I had membership at the former Tilton Fitness Center on Route 9 in Manahawkin and I miss this location to work out in Southern Ocean County. For years this was a thriving fitness center and rehabilitation location in Stafford Township.
Sadly, the list of businesses that have gone under because of the coronavirus pandemic keeps growing. The latest casualty is the Gold’s Gym on Route 9 in Howell.
According to the Asbury Park Press, the gym, which first opened in 1989, will shut its doors forever on March 25. Gold’s Gym parent company filed for bankruptcy protection last May and announced the closure of 30 locations, but those were company owned stores, which make up just a small fraction of the 700 Gold’s Gym locations; the bulk are owned by franchisees.
Gyms were initially shut down in March of last year and were allowed to open, subject to a 25% capacity limit, in September, and that is apparently not enough to sustain many of them. The owner of the Howell location, Mark Steinfeld, told the Asbury Park Press that memberships never recovered from the shutdown and are now at less than fifty percent of what they were pre-pandemic and that it would take two years to recover. Steinfeld said some people still
Retail store closings 2020: The list of chains that closed stores in N.J. and nationwide this year
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 21, 2020
AMC Theatres has permanently closed its location in Hamilton. It shuttered in November due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Med
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It has been a rough year for the brick-and-mortar retail industry.
As the coronavirus pandemic swept across the nation in 2020, many major retailers announced permanent store closings or filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to declining sales and temporary store closures.
While the brick-and-mortar industry has struggled, many people have been turning to online shopping during the pandemic, and retailers are noticing. Companies that have filed for bankruptcy or shuttered stores have pulled out all the stops to take advantage of the surge.