Oregon’s Super Dollar Store to close

Oregon’s Super Dollar Store is going out of business.

“Sales are down, and we’re pursuing other interests,” said owner John Rosauer on Tuesday. “It’s time to turn the page and move onto another chapter.”

He said he bought the store, at 312 W. Washington St. in Oregon’s downtown, approximately 20 years ago.

Rosauer and his sister Sherrie, both Oregon natives who now live in Belvidere, own Rosauer Ventures, Inc., which at one time included 11 Super Dollar Stores in Illinois and Iowa.

Oregon store manager Debbie Wigginton, who has worked there for 12 years, said the store will not close immediately.

“We’re not sure when it will close,” she said. “It’s going to be several months. We’re thinking maybe in the fall.”

The building is for sale or lease, and currently all merchandise is 10 percent off.

Employees were informed last November that the closing was coming, Wigginton said.

Besides Wigginton, who works full-time, the store has three part-time employees.

Rosauer Ventures also owned the Super Dollar Store in downtown Dixon, which announced its closing last November.

That store officially locked its doors this month.

According to an article in the Dixon Telegraph last Nov. 7, besides the Dixon store the Rosauers were closing two more of their stores, one at North Towne Mall in Rockford and another in Maquoketa, Iowa.

Rosauer said they are deciding what to do with the remaining stores they own.