I agree. I arrived there one Saturday for a scheduled turning demonstration to find it locked and dark. No warning. No signs explaining why it was closed or even if it was permenant. The entire stock appears to still be on the shelves.
A week later I received a letter from Woodcraft corporate explaining that Woodcraft Mobile had closed on Sept 28 with no prior warning. They apologized for the inconvenience and offered free shipping for anything order off their web-site for a limited time. That's mighty decent of them, but it still pales in comparison than having one local (it's just not as much fun to drool over pictures on the computer).
I think in Mobile's case it was Location. They were literally located on THE WORST intersection in Mobile (this has been studied and proven, and the MOST DANGEROUS intersection in the state is right down the street). The strip mall it's in has lost it's two biggest renters (Wal-Mart moved into a SUPER Wal-Mart location a half-mile down the road, and Food World went out of business). And it lost one of its accesses when they extended the turning lane at that same worst intersection (to get to it from the North, East or West, you have to go THROUGH that intersection..and there's many people who avoid it like the plague. Used to, when coming in from the East, you could turn into the strip mall before the intersection, but not anymore. Now you have to turn left through the worst intersection, drive PAST any traffic waiting to go north through the intersection (ALOT) and try and find somewhere to turn left into the mall...if you're lucky, you can turn in right past Chick-fil-A, but sometimes have to go quite a ways.)
Way too much info for most, but it still sucks to lose it.
