Towson University’s UStore was slated to open last Friday, with many people gathering before opening to capitalize on an expected 80% discount on nearly the entire store. But before it opened, a UStore employee notified the crowd that the sale was canceled due to an error by the store.
The university store is in transition from being run in-house by Towson, to being managed by outside contractor Follet Higher Education, which manages over a thousand university retail stores. To clear old inventory before the official take over of Follett in March, the store has offered numerous merchandise sales.
None of them, however, quite caught the buzz of campus like the 80% off discount event that started last Wednesday. All items except textbooks, supplies and pantry items were included in this sale, which drew lines that wrapped to the back of the store on Thursday…