With rising operating costs and shrinking retail margins, seasonal stores all over the Saskatchewan began to close. As elsewhere, the value the Turtle Lake Lodge as an active business had fallen while the value of the land it occupied had dramatically increased. In 2006 the store and property was up for sale. At the end of the 2009 summer season, when an offer was made on the property, they closed the store for the last time. They decided to liquidate the business assets and moved the store to its present location on Turtle Crescent, where the Clarks converted it to their retirement home.