Greeting card company Papyrus to close all stores, including Arden Fair location

Greeting card and stationery store Papyrus is the latest to suffer from retail sales slumps and is closing all of its stores across the country.

Papyrus was founded by Marcel and Margrit Schurman in 1950, according to their website, and has been a publisher, wholesaler, franchiser and retailer throughout their history. They are part of the Schurman Retail Group and have over 260 stores across North America.

“Despite our Herculean efforts to realign our Papyrus and American Greetings stores to fit today’s shopping environment, Schurman Retail Group had to make the difficult decision to close all 254 of our stores in North America,” Dominique Schurman said to the USA Today Network’s Indianapolis Star.

The only store in the Sacramento area is inside Arden Fair Mall and has signs posted in the windows saying “Everything Must Go” and “All Sales are Final.” An employee of the store said the company announced the closure of all stores last week, but said she could not give further details. The employee, who declined to give her name, said she was unsure when the store’s final day would be.

Calls to the company’s headquarters in Tennessee went to voicemail and were not returned.

The description of the store from Arden Fair Mall is “Specialists in elegantly designed paper products offering an array of greeting cards, stationery, invitations, gift wraps, custom printing and more.”

All items in the store and on the website are 20 percent off and all sales are final.