Deep discount Norm.  Don't you know we all want a deep discount?  It may seem like Silverman's* prices are high now, but originally the store served the same clientele that MARCs serves now.  But you have to manage shrinkage and I am sure as shrinkage occurs at MARCs that deep discount will go away for our suburban friends...and we will have to move our deep discount stores even further away until the price of getting there makes the deep discount seem not so worthwhile afterall!

*Chris and I bought a mock wedding ring at the Silverman's on Harvard Ave, so I have a bit of nostalgia for that particular location.  I am also sure that the residents in East Cleveland and the Slavic Village neighborhood are glad to have a store at all.  Now, if they get taken over by Big Lots, then I am so there.