NORWAY – After less than a year in business, Country Cupboard Consignment is moving to a bigger space on Main Street.
On Saturday, Aug. 6, the Spare Closet consignment shop, a fixture on Main Street for 26 years, will close. Country Cupboard, currently one door down from the Spare Closet, will move into that bigger space.
“I’m doing very well here,” said owner Gemma Boutilier. “I’ll do better over there.”
Boutilier said there have been no hard feelings between the two Main Street consignment shops. Susan Paradis, who has owned the Spare Closet for the past six years, is her cousin. “She convinced me to open,” Boutilier said.
The Country Cupboard carries many of the same items that the Spare Closet offers, including secondhand clothing and trinkets. Boutilier noted that she also carries baby clothes and plans to sell baby furniture after the store moves.
Boutilier, who also has a third-shift job, runs the store on her own, with a little help from her husband. She plans to close the Country Cupboard from Aug. 7 to Aug. 10 while she moves, and hopes to be open Aug. 11. After the move, she will add Monday to the days she is open.
Paradis’ daughter, Becky Paradis, manages the Spare Closet. She said that since January the store has seen a decline in business, but she doesn’t attribute that to competition from the Country Cupboard.
For the rest of the week, the Spare Closet is holding an “All You Can Carry for $10” sale. Paradis said any items not sold this week will probably be donated to the Salvation Army.
Paradis and her mother are thinking of opening a day-care center after the Spare Closet closes and the space changes hands.
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