Weekly roundup
Business Closure Roundup
A weekly summary of verified U.S. business closures — the notable chains, the sector trends, and the WARN filings behind the numbers. New post every Monday.
Business Closures Week of October 17–23, 2026: 349 Records, a Wendy's Franchisee's Fourth Weekend of Closures and 41 KFC Locator Removals Lead
Store Closure Watch recorded 349 closure and distress records across 46 states and the District of Columbia in the week ending October 24, 2026, down 3 percent from the 360 published for the week before.
Published October 26, 2026 · Top chains: KFC, Wendy's, Crumbl
Business Closures Week of October 10–16, 2026: 360 Records, Hasbro's Pawtucket Closure and a Pickleball Franchisor's Bankruptcy Lead
Store Closure Watch recorded 360 closure and distress records across 44 states in the week ending October 17, 2026, up 16 percent from the 310 published for the week before.
Published October 19, 2026 · Top chains: Dollar General, 7-Eleven, The Picklr
Business Closures Week of October 3–9, 2026: 310 Records, True Food Kitchen Files Chapter 11 as a 128-Year-Old Virginia Furniture Chain Liquidates
Store Closure Watch recorded 310 closure and distress records across 45 states in the week ending October 10, 2026, down 41 percent from the 524 published for the week before.
Published October 12, 2026 · Top chains: True Food Kitchen, Haynes Furniture / The Dump, Grunt Style
Business Closures Week of September 26 – October 2, 2026: 524 Records, Leslie's Files Chapter 11 as Chip City Shuts Every Shop
Store Closure Watch recorded 524 closure and distress records across 43 states and Washington, DC in the week ending October 3, 2026, up 20 percent from the 438 published for the week before.
Published October 5, 2026 · Top chains: Starbucks, Leslie's, Chip City
Business Closures Week of September 19–25, 2026: 438 Events, Starbucks Closes Cafes in 25 States as a Wendy's Franchisee's Bankruptcy Widens
Store Closure Watch recorded 438 closure and distress events across 45 states in the week of September 19–25, 2026, down 5 percent from 463 the week before.
Published September 28, 2026 · Top chains: Starbucks, Wendy's, Morning Belle
Business Closures Week of September 12–18, 2026: 463 Events — 78 Texas Home-Care Licenses Close, Scrubs & Beyond Shuts 25 More, Conifer Files for 1,037 Jobs
Texas license records show 78 home-health, hospice and day-care closures, the kind that rarely draw a reporter; Conifer Health Solutions files for 1,037 jobs in Dallas; Scrubs & Beyond closes 25 more stores and Saks Global shuts the downtown Dallas Neiman Marcus. 463 events, 38 WARN-filed, up 7.4% after a quality gate cut 146 rows from the draft.
Published September 20, 2026 · Top chains: Scrubs & Beyond, Papa Murphy's, Saks OFF 5th
Business Closures Week of September 5–11, 2026: 431 Events — O'Charley's Shuts Its Company-Owned Restaurants, a Domino's Franchisee Closes 13, Scrubs & Beyond Winds Down
O'Charley's closes its company-owned restaurants in one day and 44 land in the file; a Domino's franchisee shuts 13 Ohio stores; Scrubs & Beyond and The Dump begin wind-downs; Trinity Health's Livonia headquarters, Wellstar and Delta Peanut lead the layoff notices. 431 events, 40 WARN-filed, down 33.1%.
Published September 14, 2026 · Top chains: O'Charley's, Domino's Pizza, Scrubs & Beyond
Business Closures Week of August 29 – September 4, 2026: 644 Events — Chains Shrink Location by Location, Simmons Bank's 26-Branch Program, Healthcare Flags Again
Chains shrink location by location — Denny's drops six restaurants from its locator, Buffalo Wild Wings, Red Lobster and Pizza Hut each trim a few — while Simmons Bank discloses a 26-location branch program and healthcare trips the early-warning flag at 20 events against a trailing average of about 9. 644 events, 86 WARN-filed, down 16.9%.
Published September 6, 2026 · Top chains: Simmons Bank, Denny's, Buffalo Wild Wings
Business Closures Week of August 22–28, 2026: 775 Events — Restaurant Chains Shrink Together, Two New Tyson Plant Closures, First Hospitality Alert
Restaurant chains shrink in concert — Red Lobster, Papa Murphy's, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver's — two new Tyson plant closures (Joslin and Eagle Mountain), and a first hospitality alert fires as movie theaters, a bowling center, and F45 studios close in one week. 775 events, down 39.3%.
