STORE CLOSURES: 9 retailers closing stores nationwide this year

Faith-based book and gift store Family Christian (pictured) is closing its 240 stores nationwide due to “declining sales,” according to a release from the company.(Phillip Pessar/ Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Faith-based book and gift store Family Christian (pictured) is closing its 240 stores nationwide due to “declining sales,” according to a release from the company.(Phillip Pessar/ Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

It’s been a tumultuous start of 2017 for several retailers, which have announced the closures of hundreds of stores across the nation. Several of these stores will close locations in Ohio, and across the Midwest.

These nine retailers are downsizing their brick-and-mortar locations in the coming months: