![]() ![]() “It had nothing to do with the performance of that store or the staff. “It was a real estate move,” Yuhasz said. Rather, Dollar General was interested in the space for strategic reasons. Yuhasz said the video business did not decline in the Hillsdale area. “The regional manager denied we were selling and then dropped it on our district manager,” Fairbanks said. “We like to keep these things under control.”Īnnie Fairbanks, an employee at Family Video, said she and her coworkers were not told the store would be closing until Monday, Sept. “A couple of Dollar General employees came in and talked to the Family Video staff,” Yuhasz said. Family Video employees, however, found out about the agreement before Highland Ventures could make an official statement. The Collegian reached out to Family Video’s corporate offices, but they declined to comment.Ī couple of weeks ago, Dollar General waived a contingency on that property and then proceeded to a rental agreement, according to Yuhasz. ![]() “My boss was asking, and people at corporate would say everything is fine.” “We kept asking corporate and they kept denying it,” Dunn said. Tiffany Dunn, who has been the manager at Hillsdale’s Family Video for 2 1/2 years, said she and the other employees began hearing rumors three or four months ago. Yuhasz said Family Video employees “certainly had a suspicion” that Dollar General was interested in the building. “Dollar General leases several buildings from Family Video,” Yuhasz said. Yuhasz added that Dollar General offered to lease the building for a long-term period. The parent company of Family Video, Highland Ventures Ltd., will continue to own the building but will lease the space out to Dollar General, according to Jason Yuhasz, the regional director of operations for Family Video. Everything at the store is being sold at liquidation prices until Sept. Carleton Road in Hillsdale will be closing its doors on Monday, Sept. ![]()
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