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Forever 21 is closing its doors in Canada, and I say good riddance.

The Los Angeles-based retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late September, closing many of its stores across Europe and Asia. Forever 21 issued a statement that it would be retreating back into the U.S. to reconsider and refocus its brand image.

If you’ve ever shopped at a Forever

Opinion

CHRISTINA DOMMER

21 store, you’ll know it’s an overwhelming experience: clothes wall-to-wall, stuffed clearance racks, jackets with tacky slogans on the back. The stores take up valuable real estate at shopping malls, with some reaching 20,000 square feet (1860 sq. m)—that’s bigger than a hockey rink.

I'd liken shopping at Forever 21 to reading a textbook without pictures or diagrams to break it up. There might be some interesting information in there, but it’s not worth rooting through such a large volume of words.

The clothes might be inexpensive, but that doesn’t add up to much because the quality of Forever 21’s