To be fair here, a lot of the names on the list are old-line retailers that still imagine they have a middle-class customer base (Macy's,) have been in trouble for a long, long time (Payless,Sears, GAP,) or have simply expanded far too quickly ("Dollar" stores.)

All it would have taken would have been an economy with a cold to push them off the edge. The current situation we have has booted them off instead.