with Gen X, but I do know that Gen X drank a lot when we were in our 20s. And from the Kentucky area only as the one from Tennessee aint really complainin' loudly about Gen Z being a problem. But he did complain about Canada dropping his brand from ALL Canadian liquor stores. He did laugh and say that Canadian sales do not account much anyway. But I didnt hear him complain about Gen Z at all in the beginning of this mess... So Gen Zers targeted Kentucky bourbon area distilleries only... When this first happened, NO article mentioned Gen Z about a possible problem... https://abcnews.go.com/Business/kentucky-bourbon-industry-caught-middle-global-tariff-war/story?id=119675707 https://globalnews.ca/news/11068673/donald-trump-tariffs-us-alcohol-canada/ https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2025/03/07/canada-spirits-rep-tariffs https://www.courier-journal.com/story/life/food/spirits/bourbon/2025/02/03/canadas-decision-to-stop-buying-us-alcohol-will-hurt-kentucky-bourbon/78177222007/ https://theconversation.com/u-s-tariff-threat-how-it-will-impact-different-products-and-industries-248824 https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-kentucky-bourbon-trump-canada-europe-11bbb928bcacccb6ba35c31522783e14 Me thinks American journalism is trying to soften the blow about how shytty Trump really is and trying to lay blame elsewhere. Yeah. Hard NO to the excuse that Gen Z is causing a 9 billion dollar industry to go bust all of a sudden when its the world actually BOYCOTTING American whiskey BECAUSE of Trump's needless and useless tariff war. https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article307948565.html This articles states that Jack Daniels erased a decades worth of growth. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jack-daniels-parent-sees-weight-loss-drugs-cannabis-hurting-liquor-sales-bce7beea This article blames weight loss drugs, cannabis and Gen Z. Yeah...coincidentally all those factors stopped a decades long growth JUST to end it on tic tok fads of last year. NOT because Tennessee is a Red State, and that the world has targeted to boycott Red State products. THIS is my opinion of course. You cant really blame me for being skeptical... Cheers with Canadian Club this time around Elbows Up!!!

The point is that going forward, Ford EVs: 1. This is a new way of assembling vehicles. The new production line is now a production tree with three branches that converge into one. 2. Ford has cut a lot of weight out of the platform. 4,000 fewer feet of wiring harness, 25% less fastener. Lower weight will mean more range with less battery. 3. LFP cells that are built in the US without cobalt or nickle. 4. Faster production, while overall production time will drop 15%, the assembly process will drop 40%. Ford will use some of that savings to in-source some component production. 5. 52,000 sq/ft expansion of Louisville facility. 6. Ford claims lower total cost to own than buying a 3-year old Model-Y. (I'd like to read the fine print on this one) 7. The way the components are assembled is now significantly more ergonomic, less twisting and bending for assembly workers. There was an audible gasp from someone in the crowd of assembly workers at the press event when the presenter said "You will never need to put a dash cluster through a door opening ever again". 8. The platform will allow many kinds of body styles including crossovers, sedans, and sport cars. The debut vehicle will arrive in 2027 as a mid-size truck. Something that Tesla did with #1, #2 , and #4 on that list a decade ago. Something that GM is doing with #8 on that list with the Ultium platform as it was once called. Something that Ford should have done from the very beginning when they came out with the Mach-E. Tesla and SandY Monroe were tooting that for the Model 3. I guess FoMoCo had to get the Mach-E out as fast as possible then though. Dont get me wrong, I fully agree with your post 100%. I was about to say better late than never, but I think with this Presidential administration, Ford will probably not survive Trump's presidency. Nor Stellantis in the US. And Im very iffy if GM survives too if the current tariff situation on Canadian steel and aluminium stays on. Sad to say.

