Failing retail chain makes an unexpected comeback
Bankruptcy isn't in the cards this time and customers will likely be thrilled.

With financial upheaval seemingly everywhere you look, keeping a brick-and-mortar business open these days seems like less of a normal expectation and more of a miracle.
This is doubly so for smaller businesses and those who deal in specialty retail. But some well-known names have also had to make the dreaded announcement in the last year. Just a few of those casualties: Joann Fabrics, which has been around for 81 years, Party City, which spent four decades in business, Tupperware, which seems so ubiquitous its hard to imagine it shuttering, and Express, which was once upon a time the trendiest store in any shopping mall.