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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