WICHITA — The Dwyer’s Hallmark store at 420 S. Andover Road is closing at the end of February, but the Dwyer’s Hallmark stores in Wichita (at Brittany Center at 21st and Woodlawn), Derby and Emporia will remain open.
The Andover store is closing because the Dillons that used to be near it moved farther away.
“That’s really killed our business there,” says Scott Dwyer, who manages the businesses for his parents, Sue and Harold.
The store has been there for 10 years. Dwyer says his family isn’t moving to be closer to the new Dillons because rent would be higher.
The family already has closed its Nifty Fifty store at 321 S. Andover Road. That store used to sell the Hallmark shop’s close-out items along with other close-out merchandise.
“It just didn’t work out, either,” Scott Dwyer says of the store, which opened in 2006. “We started out OK, and the sales just really fell off.”
Business at the other stores is all right.
“I’m not going to say it’s great right now,” Dwyer says. “It’s been a pretty tough year. We’re just hoping for a good Christmas.”