Free Republic

Chase-Pitkin Home and Garden Centers, no longer able to successfully compete with the giant Lowe's and Home Depot chains, is going out of business, starting with the store on Chambers Road and another near Syracuse. Those two stores will close by the end of March, Chase-Pitkin's parent company, the Rochester-based Wegmans Food Markets Inc., announced Tuesday. Two remaining Syracuse stores and 10 others in the Rochester area also will close, but a timetable for those moves hasn't been established, said Jo Natale, media relations director for Wegmans. While 122 jobs will be lost when the Big Flats store closes, local...