I'm really shocked. I truly believed this store closed down. Mandela effect?

Take this with a grain of salt, but I believe Forever 21 recently closed this Hayward's location for good.

Forever 21 in Altoona's Outlets of Des Moines will be closing and that's just plain wrong. It was the best store in the mall hands down, no questions about it. My December is ruined since it will be closing later that month.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That is my favorite store, it can't be closing! How am I supposed to get clothes now?! I refuse to shop online. I think imma be sick T_T. waaaahhhhhhh

Here is the summary: Bankruptcy to be declared by Forever 21 Almost 200 stores will be closed There is no return cnn.com/2019/09/29/business/forever-21-bankruptcy/index.html

Could Forever 21 close this Gurnee store?

Whew, this store looked like a mess before they closed. You could have barely walked with how many clothes and hangers on the floors served like obstacles. I know this would have happened so when they closed this month in July, I wasn't... — read more 

So I worked in this store for a while and I know most of the people who tried shopping here didn't like it. Hey, no skin off my back though since I didn't like working here either. No hard feelings however, especially since I see they have closed... — read more 

I just read on another forum board that Forever 21 is laying off employees in several different locations and that they left them without any severance packages. That's horrible. My daughter works in Forever 21, should I worry she will be laid off... — read more 

I have seen reports that Forever 21 is dangerously close to filling for bankruptcy and they are trying to prevent it by seeking advisors and whatnot. I hope they do not go into bankruptcy but how can they prevent that? CAN they prevent something like... — read more 

This store is closing very soon. This store was a test store in this market. This area is not generating enough profit.

Not sure - but I do see less traffic in teh stores. Forever 21 store next to me used to be packed but not any more - maybe customers are migrating somewhere else and the stores will have to be updated in order to stay open and not close. I do not... — read more 

A pity if you ask me. This store was sweet. All my favorite stores keep getting closed.

The Forever 21 in Charleston that always seemed rather messy has closed. Probably last year I think. I didn't mind the messiness myself, the clothes were all that mattered to me.

Did the Forever 21 on 200 E Pratt St in Baltimore close before or during the pandemic? All I remember from that store is that it was in sooo messy. Maybe those were simply the signs that the store would close?

The Loop Forever 21 is closed forever now but I have to ask when did that come to be? Nobody really knows when it closed.

At least this store is. I spent a lot of time here with my friends when I was in high school. It feels a bit weird knowing that it's closed now.

It's very sad to see Forever 21 stores close. You sorta expect them to be open forever, no pun intended.

The other Forever 21 stores have been so much better than this one and yet they closed. What makes this one so special? Don't get me wrong though, I don't want it to close. I'm just asking questions.

Too bad. The prices were great.

It was such a good store and it was busy most of the time as well. It's truly unfortunate that it closed but it is what it is in the end. Nothing lasts forever, not even Forever 21.

The fact that that store is going out of business is really a shame, isn't it? I don't want to make a lame joke about how the company didn't last forever after all but at one point it really did seem like that. Like it would be here forever, I mean. — read more 

The strangest thing. Every time I was in this Forever 21 store (read: every time I was forced here by my friends) I always had a bad time. Like, I just didn't vibe with this place. When my friends told me over brunch that the store closed, suddenly I... — read more 

This lovely store closed! It's dead as the Dodo! Shame, shame.

I thought all Forever 21 stores closed lol this was certainly a surprise

And no wonder, either. If you know, you know.

The store went out of business, which was not a very big surprise.

Didn't know this store is still functional.

It wasn't a good store anyways. There are better Forever 21 stores out there and they're all still thankfully open. Only the bad stores close, like this one.

Forever 21 closed the Queens Center mall in Queens NY last month. I think another clothing retailer closed there too. Malls just aren't what they used to be anymore. Waste of money to have a store in one.

Why did I think that the Annapolis store has closed? I guess my mind just went "closed" because so many mall stores end up closing these days.

Forever 21 in Norfolk closed up shop, it's a goner.

A lot of Forever 21 are closing. I'm surprised this one in WA didn't.

I was under the impression that the store closed. It didn't - good!

Forever 21 is still open here. It's kind of impressive.

Perhaps this specific Salinas store should serve now as a sort of cautionary tale, a reminder maybe that even the mightiest might stumble and eventually fall once they lose the sight of what was important to their customers.

The downfall of Forever 21 hurts on a deep, personal level. The Saratoga Springs NY Forever 21 was a special place for me and my friends. It was always packed to the brim with people wearing trendy clothes that didn't break the bank and the... — read more 

We can't have anything good in our lives lately. Gosh, it was just a clothing store. Why close Forever 21 and not all the other garbage businesses that litter Silverdale instead? This su-ks so bad especially since it was such an avoidable closing... — read more