15 February 2019 (12:49 UTC-07 Tango 06) 26 Bahman 1397/09 Jumada t-Tania 1440/11 Bin-Yin 4717

The writing has been on the wall since Spring 2017, now it’s final, about 2-thousand-5-hundred (here’s a map) Payless shoe stores to be shutdown as part of the company’s plan to file for bankruptcy.

Payless in the struggling Pine Ridge Mall, Chubbuck, Idaho

In Spring 2017, employees of the Payless store in the Pine Ridge Mall, in Chubbuck, Idaho, survived a sudden Payless store shutdown operation which resulted in hundreds of stores across the U.S. being permanently closed almost over night. Just a few months later Payless administrators, based in Kansas, conducted another round of shutdowns as part of it’s first bankruptcy filing.

This final Payless shutdown is the result of a second, and obviously terminal bankruptcy filing, and comes just days after the Chubbuck ShopKo store, also on the Pine Ridge Mall property, fell victim to a massive nationwide shutdown.