{"id":10643,"date":"2019-01-24T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10643"},"modified":"2019-01-22T01:07:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T07:07:49","slug":"shopko-closures-hit-small-county-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/shopko-closures-hit-small-county-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopko closures hit small county seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10644\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BloomfieldPamida.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BloomfieldPamida.jpg 640w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BloomfieldPamida-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><em><strong>February 9, 2012:<\/strong> The Bloomfield Pamida is shown shortly after the announcement that the small-scale retailer&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/one-year-after-announcing-planned-merger-with-pamida-shopko-completes-conversion-of-all-pamida-stores-189233971.html\">merger with Shopko<\/a> would result in the Pamida name disappearing. The smallest stores, like this one, were rebranded Shopko Hometown.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The retailpocalypse is big, and it is also hitting places that are small.<\/p>\n<p>Shopko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/shopko-filing-for-bankruptcy-green-bay-wisconsin-based-retail-chain-closing-more-than-100-stores\/\">filed for bankruptcy Jan. 16<\/a>, and will close more than 100 stores, CBS reports. More than three dozen stores nationwide had already been slated for closure, including those in Cherokee, Eldora, and Webster City.<\/p>\n<p>This news adds Bloomfield, Burlington, Clarinda, Estherville, Fort Madison, Hampton, Onawa, and Vinton to the list. Many towns will only have a Bomgaars or Theisen&#8217;s remaining as a chain clothing store. Bloomfield is one of the unlucky ones with neither.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 9, 2012: The Bloomfield Pamida is shown shortly after the announcement that the small-scale retailer&#8217;s merger with Shopko would result in the Pamida name disappearing. The smallest stores, like this one, were rebranded Shopko Hometown. The retailpocalypse is big, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/shopko-closures-hit-small-county-seats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10646,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10643\/revisions\/10646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}