About That Emailed List of Store Closings

If you haven't seen it yet, you probably will soon enough. I'm referring to a forwarded email that purports to list upcoming store closures by three dozen or so major U.S. retailers and warns holders of gift cards from these companies to redeem them before they're worthless.

Which is doubtless good advice in these troubled economic times, but the fact of the matter is that much of the content of this email is either false or outdated. Read more...