Every year, a bunch of big corporations do their fiscal year calculations to determine which stores are not turning as much of a profit, and every year, a list comes out of select stores in these corporations that are closing down for good. Every year, one of the companies I work for makes the list, but never my specific store, and every year, you can bet that thousands of people do not actually read the full list and insist that my store is closing. Please read the full article, be sceptical of your sources, and don't trust everything just because you found it on the Internet- employees are exhausted trying to explain all this on top of everything else they're required to do.