Payless ShoeSource approved on Friday, in fact that will block 2100 stores in the USA and Puerto Rico and will begin implementation on Sunday. The company still closes its own operations of electric Commerce. 

This year, the closure was the largest in one network and almost doubled the number of retail stores, which are required to shut down in 2019.

"We expect, in fact, that all stores will remain open, at least until the end of March, and the bulk remains open until may," - said in a statement in the company USA TODAY. "This process does not affect the franchising operations of the company or its Latin American stores, which remain open for business in a simple mode.”

Payless.com no longer accepts online orders, but his shop locator is still working early on Saturday.

Topeka, a Kansas-based discount Shoe retailer, previously filed for ruin protection in 2017 and shut down 673 stores.

In a September news release, Payless said it was "the Premier footwear retailer in The Western hemisphere" with more than 3,500 stores in 40 countries and almost 18,000 employees.

For a number of days before such as Payless approved, in fact that the stores will be closed, Coresight Research on Wednesday released a monitoring of the closure of stores in 2019, which told, in fact, that "there is no light at the end of the tunnel."

According to the report of the research firm global market research for the 1st 6 months of the year, before the announcement of non-cash payment was announced the closure of 2,187 stores. This is 23 percent more than in the same stage last year.

These are 749 Gymboree stores, 251 Shopko stores and 94 Charlotte Russe stores. 

For 2018, Coresight Research tracked 5,524 closures, which included all Toys R Us stores and hundreds of mattress stores, Kmart and Sears stores, and the rest of the Brookstone Mall stores. 

A record year for closing was 2017, with 8,139 covered stores, Coresight said. This included 2017 Payless closures, all hhgregg electronics and a network of home appliances and hundreds of Sears and Kmart stores.