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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
Thought I'd start a thread on lakes region empty stores.
Some Meredith empties:
The John Deere store?
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No, the John Deere building was purchased by Pemi Glass for their glass biz, and they in turn subdivided maybe half (?) the retail area to a new biz that is a package forwarding biz for the likes of UPS/FDX.
A pretty good argument can be made that the most local of all Meredith businesses is the Etcetera Shoppe. It's a huge consignment shop where both the consignor (management) and consignee (supplier of merchandise) are probably local folks. Believe they work on a 66%-consignee, 33%-mgmt price split, which is very decent considering that some consignments stores work on a 50-50 split. Unless you are shopping for a car, then Etcetera is one of the best stores in town, and it gets a lot of traffic, 7-days/week.
From books to records to ice skates to kitchen stuff to clothes to furniture to antiques to bicycles to skis to hockey gear to wet suits to tools to glassware to retro clothes to you-name-it........Etcetera!