Bob Slate Stationer closing
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Universal Hub reports that Bob Slate is closing in Harvard Square. Someone on the Porter Square Neighbors mailing list says the Porter Square store will also close.
The Slate family has been trying to sell the business since October 2009. Sadly, it appears that they never found a suitable buyer.
Cambridge Day has a news story about this. It says the leases are running out on the two Harvard Square stores, and that while the Slate family owns the Porter Square building outright, that store can't stand on its own. The stores will close in March.
ETA: Boston Globe article says one of the two Slate brothers is 73, and that the stores have lost money for the past two years.
The Slate family has been trying to sell the business since October 2009. Sadly, it appears that they never found a suitable buyer.
Cambridge Day has a news story about this. It says the leases are running out on the two Harvard Square stores, and that while the Slate family owns the Porter Square building outright, that store can't stand on its own. The stores will close in March.
ETA: Boston Globe article says one of the two Slate brothers is 73, and that the stores have lost money for the past two years.
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Date: 2011-02-11 04:26 am (UTC)Kind of hard to believe they had to shut their doors before Leavitt & Peirce, though.
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Date: 2011-02-11 12:07 pm (UTC)Sad.
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Date: 2011-02-11 12:02 pm (UTC):(
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Date: 2011-02-11 12:56 pm (UTC)Is there another Real Stationary Store around, still?
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Date: 2011-02-11 03:27 pm (UTC)There's also a newer place in Harvard Square, near where Bruegger's used to be. Paper Source is great, but they under-represent a few important stationery brands, I think.
Is there still a Crane's in Copley?
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Date: 2011-02-12 02:48 pm (UTC)I think the majority of Paper Source's stuff is their own brand, at least for the actual paper products.
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Date: 2011-02-12 07:46 pm (UTC)The Bob Slate stores even have a special notation: "Dealer with the largest assortment of Crane products."
(Maybe the Crane store at Prudential is Crane's only retail store anywhere?)
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Date: 2011-02-12 08:48 pm (UTC)Annoying. Bob Slate was the only supplier for journal notebooks that my wife likes. We spent hours looking for another source and were unsuccessful. It's too bad things had to end this way.
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Date: 2011-02-11 02:12 pm (UTC)Anyone want to change careers and buy a stationery store that's been losing money for two years? Yeah, I didn't think so. :(
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Date: 2011-02-11 03:14 pm (UTC)No...
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Date: 2011-02-11 06:17 pm (UTC)I will miss the stores SO MUCH.
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