Rue21 didn’t just fail. It vanished.
In a matter of weeks, 543 stores will be stripped, emptied, and locked, as four decades of teen fashion disappear into cardboard boxes and liquidation bins. Prices will crash. Racks will be raided. Nearly 5,000 workers will walk out for the last time, holding their final payche… Continues…
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