Sunnyside 99 cent store closes for lack of business

Sunnyside will be less one 99 cent store, according to the Sunnyside Post. It seems customers don’t have any extra dollars to buy vinyl table cloths or shower curtains made out of garbage bags. Who doesn’t love a vanity ketchup bottle though?

Grand 99 Cent Store, located at 45-24 46^th Street, closed its doors claiming it did not earn enough pennies each month to pay $17,000 in rent.

They would have to sell 17,000 items a month just to break even. The owners expected rent would rise to around $19,000, so they decided to consolidate their stores.

The owner of the store put a sign in the store window directing customers to her other location, 99 cent Paradise, at 42-06 Greenpoint Ave.

At least we’ll still have Paradise.