Baltimore News--The luck runs out: Convenience stores go out of business

John Ruff, 89, who lives two blocks away, finds the Lucky's on East Fort Avenue closed as he arrives to buy milk. All day long, customers visited the stores to see for themselves that the business was closed. (Sun photo by Kenneth K. Lam) Oct 17, 2005

The Baltimore Sun reports, on the front page, of the closing of a small Maryland regional chain of convenience stores located often in retail-impoverished neighborhoods, in "The luck runs out: Convenience stores go out of business."

I wonder if the stores could have been "fixed?"

I thought the same in response to the closing maybe 10 years ago (maybe more) of the local down-market Morton's Department Store.

Although, one of the marks of the independent businessperson is "independence" and sometimes an unwillingness to listen...