Yup. The Canadian Premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (just before his resignation and our elections) decided to retaliate and target Red states because of tariffs and most importantly, the 51st state rhetoric. So...whiskey production and headquarters are mostly at Red States. So off came the American booze from our Province owned and run liquor stores. Jack Daniels CEO laughed at that as he said Ontario and Canadian liquor sales is but a mere 1 or 2 percent of Jack Daniels sales. Then he realized that his product is OFF the phoquing shelves and then he complained foul game play... But its definitely fine when his President declares annexation towards Canada... Its OK for tariffs... Maybe Jack Daniels might not be suffering too much, but the smaller Kentucky distilleries are in danger. Some are filing for bankruptcy. 9 billion dollar industry and one man has destroyed it. Not too forget the tourism industry. New York, Maine, Florida, Nevada and even California is feeling the pinch when Canadians decided to give Americans the middle finger. Red States or even Blue... When Trump STILL threatens annexation and most Americans are oblivious of that fact, never you mind empathy towards us Canadians...the middle finger and avoidance of anything American is a proper response from us Canadians. What is even sadder, American rights and freedoms are being stripped and yet not push back from American citizens. THAT is just UNACCEPTABLE. Fight for your rights people. Soon you wont have any. Big Three CEOs and accountants keep begging Trump to ditch the tariffs. He wont ditch them. He wants to control the Canadian steel and aluminium industry. He cant and wont be able to. For many reasons. But he will destroy the American automotive industry waaaaaay before the US gets a smidgen of Canada's industry which will be a moot point at that juncture. And Im afraid the damage is already done world wide. Who in the phoque will buy GM, Ford or even Tesla EVs when the WORLD is hatin' on the US???!!! When the Chinese EV industry is already engulfing the planet with really affordable EVs...

Sorry to hear that. 58 is young. Too young to pass away.

Its about time?!

Maybe that Walmart article was a decade ago, but the Kentucky bourbon industry is hurting right now. https://www.newsweek.com/kentucky-whiskey-distilleries-bankruptcy-2108644 https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/business/kentuckys-9b-whiskey-industry-in-crisis-as-gen-z-drinkers-shun-bourbon-tariffs-take-toll/ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/9-billion-kentucky-whiskey-industry-trouble-wave-bankruptcies-tiktok-tariffs-blame-1740199 The tariffs are a reason. Some want to blame Gen Z because they dont drink whiskey... I say byullshyte to the Gen Z excuse. I say its the retaliation of the world to shun American products. The CEO of Jack Daniels laughed when Ontario Premier Doug Ford withdrew ALL American alcohol from Ontario liquor stores and Quebec followed suit with the rest of Canada with the exception of Maple Maga Alberta. (But Im willing to bet MOST Albertans boycotted American booze anyway...) Plus the world did the same thing. Who gives a shyte about Jack Daniels and Jim Beam when Scotland, Ireland and Canada make whiskey, bourbon and rye that is equal to are even better than American whiskey. Then the CEO of Jack Daniels realized that taking away the products from the shelves is actually more damaging to sales than mere tariffs. But he dont understand that Canadians will NOT BUY American booze anyhow regardless. Stars and Stripes Maga down south are so stupid they do not realize that the world does not need to US anymore. The Kentucky bourbon industry is just the start. The American automobile industry is up next. THAT one will be the real eye opener. But it will be too late Im afraid. But then again, Donald J. Trump's latest is to try to create hysteria with city take-overs. Either that will make you guys have a civil war or you will not fight but you guys give up your freedoms slowly slowly with yet another attempt at fascism. Oh yeah...also to forget about the Epstein connection... Have a Crown Royal cheers from me.

Its simple capitalism. More precisely to say though...its GREED. And because this is happening in the US in 2025, and to be fair it is reciprocated here in Canada, and this phenomenon has been in effect since the 1980s, its CORPORATE GREED since both of our countries have made ourselves servants and lackeys to these corporations. We abide by everything they tell us through their shytty adverts. We have stopped patronizing mom and pop shops etc... And when Trump was tooting tariffs as his election campaign, the democrats warned of such dangers about corporate greed...about how tariffs work (the citizen pays the tariff and not the country as its a fancy word for tax and how corporations will augment the un-tariffed product to be closer in sales price as the tariffed product... But, Harris and her party were all doom sayers. And she has a weird laugh on top of that. And the talk went on to be about how they are eating the dogs and they are eating the cats... Basic education is terrible in the US. And its by design as a certain political party in the US (and Canada to be fair but the tactic is less successful as Canadians are more community oriented) defunds education every time they go into power. Its also by design that in today's world, the two most northern countries in North America choose to glorify ignorance and vilify knowledge and education. To a lesser extent up here in Canada for whatever reason. Canadians in general continue to value enlightenment. Critical thinking skills be shrinking in the US of A. Liittle catchy slogans is what grabs attention though. They are eating the dogs and eating the cats. We did have something similar in Canada though. Trudeau has nice hair was our cat/dog moment 10 or so years ago. But Trudeau won. And if it wasnt for Doge, Musk, tariffs, Epstein, 51st state rethoric, 36 counts of felonies, we too, be having our Maple Maga movement. But...education is a priority up here in Canada still...

