Besides the baseball card shows, Mounds View Square’s focal point was the Petters Warehouse. Petters Warehouse closed in October 2008 after Tom Petters was charged with leading a large investment fraud scheme.
Now that Petters Warehouse is closed, where will I buy factory-second Levis and seperated lotion from?
Petters Warehouse was basically an “outlet” store, selling overstock, discontinued products, salvage merchandise, and customer returns. That said, you can imagine the junk you’d find in this store.
Now, to be fair, it wasn’t ALL junk. Petters Warehouse was one of those stores where it depended on what day you visited. Some days = junk. Other days = treasure. In my experience, it was mostly junk.
One time, I saw a boxes upon boxes of “Body Solutions, the Evening Weight Loss Formula.” Remember this shit?! Flashback to the early ’00s – every radio DJ in the Twin Cities hawked this snake oil shit! Lose weight while you sleep! Screw exercise! Fuck following healthy diet! Just drink a teaspoon of this magic liquid and watch the pounds melt away. If PAT EBERTZ was selling this crap, you know it didn’t work. You’d probably be better off wrapping garbage bags around your body and sitting in a sauna for a few minutes than drinking this potion.
They sold clothing here too. Mostly ugly stuff. Think orange waffle shirts from Kohls in odd sizes. Flannel shirts from Sears with one sleeve longer than the other. Machiavelli-Brand Tupac Jeans. Sweatshirts with thugged-out Looney Tunes characters. Nothing says “sophistication” better than getting your wardrobe from Petters Warehouse!
However, Petters Warehouse is closed for good since Mr. Petters is rotting in a jail cell, awaiting trial.
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