Central Pa. will lose nearly a dozen stores when Payless ShoeSource closes
Shelly StallsmithPayless ShoeSource is joining Toys R Us and Kmart in the ranks of former stores.
Its remaining 2,100 stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico will be closed by May. Liquidation sales begin Sunday, and some stores could close as early as the end of March.
Southcentral Pennsylvania, which largely avoided the axe when 400 stores were closed in 2017 as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, will lose nearly a dozen stores in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties.
The company is also ending its e-commerce operations, but not the company's franchise operations or its Latin American stores, the company said in a statement to USA Today.
The Payless closings will nearly double the number of national store closings announced so far in 2019, including Gymboree, Shopko and Charlotte Russe stores.
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