Retail bankruptcies (2024–2026)

Retail's 2024–2025 bankruptcy wave erased household names. Party City, JOANN, Big Lots and Rite Aid liquidated or collapsed into closures; Express, The Container Store and Conn's restructured or wound down. The pressures were familiar — debt loads from prior buyouts, online competition, and thin margins that left no room when traffic softened. These are the chains that filed, with links to what the public record shows on each.

9 companies on the list · updated continuously

CompanyStateFiledWhat happened

Rite Aid CorporationPA2025-05-05Chapter 11 (second filing) — approximately 1,240 store closures JOANN Inc.OH2025-01-15Chapter 11 (second filing) — full liquidation of ~800 stores by May 2025 The Container Store Group, Inc.TX2024-12-22completed a financial restructuring; emerged as a private company Party City Holdco Inc.NJ2024-12-21full liquidation of ~700 U.S. stores Big Lots, Inc.OH2024-09-09mass store closures across the chain Conn's, Inc.TX2024-07-23furniture and electronics retailer; wound down operations Express, Inc.OH2024-04-22apparel retailer; assets acquired by a WHP Global-led consortium Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.NJ2023-04-23filed April 2023 after a failed turnaround; the company wound down and liquidated its stores David's Bridal LLCPA2023-04-17filed April 2023 after cutting roughly 82% of staff; the bridal chain's second bankruptcy in five years

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Drawn from public filings and reporting. Inclusion reflects a documented bankruptcy filing and is not a statement about any company's current operations. Not financial advice.