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I visited the MacShore Factory Outlet store yesterday and there is a small sign on their front door that the Store is Closing, and all items are an additional 40% off. The staff inside that the third generation owner has decided to retire, and sold the property to QT for another gas station.
She said that the original plan was to move the factory to a location on Whitehorse Road, but the plans "fell through" and the factory workers were told last week that they were all losing their jobs.
I haven't seen anything written by the media about this closing.
No, part of the factory was closed, but they still had a portion of it where they were sewing....
It has been neglected and the owners apparently had no family succession plan. There was an apparent attempt to sell the manufacturing assets, the product line, and give the workers a place of employment on White Horse Road, but "it fell through".
They have great deals in the Factory Outlet if you need bedding, pillows, duvet covers, outdoor cushions, zippers, tassels, and remnant fabric. They have a lot of curtain panels available, packaged as "Crate & Barrel". They are all reasonably priced, and now offer an additional 40% off, until they close on 12/31/2016.
If you are crafty and can find a use for assorted buttons, they are being sold for $1.00 a baggie (choose your own). They have a LOT of buttons.
The demise of American manufacturing is sad to witness locally.
(Just my opinion).... it is apparent that the owner had neglected to update and modernize the factory for many years, and had a blind eye to marketing locally. (I, too, thought that it was closed down, but the staff at the Outlet store told me that they still manufacture in part of the factory.)
We happened to turn into the parking yesterday afternoon and were greeted by a dilapidated business sign, proclaiming: "DONT LET THESE BUILDINGS FOOL YOU
LOW OVERHEAD MEANS BIG SAVINGS".
At one point, this corner of Laurens Rd was a booming enterprise, and no matter the reasons, the buildings will be razed for another QT.
Someone should probably build a hotel down that direction. Am I mistaken or is the only hotel that old.. I don't know what it is now, but it was a HoJo Express a number of years ago and the Red Roof Inn which is quite shady as well.
A nice hotel (Think Hampton Inn) in that area would probably be welcome by the folks out at ICAR.
The property is already sold to Quick Trip.
(The Bojangles down Laurens Road is being rebuilt nearby, and the original Bojangles, along with the Baileys/Fox and Hound, are being torn down for another Quick Trip).
I have lived here for 5 years, and I never knew that the Outlet store was open until Saturday. Who knew that Crate and Barrel drapes were sewn right here in Greenville?
The property is already sold to QuikTrip.
(The Bojangles down Laurens Road is being rebuilt nearby, and the original Bojangles, along with the Baileys/Fox and Hound, are being torn down for another QuikTrip).
This is the first I am hearing of another QuikTrip opening on Laurens Road. Two stores nearby is a smart move.
The property is already sold to Quick Trip.
(The Bojangles down Laurens Road is being rebuilt nearby, and the original Bojangles, along with the Baileys/Fox and Hound, are being torn down for another Quick Trip).
I have lived here for 5 years, and I never knew that the Outlet store was open until Saturday. Who knew that Crate and Barrel drapes were sewn right here in Greenville?
That is not an easy in and out for QT at Laurens and Haywood. Pretty much impossible left turn into that property much of the day however there is the road behind it before the shopping center.
Me too on the Crate and Barrel. How about a store here C&B?
From Laurens Road, a left turn onto Haywood Road, then a right turn onto Old Woodruff Road could get you into a future QuikTrip.
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Macshore, 2836 Laurens Road, Greenville, South Carolina 29607-5226
