It’s the end of the road for in at the Wynnewood Shopping Center.
Though spared in February when the Borders Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy—closing 200 stores across the nation—it and the other 398 remaining Borders have been undergoing liquidation .
Some 40 jobs have been lost at the Wynnewood store, most of them part-time.
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The closure will also leave vacant about 27,500 square feet of space over two floors. The store is one of four “anchors” in the Wynnewood Shopping Center, with a , a supermarket, and an . The Borders space is more than 10 percent of the center's 255,000 square feet.
The closed Monday night, taking with it 30 jobs.
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Borders Group President Mike Edwards, in a July statement, blamed the “headwinds” of a “rapidly changing book industry, eReader revolution, and turbulent economy” for the position the company found itself in.
On Wednesday, a clerk at the Borders in Wynnewood advised last-minute deal-seekers to get to the store by 6 p.m.
The pickings were very slim on Wednesday, and the second floor was completely empty of merchandise.
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