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 The Limited store in San Jose. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) 
  
 The Limited has posted a message on its website saying it is closing all of its 250 stores nationwide, a move that would make the women’s apparel chain the latest big-name retailer to be wounded by shoppers’ growing preference for online shopping and “fast fashion.” 
  
 The posting said that the chain’s website would continue to be open for business. 
  
 There had been a steady drumbeat of evidence that trouble was brewing at The Limited. During the December shopping rush, the store’s 80 percent off deals and its sudden decision to disallow returns seemed more characteristic of a fire sale than a holiday bonanza. 
  
 And reports have cropped up across the country of individual store closures in recent weeks: Shoppers in the Washington region were notified by e-mail that the Pentagon City store was closing. News outlets in places such as Indianapolis, Albany, N.Y., and central Illinois reported that their local Limited stores were shuttering. 
  
 Sun Capital Partners, the company that owns The Limited, declined to comment. 
  
 A spokesman told the Associated Press that the company will shut its stores by Sunday and that the closures would result in about 4,000 job cuts. 
  
 The Limited was once a cornerstone of one of retailing’s most formidable empires. Founded in 1963 by Leslie H. “Les” Wexner, the store was a 2,000-square-foot box named for its limited assortment of women’s apparel. The business mushroomed quickly, perhaps an early harbinger of an era in which specialty stores became a dominant presence in regional shopping malls and began to steal thunder from department stores. As The Limited mushroomed, so did Wexner’s ideas: He opened Express, a trendier women’s clothing chain, and Structure, a men’s shop. His company, which today is called L Brands, briefly owned Lane Bryant, Abercrombie & Fitch, Lerner New York and other concepts. It sold off The Limited in 2007, but remains the corporate parent of Bath & Body Works as well as Victoria’s Secret — a chain that Wexner scooped up for $1 million in 1982. 
  
 Liz Dunn, chief executive of retail consulting firm Talmage Advisors, says The Limited has suffered from its inability to keep up with trends. 
  
 Shoppers, Dunn said, are “looking for really fast fashion, for things that are hyper-relevant to what’s going on in fashion right now — and as inexpensive as possible.” 
  
 The Limited’s sensible office attire doesn’t quite fit that bill. 
  
 The retail environment has proved challenging for a variety of stores: Sports Authority went out of business in 2016, shuttering more than 460 locations in U.S. malls and strip malls. PacSun, Aeropostale and American Apparel each have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past year and are aiming to reorganize and revive their businesses. 
  
 Macy’s announced this week after a disappointing holiday season that it would aim to cut costs in part by closing some stores and slashing 10,000 jobs. 
  
 Earlier, on Nov. 28, The Limited had filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) notice in its home state, Ohio, indicating that a mass layoff was imminent. In a letter to employees that was disclosed as part of the notice, executives said “product misses and massive shifts in retail shopping trends have been especially difficult for the company’s business, and the company is dealing with significant debt obligations.” 
  
 In October, rival women’s brand Chico’s announced that it had poached The Limited’s chief executive, Diane Ellis. ||||| American malls just got emptier. 
  
 The Limited, a once-popular women's clothing brand that offers casual attire and workwear, no longer has any storefronts. 
  
 On Saturday, a message on the store's website read, "We're sad to say that all The Limited stores nationwide have officially closed their doors. But this isn't goodbye." The website will still be up and running and will continue to ship nationwide, the company said. 
  
 Two decades ago, The Limited was on fire. It operated more than 750 stores across the country. The brand acquired several others, including Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch, and it's responsible for creating the massively popular children's brand spinoff, Limited Too, in the 1990s. 
  
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 But The Limited brand fell on hard times in the mid-2000's. Sun Capital Partners, a private firm, took over its management in 2007 -- spinning the flagship brand off from the other L Brands (LB) labels. Limited Too was eventually acquired by Justice parent-company Tween Brands. 
  
 The Limited is among a long list of brick-and-mortar retailers that once thrived in malls and strip shopping centers -- but are now suffering at the hands of digital commerce giants like Amazon (AMZN) and fast fashion stores such as H&M and Forever 21. 
  
 Related: Sears and Kmart closing 150 stores 
  
 Macy's (M) also brought bad news to mall shoppers. On Wednesday, the company said it's shutting down another 68 of its U.S. storefronts. And Sears (SHLD) said Friday that it's shuttering 150 more Kmart and Sears locations. |||||
Output:
The Limited is a mall staple no longer, abruptly announcing that all its remaining 250 locations would close Sunday, reports the Washington Post, resulting in about 4,000 job losses. Per a statement on the retailer's website: "We're sad to say that all The Limited stores nationwide have officially closed their doors. But this isn't goodbye," as the company's website will continue to operate. It's a stark turnaround for a chain that "was on fire" two decades ago, notes CNN, with a peak of more than 750 stores. But the writing was on the wall, notes the Post, over a holiday shopping season that saw discounts of up to 80% and a sudden no-returns policy. The major culprit driving The Limited's demise, one retail consultant says, is that shoppers are "looking for really fast fashion, for things that are hyper-relevant to what’s going on in fashion right now—and as inexpensive as possible." (Macy's also announced layoffs after a miserable holiday season.)