Retail Apocalypse is a compendium of case studies, interventions, and object lessons rescued from the bonfire of retail culture which can be read as a time capsule for the entire glorious, messy, self-aggrandizing history of retail. Building upon the research initiated at ETH in Zurich by curators Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, the exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture explores “current commercial transformations and their impact on society and the built environment, in the context of historic cycles of accumulation, decline, and reinvention.”