Haskell’s has closed its only wine and liquor store in Woodbury. “We are closed,” a sign taped on the front door states. “Thank you for your patronage!”

The store employed a total of 12 full-timers and part-timers, according to Katan Ratnam, the manager of Haskell’s Stillwater. Those employees were offered employment at Haskell’s 11 other metro locations.

Ratnam said the Woodbury store had lost money since the COVID-19 pandemic. Business bounced back a bit as the pandemic waned but not enough to make up for cost increases including rising rent. Stiff competition from the Total Wine & More superstore that opened in 2014 in Woodbury didn’t help.

“It was a culmination of things,” Ratnam said of the decision to close the store at 6445 Lake Road in July. “There were a lot of factors that went into it.”

The retailer has served Woodbury since 2001, Ratnam said. “Sad to hear they’re closing down for good,” one reviewer on Google stated. The first Haskell’s opened in downtown Minneapolis in 1934.