• Fashion retailer Century 21 files for bankruptcy, to shut all stores

    Fashion retailer Century 21 files for bankruptcy, to shut all stores

    Off-price clothing retailer Century 21 — a mecca for generations of fashion-minded bargain hunters — filed for bankruptcy on Thursday and said it will shutter all of its stores for good, blaming insurance companies that failed to pay up during the pandemic. Known for deeply discounted designer goods, the department store has been a retail …