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Retail News => Stores Shutting Down This Year....2024 => Topic started by: retailisking on September 09, 2019, 11:03:43 AM

Title: Fred's files Chapter 11, closing all remaining stores
Post by: retailisking on September 09, 2019, 11:03:43 AM
Alden Global kills Payless, and now Fred's...
https://www.retaildive.com/news/freds-files-for-bankruptcy-plans-to-liquidate/562500
Title: Re: Fred's files Chapter 11, closing all remaining stores
Post by: TheFugitive on September 09, 2019, 11:20:06 AM
Interesting.  Chapter 11 is a reorganization.  Chapter 7 is a liquidation.
Here they are filing Chapter 11 yet they are still closing all of their stores.
It's a bit unusual.
Title: Re: Fred's files Chapter 11, closing all remaining stores
Post by: danfifepsu on September 10, 2019, 10:56:44 PM
Quote from: TheFugitive on September 09, 2019, 11:20:06 AM
Interesting.  Chapter 11 is a reorganization.  Chapter 7 is a liquidation.
Here they are filing Chapter 11 yet they are still closing all of their stores.
It's a bit unusual.

Most companies that file for Chapter 11 eventually end up converting to Chapter 7, like Toys r us.
Title: Re: Fred's files Chapter 11, closing all remaining stores
Post by: deerwrecker2017 on September 10, 2019, 11:58:38 PM
Quote from: danfifepsu on September 10, 2019, 10:56:44 PM
Quote from: TheFugitive on September 09, 2019, 11:20:06 AM
Interesting.  Chapter 11 is a reorganization.  Chapter 7 is a liquidation.
Here they are filing Chapter 11 yet they are still closing all of their stores.
It's a bit unusual.

Most companies that file for Chapter 11 eventually end up converting to Chapter 7, like Toys r us.

That happened with Ames regarding it's second bankruptcy as it filed for Chapter 11 only to end up a year after the bankruptcy filing to convert it to Chapter 7 and shut it all down.
Title: Re: Fred's files Chapter 11, closing all remaining stores
Post by: TheFugitive on September 11, 2019, 09:19:56 AM
The Chapter 7 was the direct result of the second Chapter 11 being unsuccessful.
Title: Re: Fred's files Chapter 11, closing all remaining stores
Post by: deerwrecker2017 on September 11, 2019, 11:18:21 AM
Quote from: TheFugitive on September 11, 2019, 09:19:56 AM
The Chapter 7 was the direct result of the second Chapter 11 being unsuccessful.

That is true with all Chapter 11 Bankruptcies that do get converted to Chapter 7 when the companies that file realize that the Chapter 11 will fail and they end up with no choice but to Liquidate.