I love that store and I'll be sad to see it go.

I called one of the Southern California stores and they said they just started their clearance sale last Friday (6/1).  They also said most of the other stores are on the same sales schedule.

This is going to be a great chance to pick up gifts for grads and dads.

The Boston store says the discount is 10-30% off now, to get steeper, but they don't know the schedule or closing date.

Every time I went into a Discovery Store I expected to see the coolest stuff and I was always disappointed. They never sold anything that was new or exiting or even that was terribly scientific. The store was neither here, no there. It was a terrible toy store (because it never stocked anything cool enough to buy) and it was a terrible science experiment store because again, it never sold anything new or exciting and they were probably afraid of law suits so they never sold the stuff that may have been slightly dangerous.

I hate to see any retail go, but this one was no surprise. When you try desperately to bring science to the lowest common denominator, you will always fail because the lowest common denominator is usually wholly disinterested in science. There is no Mythbusters on Fox if you get my drift.

" Just remember to smile and be nice to the folks behind the counters. They're soon about to be looking for work, and that's never a fun thing to do."

Not so. Most of the employees in the stores now work for the liquidator, if not all of them.

We never worked for the liguidator(Gordon Bros.) We were paid by Discovery, our pay never changed, I got good retention $$ to help close plus we were always first for the best deals. Unfortuately alot of us still have no jobs.