{"id":143694,"date":"2020-09-02T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T12:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/?p=143694"},"modified":"2020-09-02T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T12:27:35","slug":"gap-closes-225-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/en\/gap-closes-225-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Gap closes 225 stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It is undeniable that the crisis caused by the current pandemic is having very serious consequences. That is why <a href=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/discover-yes-message-at-the-gap-chicago-store\/?lang=en\">Gap<\/a> has decided to close two hundred stores after a drop in sales.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-143689 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-gap-cierra-225-tiendas-1.jpg\" alt=\"gap\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-gap-cierra-225-tiendas-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-gap-cierra-225-tiendas-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-gap-cierra-225-tiendas-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-gap-cierra-225-tiendas-1-973x487.jpg 973w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/highxtar-gap-cierra-225-tiendas-1-508x254.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other fast fashion giants also made the same decision &#8211; <strong>H&amp;M, COS and Zara<\/strong> &#8211; and now <strong>Gap<\/strong> joins the list. After an <strong>18% drop<\/strong> in the second quarter of 2020, they have made official their intention to close <strong>225 stores<\/strong>, with the <strong>possibility of increasing the number during 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, this loss does not affect <strong>online sales<\/strong>, as it has experienced a <strong>growth of 95%<\/strong> only in the last quarter, thanks to the sale of <strong>masks<\/strong> that would have meant about <strong>110 million euros<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Will <a href=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/the-e-commerce-boom-is-destroying-the-planet\/?lang=en\"><strong>e-commerce be the end of conventional physical stores<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an 18% drop in the second quarter of 2020, Gap has made official its intention to close 225 stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":143692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[1996,1682],"class_list":["post-143694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-en","tag-covid-19","tag-natalia-canoa-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin  - 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