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Lowe's shutting down two RONA stores in northern Ontario, plus a Lowe's

Company closing 31 'underperforming' Canadian stores by Feb. 1
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The RONA store on Barrydowne Road in Greater Sudbury is set to close as Lowe's Companies Inc. focuses on its most profitable stores to improve the overall health of its store portfolio, it said in a news release.

The RONA store on Barrydowne Road in Greater Sudbury, and the Black Road Rona location in Sault Ste. Marie. as well as a relatively new Lowe's location in the Soo is set to close as the company focuses on its most profitable stores to improve the overall health of its store portfolio, it said in a news release.

The North Bay location at 523 McGaughey Ave. is not on the hit list nor is the Lakeview Rona on Memorial Drive.

Nine store closures are expected across Ontario along with 31 Canadian stores that will be shutting their doors by Feb. 1, 2019. Twenty U.S. stores are also be closing.

“While decisions that impact our associates are never easy, the store closures are a necessary step in our strategic reassessment as we focus on building a stronger business,” said Marvin R. Ellison, Lowe’s president, and CEO, in a news release. “We believe our people are the foundation of our business and essential to our future growth, and we are making every effort to transition impacted associates to nearby Lowe’s stores.”

To facilitate an orderly wind-down, the company said it intends to conduct store closing sales for most of the impacted locations with the exception of select stores in the U.S., which will close immediately.

Lowe's opened its Soo location in 2015 after renovations were completed on the former Zellers spot. As recently as August, Lowe's held a job fair for the store.

With files from Sudbury.com and SooToday.