{"id":8765,"date":"2021-03-04T13:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2021-03-04T13:14:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:14:25","slug":"disney-closes-60-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/03\/04\/disney-closes-60-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney closes 60 stores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Disney Store, once a mall mainstay, is drastically reducing the number of locations it has in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Disney said it\u2019s closing at least 60 stores in North America, amounting to about 35 percent of its locations in the region, CNN reports<\/a>. Moving forward, Disney is placing a larger emphasis on its e-commerce business rather than its brick-and-mortar footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile consumer behavior has shifted toward online shopping, the global pandemic has changed what consumers expect from a retailer,\u201d said Stephanie Young, president of Disney\u2019s consumer products, games and publishing unit, in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID-19 has spurred more people to move their shopping habits online, according to CNN. Research firm eMarketer recently said e-commerce sales across the world grew nearly 28 percent in 2020, surpassing $4 trillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fans can still buy Mickey merchandise at theme park stores, third-party retailers, and Disney shop-in-shops. In 2019, Target opened mini-Disney stores in 25 of its locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disney, which didn\u2019t release a list of stores that will close, has about 300 locations worldwide. It had nearly 800 locations globally at its peak in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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