Meek's Lumber closes Stockton, Calif., store

Meek's Lumber, which was founded 86 years ago in Lockwood, closed its Stockton, Calif, plant the day before Thanksgiving. According to the Stockton Record article:

About a half-dozen former employees were gathered in the Meeks parking lot Wednesday morning. They said they were told at 3 p.m. Tuesday that business was off, the Stockton store would be closing and their jobs were terminated. Later this week, they were to be contacted if jobs would be available in the company's other stores, including the nearest outlets in Martell and Elk Grove. However, there would not be enough jobs for all of them, the former employees said, declining to give their names. Store management refused to comment, and no one from the company's West Division headquarters in Sacramento returned messages seeking comment. A spokeswoman in the company's executive office in Springfield, Mo., referred questions to the Sacramento office.