"Charlie has done his best to keep the community together and behind this store," says cashier Chris P. Chase. "I know how he's struggled and how we've all struggled to keep this place open. It breaks [Sage's] heart to have to close this store."
But a store like Sage's cannot survive without a large base of support, Chase says.
"We needed the whole community to operate--it can't just be one man," Chase says
The Latest Casualty
"No landlord wants to keep a grocery store when he can rent to Sprint, with its big pocket," Gifford says. "It's the almighty dollar that's changing things around here--it's just that simple."
Fred H. Humphreys, whose 100-year-old Square music store Briggs & Briggs was replaced by Adidas earlier this year, says he is saddened by this trend. Sage's closing is a great loss to the Square, he says.
"Now there's no place in the Square to shop for beans, carrots, franks and cupcakes," he says. "They're all looking for more money--they're just going to make a mall out of it."
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