Why Inditex keeps reducing its store network

Inditex is significantly reducing its physical footprint: the fashion group behind brands like Zara and Massimo Dutti ended 2024 with another 129 fewer stores. What is behind this – years-long – trend?

From quantity to quality

Inditex closed its fiscal year 2024 with 5,563 stores, 129 fewer than a year earlier. Compared to 2022, when the company still had 5,815 stores worldwide, the total number of closed locations is even  381, trade magazine Pinker Moda calculated.