Other national book chains, like Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, could move into stores vacated by Borders.
Dot.com firms are instead moving into downtown stores.
In its latest retail experiment, Walmart has been shedding the original store goods and moving into standalone grocery stores called Walmart Neighborhood Market.
It has been criticised for being slow in moving into the convenience store sector and setting up an online operation.
Mr Philips was under pressure for Morrisons' poor trading performance, in particular for delays in moving into the convenience store sector and setting up an online operation.
Morrisons has been criticised for being slow in moving into the convenience store sector, as well as in setting up an online operation.
It is also moving into former BHS stores in Reading and Llandudno.
Grant Sanborn, executive vice president of operations of Ames Department Stores, which is based in Connecticut, said no retailers had inquired about moving into the Ames stores in Tupper Lake or Saranac Lake, although some developers had "expressed interest".
Even though Warby Parker is now moving into physical retail stores, running TV ads, and raising large rounds of funding from American Express and J. Crew chief executive Millard S. Drexler, it hasn't always been that easy for them, as it turns out.
Earlier this year, SimilarWeb expanded to measure mobile web data for the U.S. and U.K., and then moved into app store analytics this September, providing data about top keywords, how users are navigating the app store, how people find apps and more.
