expansion: May 2009 Archives

From Barbara Farfan at the About.com retail industry blog (a good read and a good tweet, by the way) comes this heartening list of chains opening stores in 2009. Timely Demise suspects the openings are global, not national--there's virtually no way McDonald's is opening a thousand new stores in the U.S. this year--but it's nice to be reminded that for many people, the commerce engine chugs along. (Barbara also maintains a list of store closings that includes many of the items covered here in recent months.)