The Retail Apocalypse is projected to expand in 2018

In this Biz Women journal article, commercial real estate brokers Cushman & Wakefield expect up to 12,000 more retail stores to close in 2018.  That's quite a bit more than the 9,000 stores that closed in 2017, by their count.  No one has made a really good map of all of these store closings yet, but most are in rural areas or small towns and cities as far as I've been able to tell.  Yikes.