“Going out of business” and "store closing" signs were posted throughout the Gander Mountain location in Hermantown on Thursday, and a liquidation sale was underway - but the CEO of the company that bought the bankrupt outdoors chain said via Twitter that the store would in fact remain open.

Late Thursday, Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis reported that - despite the signs - the store would not be closing; he said the signs were posted by liquidators who would be clearing out the old inventory to make way for a Gander Mountain location stocked with "fresh stuff and the right stuff."

The Hermantown store was not the only Gander Mountain location where there was confusion Thursday. "Going out of business" signs were posted on the store in Fargo, too - a store that Lemonis also tweeted would, in fact, remain open.

St. Paul-based Gander Mountain filed for bankruptcy in March; the chain has about 160 stores.

Gander Mountain opened its first Duluth-area store in 1993; it moved to its present 65,000-square-foot location at 4275 Haines Road in Hermantown in 2005.