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4A TIMES HERALD, PORT HURON, MICHIGAN www.theTimesHerald.com THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011 WE WANT YOUR NEWS Business To pass along news tips about local business or industry, call Angela Mullins, city editor, at (810) 989-6257. 500 4 1,336.32 DOW Al 6-MOT-BILLSJT. .15 4t CRUDE OIL $84.99 8.31 12,288.17 BUSINESS BRIEF Four Michigan-stores to close, company says By CARLOS OSORIO, The Associated Press BANKRUPT BOOKSELLER: Customers walk into a Borders store, which is on the closing list, Wednesday in Ann Arbor. Borders, which helped pioneer superstores that put many mom-and-pop bookshops out of business, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday. House passes bill to end item pricing LANSING The Michigan House has passed a bill eliminating the practice of putting price tags on every item.

The measure passed Wednesday on a 69-41 vote. The bill requires retailers to post the item's price where it can clearly be seen nearby. It now goes to the Senate. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder called for the change in his Jan.

19 State of the State address, saying the 1978 item pricing law is outdated. Retail trade groups support the change, saying the current law results in higher prices. The United Food and Commercial Workers union wants to keep the law. It said jobs would be lost in grocery stores if it's repealed. From wire reports go out of business," Sanborn said.

John King, the owner of well-known used bookstores in Detroit and Ferndale, took some pleasure in the news about Borders. "Nature is taking care of itself. They wiped out so many mom-and-pop independent bookstores," he said. "They Walmarted the cities and towns, and now they're getting what they deserve. I hate including four in Michigan.

Outside one of the stores on the closing list on the edge of Ann Arbor, Kate Sanborn of Ypsilanti said it was sad to see the company struggle. The 41-year-old said she recently ordered books online to be delivered to the store, and news of the bankruptcy filing motivated her to pick up her order. "They're abig company, and it's kind of sad that a lot of the bigger things are starting to By DAVID RUNK The Associated Press ANN ARBOR Shoppers at Borders stores in the bookseller's hometown of Ann Arbor said Wednesday they were worried about the effect of the company's filing for bankruptcy protection on economically struggling Michigan. The company said it will close about 200 of its 642 stores during the next few weeks, HURON DENTAL to be that forward, but that's the way I feel." Borders stores in Dearborn, Grosse Pointe and Utica also are expected to close. The company's store in downtown Ann Arbor, near the campus of the University of Michigan, wasn't on the closing list.

At that store, 38-year-old Eric Cook said he was hopeful the company would find a way to survive and noted smaller booksellers hurt by bigger ones might benefit. "Maybe this will be a boon for the remaining independents," Cook said. Cook, who lives in Ann Arbor and is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan, said as a Michigan native, he likes the idea of supporting local businesses as well as those that are locally based. Like others, he said, he's doing more shopping online at the expense of brick-and-mortar retailers. "It's another tough hit.

The city and the state have gone through a lot of challenges, not just in recent years but in the past several decades. You've got one more punch, right?" At the company's headquarters, in an office building on the city's edge, a security guard shooed away a reporter and photographer. Monika Barera, 50, of Ann Arbor, said she's a regular Borders shopper at the company's area stores. Ann Arbor has been more insulated from the state's economic problems, consistently reporting a lower unemployment rate than the rest of Michigan. She said she was concerned the city could feel the effects.

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