They called it the "Great Consolidation," a wave of bank branch closures during the pandemic that seemed to herald a new age of digital banking that would turn your favorite local vault into a relic from a bygone era.

Well, we just got an overdraft notice on that gloomy outlook: The pandemic is over-CDC is about to cancel its five-day isolation guideline if you catch COVID-and bank branches are popping up all over the place, especially in the Sun Belt.

Two of the nation's largest banks this month announced massive expansions of their already huge U.S. branch footprints.

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