Well closing some stores might be a short term "fix". The main thing they need to do is to start getting better quality merchandise and start coming out with a line ONLY available at the Disney stores and maybe Disney theme parks.
Walk through Wal*Mart and see how much merchandise has a Disney logos, characters, or designs on it, everything from underwear to fishing poles! They are shooting themselves in the foot doing this, and put with that the low quality of the merchandise they do put on the selves to sell at the Disney stores, makes it a bad deal for everyone, including Disney
They need to either change their business model for the stores or suffer the losses each year, to us the Disney stores are not what they once were, they have turned into something that would be home at "the south of the border" tourist trap, that we all stop at while going by

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1980 Off site

2003 Poly, 2 weeks

2005 Pop, 3 weeks

2008 (May) All Stars, 2 weeks

2008 (October) Pop, 1 week

2008 (December) ?, 1 week