SHOPPING

UPDATE: It's been a few short months since beauty retailers have slowly started reopening across the country, and while makeup sales have continued to plummet amid the pandemic — seeing an overall decline of 52 percent in the category, according to NPD data — shopping as a whole is still going strong. It just looks…

Popular kids' clothing store The Children's Place is closing around 625 brick-and-mortar US locations over the next 20 months. According to a conference-call transcription about the company's 2020 earnings, reps for The Children's Place said the COVID-19 outbreak "significantly increased" its original closing plans, as ecommerce sales have picked up since the pandemic began. The…