Although the discount stores in Goreville' s central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long
In the five years since the opening of Colson' s, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson' s
Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson's opened have been discount stores.