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Local News - Local - October 25, 2012
Cheney Ben Franklin store to shutter in coming weeks
Economy, more competition, retirement among factors leading to decision to close

By Treva Lind
Of the Journal of Business

the early 1980s when Michael Nation's parents, Bill and Nancy Nation, bought it from Henry Benjamin, who opened it in 1975. Another son, Steve Nation, also has an ownership interest in the business.

The store originally occupied space in a supermarket building that now houses a Trading Co. grocery store. In 1991, it moved next door to the leased building it now occupies.

Nation says the family business will keep open another Ben Franklin outlet it owns, located at 201...


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