{"id":1528,"date":"2010-03-06T00:46:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T05:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2022-08-24T22:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T02:38:55","slug":"kittys-hallmark-dutch-square-feb-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Kitty's Hallmark, Dutch Square: Feb 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/03\/ds_kittys01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/03\/ds_kittys01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe this <i>Hallmark<\/i> store in Dutch Square occupied the same space as <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=361\">Browz-A-Bit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I used to go into <i>Browz-A-Bit<\/i> all the time, but I can only specifically recall going into <i>Kitty's<\/i> once.  As you may have gathered if you have read a lot of these posting, I'm a big fan of <i>The Beach Boys<\/i>, and for reasons which probably only make sense to them, they released a CD of live recordings and member solo tracks, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/music\/article\/cd-review-the-beach-boys-songs\/\">Songs From Here and Back<\/a> exclusively through <i>Hallmark<\/i> stores a few years back, and I picked up my copy (it's reallly pretty good) at <i>Kitty's<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2010\/02\/26\/1175425\/shop-around-two-hallmark-stores.html\">This  story from The State<\/a> says that sales at the Dutch Square location had declined from a million dollars a year to two hundred and fifty thousand, a decrease of 75%!  Given that, I can see how closing the store made sense.  Obviously this is bad for the struggling mall though.  It's recently lost two national brands with this and <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1324\">Chick-Fil-A<\/a> closing.  On the plus side, it has gotten two new local restaurants, though the re-opening of <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1073\">the D'Avino's space<\/a> as another pizzeria probably really only counts as restoring the status-quo from a mall point of view.<\/p>\n<p><b>24 August 2022<\/b>: Updating tags and adding map icon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/421+Bush+River+Rd,+Columbia,+SC+29210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe this Hallmark store in Dutch Square occupied the same space as Browz-A-Bit. I used to go into Browz-A-Bit all the time, but I can only specifically recall going into Kitty's once. As you may have gathered if you have read a lot of these posting, I'm a big fan of The Beach Boys, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[22,2911,3576,4],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-dutch-square","tag-greeting-cards","tag-kittys-hallmark","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}