A greeting card store at the Clearfield Mall will close next month.

The manager says Matus Enterprises of Wilkes-Barre is shutting down about 10 Heritage Hallmark franchises statewide, while keeping some company-owned stores.

She says the mall has had some type of Hallmark store since it opened in 1979, and now she and 9 part-timers will have to look for work elsewhere.

“Our personal store here, we were doing fine, but because of the ownership of all the stores put together, in the bigger places, they were not,” says manager Mary Kay Royer. “Around here, like I said, people are very loyal and in the cities, they’re not necessarily so, and then too with the internet business….”

Royer says liquidators came in a couple weeks ago, and she’ll miss the loyal customers she’s met over the past 29 years working there.