HANOVER -- The Wal-Mart store at the Hanover Mall will be closing on Oct. 25 and most of the items in the store are now being sold at a discount of 25 percent. All sales are final.

A large sign that says "Closing" hangs on the front outside of the store and the shelves inside are beginning to show bare spots, as customers buy up items and they are not being restocked.

The 25 percent discount is automatically taken at the cash register. Some store employees were learning about it Friday as they came to work.

The store employs a number of older workers and several employees said they have been offered positions at other area Wal-Mart stores including Weymouth, Quincy, Avon and Abington.

The merchandise that remains in the Hanover store will be sent to the other area stores. One employee said, "They don't want a Wal-Mart store here" when the mall is redesigned.

The Patriot Ledger reported in July that a Market Basket supermarket will anchor the new proposed Hanover Crossing shopping center and will be in the same space the Wal-Mart store has occupied. The Market Basket will be in a new building roughly where the the Wal-Mart store is in the present Hanover Mall, Ed Callahan, the general manager of Hanover Mall, said in July.

The site will be shifted a bit to provide additional parking at the front of the building.



In September the Patriot Ledger reported that Showcase Cinemas will become the second anchor tenant for the proposed Hanover Crossing mixed-use complex.