标题: Portage jewelry store to close [打印本页] 作者: eacr 时间: 2007-3-26 13:07 标题: Portage jewelry store to close BY PAUL GRIGAITIS
The Daily Graphic
Wednesday March 21, 2007
Appelt’s Jewellery in Portage la Prairie Mall has announced its plans to close its doors and is holding a sale to clear inventory. Manager Suzanne Parker, right, assists customer Brian Munro who visited the business yesterday.
Photo by Rod SproulePortage la Prairie Mall will be with one less tenant as one of its retailers has decided to cease its operations.
Appelt’s Jewellery has decided to vacate its Portage retail outlet because of the mall’s loss of Wal-Mart and Safeway, two anchors stores which had proven to draw traffic that supports smaller retailers.
“Unfortunately, due to a ‘shift’ in retail traffic, we have had to make the difficult decision to close our doors in the Portage Mall,” Bert Appelt, president of Appelt’s Jewellery, said in a written statement yesterday, adding it “is a direct result of the closing of two anchors.”
“It hurts the flow of traffic,” said Appelt during a phone interview yesterday. “The mall has also had its problems over the last number of years.”
The number of vacancies among the smaller retail spaces also concerned Appelt.
“That doesn’t help,” he said. [url=http://imageads.canoe.ca/ads/dcfc.gif]
