Tue
Jan 6 2009
09:27 pm
More bad news for East TN: Goody's liquidating
By: R. Neal

Goody's liquidation confirmed

The report says 9800 employees will be affected. Not sure how many of those are local. I'm guessing a bunch at local headquarters.

UPDATE: KNS: More than 800 Knoxville-area employees will be affected by the closing...

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F-Stop's picture

I think there are 4 to 500 at

Submitted by F-Stop on Tue, 2009/01/06 - 9:55pm.

I think there are 4 to 500 at the corporate office. Not sure if that number includes DC as well...

Justin's picture

Thats a pretty damn big

Submitted by Justin on Tue, 2009/01/06 - 10:02pm.

Thats a pretty damn big building/warehouse. Good luck offloading that thing.

Ragsdale2010's picture

Certain Bad News Did not get reported last year

Submitted by Ragsdale2010 (not verified) on Wed, 2009/01/07 - 10:05am.

Clayton Homes and Anderson News both had some fairly significant layoffs/reduction in force last year which escaped the front page of the Knoxville News Sentinel. I'd assume there was a civic coverup as certain entities in our community think Knoxville is recession proof, however, as we are learning in a very difficult manner, we are not and are just as vulnerable, if not more so than other communities, to economic ebbs and flows.

Maybe if we all read to children, Knoxville will be recession proof.

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