Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Obama Care will reduce doctor’s Medicaid reimbursements by 52.4%, beginning 01 January 2015!
Too Big to Jail United Bank announced it will shutdown offices in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
California: In Bakersfield, Canada based oil industry company Ensign Energy Services revealed it laid off 700 people back on 15 December 2014! In Walnut Creek, baseball themed McCovey’s restaurant shutting down. The owners say they are trying to relocate near a real major league baseball stadium, if they can afford the rent. Boeing issued a WARN saying 23 people in Long Beach will be laid off in March. Arrogant and bankrupt busted GT Advanced Technologies is now demanding a bankruptcy judge allow millions of dollars in bonuses to be paid to the failed executives of the failed company! More than 800 jobs were lost when Apple canceled its contract with GT Advanced! Yogurtland shutdown their Roseville frozen yogurt store, it has something to do with the location.
Florida: In Plantation, the Fashion Mall chapter 7 bankrupt busted and now up for sale. The mall has been vacant since 2007!
Illinois: In Chicago, Castle (Excalibur) nightclub shutdown. After 26 years Soapy’s laundromat being shutdown by greedy property developers.
Hawaii: The Children’s Place clothing store in the GGP owned Ala Moana Center announced it will shutdown in February. Store administrators say they couldn’t afford to renew the lease. GGP is spending at least $600-million USD remodeling the Sears store into smaller spaces. I’ve worked for GGP and know how outrageous their rents are. They don’t just charge a simple ‘rent’, they can charge for utilities and they also ask for a percentage of sales.
Maryland: In Annapolis, after 44 years Laurance Clothing shutdown.
Michigan: The last two libraries of the Wayne County Library system threatened with shutdown. The communities of Ecorse and Taylor say they will follow the other former library system members and go independent, in order to save money.
Minnesota: In Saint Paul, Work Out World was evicted by its landlord, for failure to pay rent. After more than 50 years the White Bear Bowl bowling alley shutdown, due to crashing revenues ever since 2008, and supposedly the property owner sold the land to a nursing home company. American Bank bankrupt busted and sold off to Deerwood Bank. Barnes & Nobel shutdown its 20 years old Saint Paul Highland Park book store, not because the store wasn’t making money. The store was shutdown by the greedy landlord. Barnes & Noble administrators are looking for a new home: “We are diligently working on a new store offering…There’s nothing immediate. In fact, I can honestly tell you, we have not selected any locations for a new store offering, but we’ll probably look to that by the middle of 2015”-David Deason
Missouri: Texas based Romano’s Macaroni Grill forced to shutdown all their Saint Louis restaurants, and one in Columbia, due to greedy property owner! Employees had no warning and were all notified on the day of the shutdowns by phone calls! It turns out the property owner made a secret deal with evil Christian Chick fil-A back in September! In Kansas City, the County Club Plaza lost three stores: Ann Taylor, Ann Taylor Loft and Pottery Barn Kids. The Oak Park Mall reports the Ann Taylor store is shutting down.
Montana: In Billings, the Mongolian Grill shutdown, local news reports say nobody at the restaurant would talk to them.
North Carolina: Vegetable dehydrator McCall Farms of Wilson issued a WARN saying it will shutdown in February, affecting as many as 285 permanent and seasonal jobs by the end of March! The Carolina Mattress Guild now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and liquidating. Griggs Properties now chapter 7 bankrupt busted.
Ohio: Perrysburg Township began laying off police, blaming cash strapped taxpayers for rejecting a $3-million police levy in November. In Westerville, service provider for government-sponsored benefits programs such as the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Maximus issued a WARN saying 70 people will become jobless due to the failure to win an Obama Care contract.
Oregon: Ochoco Lumber shutdown their 2nd shift at their Malheur Lumber plant, just seven months after starting up the 2nd shift. About 90 jobs affected. Administrators admit they overestimated sales. Ochoco Lumber had also sold off $18.5-million of their land to pay for upgrades to their Malheur Lumber factory.
Tennessee: In Nashville, after 18 years Fiddle & Steel Guitar Bar shutdown. The property was sold off to a hotel developer.
Texas: In San Antonio, it was announced that a Sprouts grocery store would shutdown in March. In Rockwell, after only two years in their new location KE Cellars Winery shutdown: “We tried to make it work, but with so many sources of wine all over, road construction, a slow economy and everything Murphy could throw at us, it is just time for us to say we tried.”-owners
Vermont: After 42 years the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant shutdown.
Virginia: Minnesota based Famous Daves BBQ announced it’s getting the hell outta Richmond! All three stores already shutdown and the properties are up for sale! Administrators say their restaurants never made enough money in Richmond. In Galax, after 91 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Vaughan Furniture shutdown due to crashing sales.
Washington: Biotech company Dendreon chapter 11 bankrupt busted and about to be auctioned off in February.
Wisconsin: The U.S. Postal Service confirmed it will shutdown four processing centers in the first half of 2015, more than a hundred jobs lost!
30-31-december-2014: “The rent is crazy high here!”
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.