After weeks of watching products on its store shelves dwindle, customers and employees of the Oxendale’s Market grocery in West St. Paul received bitter news this past week. The store, which opened in 2014 in the strip mall off Dodd Road and Bernard Street, will close by Dec. 23, if not sooner.

The announcement was first carried by the West St. Paul Reader, which noted that Oxendale’s was the fourth grocery store to try to make a go of it in the aging and outdated Doddway Center, preceded by Jim’s Market, R.C. Dick’s and Applebaum’s. Employees, according to the Reader, will not be transferred to Oxendale’s other locations.

What triggered its coming closure?

Managers at the West St. Paul location and two other Oxendale’s groceries in St. Paul and Minneapolis declined comment on Wednesday

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