2017’s most popular blog posts

As is my tradition, here’s my annual recap of my 2017 posts that got the most traffic. Once again my April Fool’s Day one easily grabs the top position .

1. Every single retail store in the US to close permanently by month’s end
2. Stop blaming Amazon for department store woes
3. Retail’s single biggest disruptor. Spoiler alert: It’s not e-commerce
4. Retail’s great deleveraging
5. Retail’s next punch in the face
6. Department stores aren’t going away, but 3 big things still need to happen
7. Going private: Here comes Amazon’s next wave of dismantling and disruption
8. The future of retail will not be evenly distributed
9. The store closing panacea
10. The retail apocalypse and the urgent quest for the remarkable

For my most popular articles on Forbes during 2017 go here.

Originally published at stevenpdennis.com on January 2, 2018.