{"id":54349,"date":"2020-07-23T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54349"},"modified":"2020-07-23T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:30:39","slug":"more-than-half-of-business-closures-are-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54349","title":{"rendered":"More Than Half of Business Closures are Permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/mishtalk\/economics\/more-than-half-of-business-closures-are-permanent\">More Than Half of Business Closures are Permanent<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imageproxy.themaven.net\/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.saymedia-content.com%2F.image%2FMTc0MTUyNDk3NjYzODQ1Njkx%2Fyelp-july--2020---share-of-permanent-closures.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Yelp study finds that 55% of business closures are closed for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yelp reports I<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelpeconomicaverage.com\/yea-q2-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ncreased Consumer Interest in May<\/a>&nbsp;correlates with more Covid outbreaks and closures in June and July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Consumer Interest vs Outbreaks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imageproxy.themaven.net\/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.saymedia-content.com%2F.image%2FMTc0MTUyMzMxMjMzODYyOTQx%2Fyelp-july--2020-a---consumer-interest-increased.png\" alt=\"Yelp July  2020 A - consumer interest increased\" title=\"Yelp July  2020 A - consumer interest increased\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Business Closures Fluctuate Across the Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There were 140,000 total businesses closures on Yelp from March 1 to June 15. This increased to more than 147,000 total business closures on June 29 and then dropped again to just more than 132,500 total business closures as of July 10.&nbsp;<\/li><li>In April, there were more than 175,000 business closures indicating that only 24% of businesses that were closed in April have reopened.<\/li><li>Even as total closures fall,<em>&nbsp;permanent closures increase<\/em>&nbsp;with 72,842 businesses permanently closed, out of the 132,580 total closed businesses, an increase of 15,742 permanent closures since June 15.&nbsp;<\/li><li>This also means that the&nbsp;<em>percentage of permanent to temporary business closures is rising, with permanent closures now accounting for 55% of all closed businesses since March 1<\/em>, an increase of 14% from June when we reported 41% of closures as permanent.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Overall, permanent closures have steadily increased since the peak of the pandemic with minor spikes in March, followed by May and June.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Total Businesses Closures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imageproxy.themaven.net\/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.saymedia-content.com%2F.image%2FMTc0MTUyNTMyMDIzNTg0MDU5%2Fyelp-july--2020---where-are-most-businessses-closed.png\" alt=\"Yelp July  2020 - Where are most Businessses Closed\" title=\"Yelp July  2020 - Where are most Businessses Closed\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">States with the largest populations have the most closures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Total Business Closures Per 1,000<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imageproxy.themaven.net\/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.saymedia-content.com%2F.image%2FMTc0MTUyNjExNzQ4OTE0NDYx%2Fyelp-july--2020---where-are-most-businessses-closed-per-1000.png\" alt=\"Yelp July  2020 - Where are most Businessses Closed per 1,000\" title=\"Yelp July  2020 - Where are most Businessses Closed per 1,000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On a metro level, Las Vegas, NV, is suffering from the highest rate of permanently closed businesses with 861 businesses permanently closed, as the city reacts to a decrease in tourism. Meanwhile, Los Angeles, CA, has the most closures with 11,342 total temporary and permanent business closures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Restaurants Struggle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Than Half of Business Closures are Permanent A Yelp study finds that 55% of business closures are closed for good. Yelp reports Increased Consumer Interest in May&nbsp;correlates with more Covid outbreaks and closures in June and July. Consumer Interest vs Outbreaks Business Closures Fluctuate Across the Nation There were 140,000 total businesses closures on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23770,13390,855],"class_list":["post-54349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-business-closures","tag-mishtalk","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54350,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54349\/revisions\/54350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}