May 26, 2012
Woman in the Shoe closes
Big-box resale takes its toll
by Tony McReynolds & Sally Mitani
posted 12/22/2011
"The competition was so bad. The minute the Salvation Army moved in, I knew it was over," says Connie Snow, owner of one of the oldest thrift stores in Ann Arbor, the Woman in the Shoe, which closed this fall. "Big box stores--they happen in resale too. It's not just hardware stores."
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