Data & Insights

Fairway, Papyrus Bankruptcies Give Retailers the January Chills

Loan default rate for retail sector rose to 7% from 4.7% year-over-year in December

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Papyrus is one of a handful of retailers that have either filed for bankruptcy or restructured in January.Getty Images
By Richard Collings

January 24, 2020

This week, Fairway Market and Papyrus joined Save-A-Lot parent Moran Foods as retailers that have either filed for bankruptcy or defaulted in January, making for an inauspicious start to 2020.

Richard Collings

Richard Collings is a retail reporter at Adweek.

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