storewanderer wrote: ↑December 27th, 2018, 6:29 pm
It is interesting they were able to reverse the decision to close Bonners Ferry. Maybe the money from the pharmacy sales are allowing them to prop things up a while longer. Or they had a good holiday season (I hope...).
What is interesting though is how they decided to keep Bonners Ferry open while deciding to close a Boise store instead. The Boise store, on Fairview, was Shopko's first location in Boise, and opened around the same time as the Nampa location. The Broadway store opened in the early 1990s. It's worth noting that when Shopko entered Boise in 1986, Kmart was present, but Walmart and Target had not arrived yet, Fred Meyer was just establishing themselves with a mix of new-build superstores and acquired Grand Central locations, and Boise did not even have an enclosed mall yet. Things have changed considerably.
It will be interesting to see if Shopko shifts any more of the closures around like this.