Shopko will double the store closures originally announced
February 7, 2019
Shopko, the Wisconsin-based discount department store chain, issued a list of store closures this week that revealed it is planning to shutter 251 stores, or about 70 percent of its locations. That number is more than double what Shopko announced in mid-January. The company, founded in 1962, operates stores in over two dozen states.
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