Store Closing

A major Illinois-headquartered retail company announced that over the course of the next year, it will be closing 150 stores nationwide, and I really hope the one near my house isn't on the closure list...

Part of me feels bad for this, because I buy shoes online, but at the same time, I have gigantic feet, so it's hard to find shoes in my size just browsing the store shelves. I have to special order. So it is with a heavy(ish) heart that I announce the closing of Quincy Mall's Payless Shoe Source...

It seems like every other week another store is closing its doors. From Sears to K-Mart to Radio Shack to JC Penney. And now we can add Family Dollar to the growing list. Now this isn't exactly the stores going out of business. It all goes back to Dollar General's purchase of several Family Dollar locations, and meaning in some markets where there were both a Dollar General and one of the recently