The Amazon Effect: Retail Bankruptcies Surge 110% In First Half Of The Year

``And if recent trends are an indication, the latter will only get worse as Fitch expects Claire's, Sears Holdings and Nine West all to default by the end of the year, pushing the default rate to 9%. "The timing on Sears and Claire's is more uncertain, and our retail forecast would end the year at 5% absent these filings," Rosenthal wrote.''