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Payless ShoeSource closing store in Niskayuna
The Business Review
Date: Friday, December 9, 2011, 2:58pm EST

The Payless ShoeSource    store at Mohawk Commons in Niskayuna, New York, is closing.
The store sent a letter to customers this week informing them the store will close.
The last day in business is expected to be at the end of this month, or early January.
Payless ShoeSource has eight other stores in the Albany region.
A message left at the company’s headquarters in Topeka, Kansas, was not returned.

http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2011/12/09/payless-shoesource-closing-store-in.html

Are the 8 other stores in Albany staying open?

Wouldn't a national retail shoe store chain be GREAT downtown?

Yep, guess Gillen dropped the ball.....again.....

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Are the 8 other stores in Albany staying open?

Wouldn't a national retail shoe store chain be GREAT downtown?

Yep, guess Gillen dropped the ball.....again.....

they would rather have a Dollar Store......

retail? Downtown??  

ahhahahahahahahahahha - you're funny.

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retail? Downtown??  ahhahahahahahahahahha - you're funny.

If you want shoes go to Saratoga or Colonie. Another nationwide retailer leaves Schenectady County. Death Ray keeps lying about talking to national retailers. And? NOTHING-zero-all lies. When you have anti-business policies don't be surprised when you have no businesses. Chipotle could have moved in here or any of the many empty storefronts in Nisky's Hannaford Plaza.

Rotterdam Mall has one......little by little chain stores are going down the tubes.....and most of their products sold in USA are

not even manufactured here....I am for MADE IN USA.....and trying to stick to that.....it's very hard...but if you go on the internet

there are many products made in USA,,,,,bring back our factories...

It would be great to have a shoe store downtown --  I would suggest a branch of Delmar Bootery or some other shoe store in the area BEFORE recommending a national chain.

While it is sad that Payless Shoes is closing, the company has been doing poorly nationally and  IMHO it is NOT one of the better shoe stores.

oh....you payless....you wear them less....because they fall apart.....

Years ago...shoe stores were in numbers downtown....Avery....Jr Bootery, Wallace Co Shoe Dept....Carl Co Shoe Dept, and

on and on it goes....that's when you could call downtown a "menu" of business.....and yes, there were resturants....

Vendome, cafeteria in the cellar.....etc.,

That's when the City had bueiness and there were 3K jobs.....

Now what do you have???....business from Nott Terrace to Erie Blvd...on State St....

Back in the day.....and it still can happen...but tunell vision rules...what are these people thinking????

If nisky can't support a shoe store....downtown certainly won't!! The city is too crime ridden with a population that are in the dssline. The city population can't and won't support downtown retail. And nobody will come to schenectady as it stands because of the crime, drug dealers/addicts, gangs, panhandlers and shooters! Actually, most schenectadians who are left that can afford to buy 'anything' will venture out of the county. The dss folks venture down 'walmart way'....aka altamont ave/rotterdam.

So, not too long ago, some of the people here were stating that Rotterdam Square was behind the times and needed to become more like Mohawk Commons, right?  I think it was DVOR that said that Rotterdam Square would utterly fail if it didn't become like Mohawk Commons, right?  Well, here's one retailer that disagrees.  They have had stores in both locations, and need to close one of the locations, AND THEY PICK CLOSING MOHAWK COMMONS???  And then the same person that says that we need more places like Mohawk Commons and less like Rotterdam Square thinks it's a good idea to steal business from the Rotterdam Square store to have them get the same sales down by Proctors?  And where would they go?  There's not many places down there that aren't already filled with non-taxpaying business.

good point

very good article on the subject that shows "someone" is ill informed about the death of malls
http://retailtrafficmag.com/development/analysis/return_of_the_mall_05052011/

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They have had stores in both locations, and need to close one of the locations, AND THEY PICK CLOSING MOHAWK COMMONS???  And then the same person that says that we need more places like Mohawk Commons and less like Rotterdam Square thinks it's a good idea to steal business from the Rotterdam Square store to have them get the same sales down by Proctors?  And where would they go?  There's not many places down there that aren't already filled with non-taxpaying business.

Good post until the last line. Cross Erie Blvd-neutron bomb site. The people are gone but the empty storefronts are open. NO CHAIN will go to Downtown. Death Ray has been lying about a national retailer coming for 5 years. ZIPPO! You can't buy shoes-no can't buy a mop. On another blog some politard recommended buying used shoes. The problem is Countywide. We have fiscal incompetents driving this County into the dirt. Incomes are down, taxes are way up=less disposable income. National retailers know this.

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So, not too long ago, some of the people here were stating that Rotterdam Square was behind the times and needed to become more like Mohawk Commons, right?  I think it was DVOR that said that Rotterdam Square would utterly fail if it didn't become like Mohawk Commons, right?  Well, here's one retailer that disagrees.  They have had stores in both locations, and need to close one of the locations, AND THEY PICK CLOSING MOHAWK COMMONS???  And then the same person that says that we need more places like Mohawk Commons and less like Rotterdam Square thinks it's a good idea to steal business from the Rotterdam Square store to have them get the same sales down by Proctors?  And where would they go?  There's not many places down there that aren't already filled with non-taxpaying business.

Payless Shoes has had problems nationally --- and I have no idea why they chose to close the Niskayuna store and have no idea whether they intend to keep the one in Rotterdam Square Mall open.

i challenge you to show where I said anyone should "steal a business" from Rotterdam Square Mall to put down by Proctor's.

Oh -- and you folks keep saying that Downtown is an "empty ghost town" -- so how come now you are saying there is no place for a business to go Downtown ???      You need to get your lies straight -- you have told so many that you are confusing yourself.