Warshaw's to Close? Last Friday, me n' my gal pals met for lunch (at SoupSoup on Duluth--delicious!) and then meandered down St-Laurent looking for stuff to buy. A great place for picking up stuff has always been Warshaw's. I have carpets, pillows, pots, candle holders, and a ton of other things that I've purchased there over the years. If you're a browser, Warshaw's is perfect. Pick up a bag of nuts or dried fruit. Have a look at the plants and the pots. Up the pillow and carpet aisle. Down the plastic and pots and pans aisle. Up the dishes and ceramics aisle. Skip the food aisles and head over to the big table at the back full of more stuff--singing ostriches, ceramic rabbits, decorated notebooks, crystal candleabras. When we walked in, the aisles were empty. "Oh, they must be preparing for a shipment of new stuff," one of my pals said hopefully. My other pal immediately saught a Warshaw's employee with a friendly face and asked, "Hey, how come this place is so empty?" "Do you want the official answer or the real answer?" he replied. "The real one," we said. "This place will be closed in a couple of weeks." Indeed, when we go to the cash, the cashier was in a foul mood. It seems that of the dozen or so checkout counters, only three had working cash registers, and hers required that she give her cash drawer a hard hip check to close it. "They're not going to repair these," she said. I'm gonna miss this place...