Maple Maga has very quickly quieted down. Oh...there is an extreme right movement here too. The diehards are just as die hard as your morons. But not as abundant. Our morons are slightly more educated than yours so the ones that actually do think, saw and thought about what is what and learned the consequences of being willfully ignorant and stupid through the actions of Trump, through the inactions of decent Americans, and learned very quickly that the extreme right movement is just not good. Like I said though, the maple maga movement does exist. And they are just as a lost cause as your maga movement. Problem is though that your maga movement is holding the world hostage. It be OK if it were only their own demise, but they are bringing the whole planet down. At least in the short term. In the long term, the US will be all alone when all of this is over. Whenever that will be. Even its life long partner in Canada has mostly said to move on from the US. Not a good thing for America.

Well, the Trump regime (and American dairy farmers) wants American dairy to enter the Canadian market so he put a big tariff on Canadian dairy and they also want us to eliminate our quotas to allow the American dairy farmers to flood our market with your dairy. I guess that would help your market with dairy prices as that would mean Canadian dairy to be wiped out completely out of existence. Its simple though, stop over producing milk in your US market and then maybe the prices would just stabilize in your market. Because their is an over production of milk from American dairy farmers that they have to destroy millions of gallons of milk... Having production quotas might make prices slightly more expensive, but no where near to what you guys are experiencing now, it does make for a more predictable outcome in how much a dairy farmer will sell, how much he needs to sell, how many workers he needs etc, and will definitely eliminate over supply and price fluctuations due to over supply. Also, a dairy farmer need not hire people to destroy over produced milk. No profit in that to spend money on throwing out your supply... But hey, yet another crappy American ideology that your friendly neighbor to the north has to contend with and deal with. Canada is married to a peaked in high school drop-out, raggedy assed prostitute who lies, steals, cheats and has no respect for itself and is forced to continue to be abused bonded in holy matrimony because America allow in God they trust and God does not allow divorce. Canada is sooooooo ready for divorce and there are many suitors around, but Canada and all her suitors know how much of a jealous psychopath the US is and are trying to navigate through it all without any major consequences to the children (the trade routes that the US begat and forged with the world) The world is afraid that the US will go bat shyte crazy like Glen Close in fatal attraction and Canada will find its pet rabbbit in a stew... Canadians are keeping their ELBOWS UP and avoiding the US. Quite frankly....PHOQUE the US!!!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/lasalle-police-illegal-border-crossing-us-kayak-rcmp-windsor-1.7602298 https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/lasalle-officer-thwarts-attempted-illegal-entry-into-canada/ A routine property check turned into a surprising discovery early Wednesday morning, according to police. Shortly before 1:00 a.m., a LaSalle police officer checking a commercial property on the 1800 block of Front Road spotted a man at the water’s edge of the Detroit River with two backpacks and a kayak. Investigators say the 51-year-old U.S. citizen was attempting to illegally enter Canada. He was detained and handed over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for further investigation. Police Chief Michael Pearce praised the officer, saying, “This is an outstanding example of how proactive policing can yield positive results. While conducting a simple property check, our officer helped prevent an illegal entry into Canada.” A defector... Reminiscent of former Eastern block folk from the 1980s...

I said the Z06, ZR1 twins will sell out. GM will build as many as the demand needs GM to build. And it will probably be a higher number than any Porsche 911 variant in that category. Firstly, Porsche limits production of those track focused upper trimmed variants. Secondly, like Ferrari, Porsche obliges the owners of would be GT3 RS owners to buy Cayennes and Macans and have a history of past 911 purchases. Only Ferrari gets shat on for that business practice... I dont think Chevrolet and Corvette as a manufacturing team and entity and GM ultimately, are ready to introduce a Corvette SUV as it once was presented a couple of years ago. The Corvette engineering team is too focused on giving us mental performance from the C8 platform. And more to come is rumored. And then there is the 9nth generation. The C8 is already on its 6th year. Its close to the time where Chevrolet is thinking on the next gen Corvette. Whether this next platform will come at year 8 or year 14 of C8 production, the 6th year of any Corvette generation is when Chevrolet starts thinking if another generation of Corvette is going to happen and is talking to General Motors corporate on what budgets are needed to follow. And then the engineering team starts to form to start thinking about what is the the next Corvette going to be like. And no...lifestyle vehicles have NOT replaced anything. The sportscar is still alive and well. For those that have the money to spend on secondary vehicles as toys, these people buy Hummer EVs just as much as Corvette and Porsches. But those that do not have monies to spend, well, they cant afford groceries in this current political climate. But sportscars are still being bought. Lifestyle vehicles...too I guess. I heard that Jeep is also tanking in sales. I dunno if its only the Wagoneer or the regular Jeep, but regular Jeeps have gone insane expensive too. And I do not see Rivians nor Broncos all that much on the roads nor do I see US peoples rave about Rivian and Broncos the way they once did 2 years ago...

