Discount designer doom

Vanishing NY reports that the W. 8th St. Salvation Army Thrift Store is in the midst of a lease renewal negotiation that, judging from the sign in the window, doesn't appear to be going all too well.

The shop is known for its inexpensive designer fashion--"It may be one of the few remaining places in the city where rich, poor, and those in the middle can all go urban-treasure hunting together." Is communal commerce destined to be a thing of the past?