{"id":4608,"date":"2011-08-15T13:17:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T17:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2011-08-17T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T14:03:29","slug":"losing-north-country-businesses-big-lowes-and-small-red-fox-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/15\/losing-north-country-businesses-big-lowes-and-small-red-fox-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing North Country businesses big (Lowes) and small (Red Fox Books)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to keep your chin up.\u00a0 Late last night, the Lowes corporation abruptly shuttered its big box store in Ticonderoga, as first reported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/breaking2\/x1626824551\/Ti-Lowes-shuttered-without-notice\">Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>, laying off dozens of workers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being a big employer, Lowes was a big player in the southern Champlain Valley economy, a place where contractors and DIYers could get just about anything.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/red-fox-books-to-close-in-glens-falls\/article_1bec1c9a-c75b-11e0-931e-001cc4c002e0.html\">Glens Falls Post Star<\/a> is reporting that Red Fox Books, one of my top-five favorite bookstores in the North Country and western Vermont, is closing its doors &#8212; they blamed the sour economy and the rise of e-books.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have loved our role as booksellers in this community, and we are heartbroken to see this chapter in our lives, and in the life of Glens Falls, come to an end,&#8221; wrote the owners, in a letter quoted by the newspaper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Businesses come and go.\u00a0 It&#8217;s natural and it&#8217;s normal.\u00a0 But in our corner of the world, at this point in a very tough economic cycle, this is painful.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/red-fox-books-to-close-in-glens-falls\/article_1bec1c9a-c75b-11e0-931e-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1V7QZgAM1\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to keep your chin up.\u00a0 Late last night, the Lowes corporation abruptly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}