I dont think its that. The base Stingray is exactly that Corvette. The Z06, ZR1 and ZR1x are just engineering flexing on what Corvette engineering and racing has to offer at a price point lower than the Corvette's competition. Hence why they went to Nurburgring with their test drivers and engineers driver the cars to show case ANYBODY could drive these cars, relatively safely, relatively aggressive but not so aggressive as to lose control and crash and STILL come out with impressive times at the Nurburgring. Its the every man's sports car persona that they hold on dearly to. I could respect that. And yes, the ZR1 and ZR1x are expensive. But 1969 Corvette ZL1s with aluminium block 427s were higher priced than the highest priced Cadillac of the time. Speed and ultimate engineering comes at a cost. Its not for the average joe. But...American speed is the most democratized in the world. Even at 200 000 plus dollars, The ZR1 twins are still half as expensive as its Porsche and Ferrari competitors. The Corvette has sold all it could. Remember, its a Corvette and not an SUV. Its a car that is 5 going on 6 years old. The Z06, ZR1 twins remain coveted and will sell out. The Stingray now can be bought pennies on the dollar in the used car market like all base Corvettes in the past. That is why it was stupid for all the idiots that bought the Stingray with dealership mark-ups the first 3 years of C8 production... The Corvette is not a dying breed. It still sells more units than its competitors.

Cool car. All C8 variants are cool. I like all variants of the C8 Corvette. But...I am not super enthused by the C8 all that much with the latest variants. Yeah yeah...the Z06 is a mid engine flat plane V8, Ferrari emulating experience. Sure it is a bargain price for what it is. And yeah, the ZR1 and ZR1x are ridiculous in their horsepower and torque numbers and the chassis handles all that power well and puts the performance numbers to prove it while all three variants offer a very luxury GT experience. Great. But Im tired of seeing the GT part of the Corvette always being front and center. The E-Ray to me is where the luxury GT part of the C8 Corvette should be at. The best of both worlds of supercar/hyper car performance and luxury. (Because of the battery weight and the battery performance part). The C8 Stingray is the Stingray. The base Corvette. Where the midlife crisis geezers buy it and pretend that they own the most special breed of cars ever created. And to others that want exotic speed without the exotic price tags of Porsches, Ferraris and the like. Just as it is now. The Z06 should exist as a GT car as it is now, but a more track focused beast that is stripped out and more hardcore version should also exist. The ZR1 should also exist as a GT as it is now. The ZR1x should be called something else as it really is a different car than the ZR1. BUT... I think the C8 Corvette needs ZR1 and Z06 GT luxury delete variations where SIGNIFICANT weight reduction (with or without full on carbon fibre bodies) , ACTIVE aero, and all the GT creature comfort options are all gone from the options list. Sound deadening included. Crappy trunks big enough for golf bags be gone. The Corvette NEEDS to shed off some of the late C3 1970s GT persona and return to being a pure sports car again. The C3 Vette didnt even have a trunk for phoque's sake. Neither the C2. The only reason why the C3 gained a GT persona was because emissions regs and the oil shortage made the Vette's engine choices anemic so it had to sell itself on luxury features. But Im happy as a Corvette fan with the results of the C8 Corvette. And I hear rumours there might be another mad variant of the C8 to come before the platform changes for a 9nth generation.

Mostly by US peoples. Mostly by the most ignorant peoples in the world that go by the moniker "American". And mostly by US peoples that dont really do anything about it. Whether they voted for the regime or didnt vote for the regime and really, by US peoples that didnt vote at all. So everybody on the damned planet has to pay the price for US peoples' ignorance and most importantly, US peoples apathy in politics. On a lighter note, I wonder what Ivanka and Melania think of Katy Perry... (if you know, you know with this comment)