Charleston Town Center had the worst luck last year you can't even change my mind on this. It's a fact. Sephora and a few other stores decided to leave the mall this year. Sephora was the first and it closed a couple of days ago on Jan 3.

My wife's friends said the store closed but I was just there to buy stuff for her birthday. I guess they were wrong.

But they closed one store in SF, but they opened a ton of new stores all over the country - In my mind they are very overpriced and that's causing drop in sales as folks are purchasing stuff on the internet - Amazon is really big and Sephora will be... — read more 

Nobody reasonable competes with Sephora - who can compete with such a big company. They throw money at problems, but I do not think they will close any stores.

I feel for those people, I do. https://www.adweek.com/retail/for-sephora-workers-unceremonious-layoffs-were-sudden-but-understandable/