Another sign that main street retailing as we knew it is dying.  Wizzywig, a downtown Ann Arbor store specializing in Japanese pop-culture collectables is moving.  They are relocating their store front to the industrial park by the Ann Arbor Airport where there warehouse is.  The Downtown Ann Arbor store is huge and loaded with the most interesting assortment of japanese food candy, toys, collectable you could ever imagine.  Truely a specialty store.  Well turns out they do a large portion of their business online so why run a big expensive store when you can do more business from cheap warehouse space on the edge of town.  See apattern?  How about Comp USA and Adray appliance to name two other stores bailing out of the high rent retail space probably to invest more in their Internet business model.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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