Rival chains, including H&T, have also closed outlets.
The department store's closest outlets are in Stamford and Greenwich in Connecticut and in Manhattan.
However, politicians quickly managed to buy or close outlets and, according to former journalists, encourage self-censorship.
The discounters are also rapidly opening new stores while traditional supermarkets have closed outlets amid the growing popularity of internet shopping.
A number of struggling retailers and restaurateurs, including Mothercare, Carpetright, Byron and Prezzo, have resorted to company voluntary arrangements (CVAs) to close outlets and lay off staff.
Among gossip writers, entertainment lawyers are regarded as "ambulance chasers", scanning gossip sites for potential business and then splitting their fees among celebrities and agents in concerted attempts to close outlets down.
Yet a strategy of closing outlets opened during a period of overexpansion, introducing healthier options and improving customer service got McDonald's out of a very similar crisis a few years back.
[C3.] Cablevision Moves to Save Cash Trying to avoid running out of cash, Cablevision outlined a plan that included cutting jobs, reducing spending, selling movie theaters and closing outlets in the Wiz chain of electronics stores.
In Nassau County, where three cases were reported, Taco Bell responded to a request by health officials and temporarily closed outlets in the Roosevelt Field shopping mall, and in Hicksville, Hempstead and East Meadow, where victims had eaten.
Tesco is preparing to shed up to 9,000 jobs in a turnaround plan that would remove a layer of management in larger supermarkets in addition to slimming its head office and closing outlets.
