Shaw's 50-year-old Department Store on the Downtown Brick streets is closing down and everything in the store will be sold from wall to wall, before the end of the month.
Noble Shaw opened and operated the store from 1952 until his retirement a few years ago. Thereafter his nephew Terry Strong took over the mantle.
Shaw always considered his customers welfare above corporate welfare, which built their unflinching loyalty to the store for five decades.
Shaw's business philosophy echoed in a letter that he wrote in 1983 to a former Mississippi Governor who stopped and bought a hat from the store.
"One of the problems of our time is that people are more concerned with turnover and corporate profits than they are rendering a useful service to society," Shaw wrote in the letter.
Loyal customers were emotionally nostalgic about the store, which always put its customers first both in letter and spirit.
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