Published August 30, 2026 · Top chains: Starbucks, Papa Murphy's, T-Mobile
Business Closures Week of August 15–21, 2026: 1,489 Events — Our Largest File Yet, Plus a New Asset Sales Calendar
Our largest weekly file yet, and we explain why: company closure lists now expand to the individual location, adding about a thousand address-level records, including Rite Aid's full 116-store list and all 72 Amazon Fresh and Go stores. Plus a new Asset Sales Calendar for subscribers.
Published August 23, 2026 · Top chains: Rite Aid, Amazon Fresh, 7-Eleven
Business Closures Week of August 8–14, 2026: 417 Events — Meat Plants Lead, Four New Data Streams Go Live
Tyson's 2,500-worker Joslin closure leads a heavy meat-plant week, TD Bank shuts 25 branches in nine states, and four new data streams go live in the weekly file — including ~90 bank branch closings with no press coverage anywhere.
Published August 16, 2026 · Top chains: TD Bank, Save A Lot, Papa Murphy's
Business Closures Week of August 1–7, 2026: 588 Events — Salad and Go Closes Every Location
Salad and Go's overnight full-chain shutdown, Bank of America's 27-branch consolidation, and Daimler's 387-job Portland plant closure headline 588 events, up 36.4% week-over-week.
Published August 9, 2026 · Top chains: Bank of America, Walgreens, Salad and Go
Business Closures Week of July 25–31, 2026: 430 Events — West Marine Contracts Coast to Coast
West Marine's ten-state contraction, a manufacturing surge led by Daimler's 387-job Portland closure, and a 1,341-job International Motors WARN headline 430 events, up 22.5% week-over-week.
Published August 2, 2026 · Top chains: West Marine, Petsense, Wendy's
Business Closures Week of July 18–24, 2026: 396 Events — A Full Mall's Tenant Roster Enters the Data
Lloyd Center's 42-tenant closing roster, Maple Street Biscuits' wind-down, and Petsense's rolling shutdown headline 396 events, up 9.4% week-over-week.
Published July 26, 2026 · Top chains: Maple Street Biscuits, Nike, Petsense
Business Closures Week of July 11–17, 2026: 382 Events — Grocery, Logistics, and Bank-Branch Closures Accelerate
Grocery, logistics, and office/services all run 2x+ their recent pace; Huntington Bank's 24-branch consolidation leads 382 events.
Published July 20, 2026 · Top chains: Huntington Bank, Papa Murphy's, Rite Aid
Business Closures Week of July 4–10, 2026: 452 Events — Healthcare Velocity Alert, Franchisee Bankruptcy Wave
Healthcare facilities spike to 3x baseline and a franchisee bankruptcy wave headlines 452 events.
Published July 13, 2026 · Top chains: Beef-a-Roo, Denny's, Dairy Queen
Business Closures Week of June 27 – July 3, 2026: 437 New Events Led by Macy's, Great Southern Bank, and Nike Studios
Macy's 18-state wave, Great Southern Bank's nine-branch consolidation, and Nike Studios' wind-down headline 437 new events, up 18.4% week-over-week.
Published July 6, 2026 · Top chains: Macy's, Great Southern Bank, Nike Studios
Business Closures Week of June 22–28, 2026: 369 Events Across TX, NY, FL, PA, MA, and TN
Casual dining retreat and the Popeyes–Hooters restructuring wave headline 369 events, up 14.2% week-over-week.
Published July 1, 2026 · Top chains: Popeyes, Hooters, Mardel Christian & Education
Latest briefs
Single-chain write-ups: what closed, where, and what the records show.
50 food and drink plants in 25 states have closed or set a 2026 closing date. Of the 34 whose source gives a reason, 14 are moving the work to other plants, the most common reason.
Crumbl, the pink-box cookie chain, is shrinking. Restaurant Business reported on October 19 that Crumbl has closed 65 locations since April 30 and opened 15, for 50 net closures.
Between Sept. 26 and Oct. 24, our weekly checks found 275 stores that 44 chains removed from their own online store locators, across 42 states.
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