Record Number Of Retail Stores Have Not Made It To Black Friday Here In 2017

"One of the more interesting byproducts of the Housing Bubble that took place during the first decade of this century was the inordinate number of businesses that sprung up in and around new communities.  And while using the tenor of continual growth as the catalyst to keep pushing up their stock prices between 2002 and 2008, many of these corporations would end up shuttering store locations when the foreclosure monster hit, and the economy plunged into the Great Recession."