{"id":16843,"date":"2020-02-17T23:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16843"},"modified":"2020-08-20T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T03:37:20","slug":"earth-fare-3312-devine-street-suite-b-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16843","title":{"rendered":"Earth Fare, 3312 Devine Street Suite B: February 2020 (Open Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620186.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620186_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620186_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620186_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620187.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620187_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620187_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620187_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620188.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620188_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620188_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620188_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620189.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620189_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620189_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620189_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620190.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620190_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620190_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620190_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620191.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620191_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620191_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620191_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620192.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620192_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620192_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620192_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn't go there too often, but I liked <i>Earth Fare<\/i>.  It was kind of in between <i>The Fresh Market<\/i> (one of my main go-tos) and <i>Whole Foods<\/i>, but without being obnoxious like <i>Whole Foods<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/business\/article239912903.html\">The State reported<\/a>, the chain announced on 3 February 2020 that they were going into liquidation and closing all stores:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a news release Monday, the Asheville-based company pointed to \u201cchallenges in the retail industry\u201d that have kept the company from expanding and improving and have hindered \u201cits ability to refinance its debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, Earth Fare is not in a financial position to continue to operate on a go-forward basis. As such, we have made the difficult, but necessary decision to commence inventory liquidation sales while we continue to engage in a process to find potential suitors for our stores,\u201d the company said in its release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As of yesterday (16 February 2020), the store was still open, but I did not go inside to see how picked-over it was.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 14 August 2020<\/b> -- The new owners are apparently about ready to reopen.  The shelves are stocked with non-perishables, and they are hiring:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/08\/p1660135.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/08\/p1660135_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1660135_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1660135_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/08\/p1660137.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/08\/p1660137_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1660137_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1660137_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/08\/p1660138.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/08\/p1660138_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1660138_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1660138_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 20 August 2020<\/b> -- Open again:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/08\/p1660199.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/08\/p1660199_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1660199_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1660199_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3312-B,+Devine+St,+Columbia,+SC+29205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn't go there too often, but I liked Earth Fare. It was kind of in between The Fresh Market (one of my main go-tos) and Whole Foods, but without being obnoxious like Whole Foods. As The State reported, the chain announced on 3 February 2020 that they were going into liquidation and closing all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2961,111,143,184,4],"class_list":["post-16843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-3312-devine-street","tag-devine-street","tag-groceries","tag-shandon","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843","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=16843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}