Discount Jeans announces closure of its Townsville Flinders St store

One of Flinders Street’s last remaining historic retail outlets will soon close its doors.

ONE of Flinders Street’s last remaining historic retail outlets will soon close its doors.

Discount Jeans, which has operated in Flinders St since the 1970s, has announced it would be closing its city store.

The street fashion store makes up a chain of shops owned by the Beard family, who opened the first store in Mount Isa almost 70 years ago.

Discount Jeans on Flinders St will close.

The chain, which includes Playtime and Salt 66 stores, had since expanded to a number of shopping centres around Townsville.

Only the Flinders St store would close, the chain announced on social media.

Customers were saddened by the news.

“Certainly the end of an era … grateful that your other stores are still going strong,” Bernadette Josephine said.

“Did all my shopping there. Bought a lot of clothes ‘80s, ‘90s, and year 2000s. I still got four jeans from there, had them for a long time I’m gonna miss that shop,” Irene Nallajar-Nemo said.

The store is selling quirky ex-display items including a retro dive mask, American football helmets, tribal statues and model boats.

The CBD store received a $300,000 revamp in 2002.

At the time, retailer Phillip Beard told the Townsville Bulletin the family-owned store had not enjoyed the same growth in trade the chain’s other suburban stores.

A closing day for the Flinders St store has not yet been announced but it is having a closing down sale which would finish at the end of the month.

Discount Jeans will be closed over the Australia Day long weekend but will reopen on Tuesday.

Discount Jeans was contacted for comment.

Originally published as Discount Jeans announces closure of its Townsville Flinders St store