Payless To Begin Liquidation Sales At Georgia Stores

ATLANTA, GA — Discount shoe sellerPayless will begin liquidation sales at its U.S. stores on Sunday, a company spokesperson said.

"We expect all stores to remain open until at least the end of March and the majority will remain open until May," the spokesperson said in a statement. Liquidation sales will begin on Feb. 17.
Reuters reported on Friday that the discount shoe retailer plans to close all of its U.S. stores as part of a bankruptcy filing later this month.

The closings would affect about 2,300 U.S. stores, according to the Reuters report. Sources told Reuters that a buyer could still crop up.

Below is the full statement from Payless:

"Payless will begin liquidation sales at its U.S. and Puerto Rico stores on February 17, 2019, and is winding down its e-commerce operations. We expect all stores to remain open until at least the end of March and the majority will remain open until May. This process does not affect the Company's franchise operations or its Latin American stores, which remain open for business as usual."

Payless currently operates over 2,700 stores in North America and Puerto Rico, including several in the Atlanta area:

• 55 Peachtree Street South West, Atlanta
• The Mall West End, 861 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. SW, Atlanta
• The Gallery at South DeKalb, 2801 Candler Road, Decatur
• North DeKalb Mall, 2050 Lawrenceville Hwy., Decatur
• Camp Creek Marketplace, 3662 Market Place Blvd., East Point
• Greenbriar Mall, Atlanta
• Memorial Bend Shopping Center, Stone Mountain
• Cumberland Mall, Atlanta
• 5038 Buford Hwy., Chamblee
• Cobb Center, Smyrna
• Southlake Mall, Morrow
• Perimeter Mall, Atlanta
• Cofer Crossing Shopping Center, Tucker
• Arbor Place Mall, Douglasville
• North Point Mall, Alpharetta
• Marietta Trade Center, Marietta
• Stone Mountain Square, Stone Mountain
• The Mall at Stonecrest, Lithonia
• Centre at Lilburn, Lilburn
• Gwinnett Place Mall, Duluth
• 2769 Chastain Meadows Parkway, Marietta
• Northpointe Market Center, Alpharetta
• Hiram Pavillion, Hiram
• Woodstock Square, 128 Woodstock Square Ave., Woodstock
• 4395 Wade Green Road, Kennesaw
• Lawrenceville Market, Suwanee Road, Lawrenceville

As part of a bankruptcy filing in 2017, Payless closed nearly 700 stores.

News of the potential store closings comes as another big retailer, Sears, narrowly escaped going out of business. Earlier this month, a bankruptcy judge approved a $5.7 billion bid to keep the business operating.

You can read the full Reuters report here.

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— By Patch editor Feroze Dhanoa

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