Half Price Books is closing its store in Irving, Texas, after it was unable to move into "about half of the former Barnes & Noble space on MacArthur," according to the Dallas Morning News. Two B&N stores closed in Irving late last year. Half Price senior v-p Kathy Thomas said that there was "a spike in sales" but not enough.
In other company news, Half Price, which has 117 stores, opened a store in Chicago over the weekend and plans to open another in Austin, Texas, in July, the paper wrote. Stores in Seattle and Kansas City will be relocated this summer.