Thrift Town’s last remaining Sacramento store to close permanently due to pandemic
Thrift Town is permanently closing its two California stores, including the chain’s last remaining Sacramento location, after months of lost business due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The family-owned small business chain will not be reopening its El Sobrante location or the store on El Camino Avenue in Sacramento, according to an announcement on Thrift Town’s website.
Ownership wrote that they were able to secure a Payroll Protection Plan loan from the Small Business Association, which allowed them to pay their entire staff during state and countywide stay-at-home orders that began in March.
“Unfortunately, we do not have the resources available to reopen our California Thrift Town Stores,” reads the announcement, which appeared on the website Tuesday night.
Thrift Town closed its other two Sacramento-area locations, on Fair Oaks Boulevard in Carmichael and on Stockton Boulevard in south Sacramento, in early 2019 due to declining business at the brick-and-mortar retailers. Those two locations were converted to Goodwill stores.
The El Camino store was featured in the 2017 film “Lady Bird,” written and directed by Sacramento native Greta Gerwig. It appears in scenes where Laurie Metcalf’s character helps Saoirse Ronan’s titular character shop for dresses at Thrift Town.
Thrift Town has four other locations outside of California that are not planning to close in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Texas cities of Austin, Dallas and San Antonio.
“Always remember, small businesses are the heartbeat of your neighborhood, the spine of your local economy and the spirit of your town,” family business owners Jeff Norquist, Lane Steinmetz and Wendy Steinmetz wrote in an email to customers Tuesday evening.
