The news just keeps getting brighter!Now Regis Corp., the parent of Supercuts and other salon chains, says it plans to close about 160 stores, most of them in malls. Granted, the company operates 8,500 units around the world, but this still can't bode well for the industry.We're sure that Supercuts and similar concepts don't take up a whole lot of space in a shopping center, but all of these small-store closures have to be adding up for landlords.Are there ways a shopping-center owner can combat a situation when stores like this go dark, or are vacancy rates just bound to rise? Or are we just making too big a deal of this?
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