Retail faces multiple crises: brick-and-mortar stores are closing (GAME's shutdown marks video game retail's decline), nitrous oxide sold in retail settings is fueling a death epidemic prompting legislative bans, and several retail industry figures have died recently including the 93-year-old founder of Japan's convenience store empire.
·Nitrous oxide sold in retail outlets is driving a surge in overdose deaths, sparking calls for federal and state bans on sales
·GAME's closure signals the accelerating end of physical video game retail despite analyst claims of exaggeration
·Toshifumi Suzuki, architect of Japan's convenience store boom, has died at 93
·A mango fashion tycoon's death under investigation with his son now named as a suspect in the probe
drawn from WSMV, Yahoo Finance, investigatetv.com, TheSixthAxis · updated 2d ago