Dress Barn: Dressbarn closing stores, but e-commerce site will live on

Store-closing sales started Nov. 1 at more than 500 Dressbarn locations nationwide, as the company winds down its brick-and-mortar retail business, but the brand will live on online. Dress Barn Inc. earlier this week announced that it has sold the intellectual property assets of Dressbarn and will transition its e-commerce business to a subsidiary of Retail Ecommerce Ventures LLC. A new dressbarn.com platform has a tentative launch date of Jan. 1. "We believe the future of Dressbarn is bright...