Why is hot topic closing

B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. When one door closes, another one opens. In this case, it is the same door. Over the weekend there were quite a few stories and posts popping up on social media about the abrupt closing of Hot Topic at the Apache Mall in Rochester, Minnesota. I went to the mall on Saturday to see if the store was officially closed up and the gate was in fact down at the doorway with a sign attached that said: "temporarily closed".

If you decided to NOT jump on Facebook over the weekend, you probably missed the entire deal of Hot Topic closing and the employees walking out on the job. You can get up to speed here and see the note that was left by employees - which, by the way, was not the same note that was at the store on Saturday when I showed up.

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