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Discount store chain Fred's announced it would shutter another 104 locations.
The company five weeks ago began liquidation sales at 159 stores.
“These additional store closures are a difficult but necessary step in the continued restructuring of Fred’s,” company CEO Joseph Anto said in the statement.
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