{"id":66102,"date":"2026-03-29T10:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=66102"},"modified":"2026-03-29T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:06:31","slug":"zumiez-closing-25-more-stores-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=66102","title":{"rendered":"Zumiez Closing 25 More Stores in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38374\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zumiez-notagline-tm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"20\">Core mall retailer <strong>Zumiez<\/strong> (aka &#8220;trendy clothing chain&#8221;) is responding to the failing health of malls by closing 25 stores in 2026, according to a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/nationworld\/popular-youth-clothing-and-apparel-chain-to-close-more-stores-in-2026\/\"><strong>KTLA5<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zumiez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zumiez<\/a> shuttered 17 stores, and CEO <strong>Richard Brooks<\/strong> told investors the company plans to close another 25 locations in 2026, 20 of them in the United States. . . He said the closures aren\u2019t a reflection of slowing demand, but rather a strategic shift away from underperforming shopping malls, many of which have struggled to recover foot traffic lost during the pandemic and amid the continued growth of online shopping.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With around 700 more stores to go Zumiez has room to contract for a while before anything gets too worrisome. After all, <strong>Tom Campion<\/strong> and <strong>Gary Haakenson<\/strong> started with only one store.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/nationworld\/popular-youth-clothing-and-apparel-chain-to-close-more-stores-in-2026\/\">KTLA5<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core mall retailer Zumiez (aka &#8220;trendy clothing chain&#8221;) is responding to the failing health of malls by closing 25 stores in 2026, according to a story on KTLA5. Last year, Zumiez shuttered 17 stores, and CEO Richard Brooks told investors the company plans to close another 25 locations in 2026, 20 of them in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66102"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66109,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66102\/revisions\/66109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}