
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, April 7, 1990                   TAG: 9004090248
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A11   EDITION: METRO 
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ONLY HALF THE STORY ON MERCHANTS MALL

DIRECTIONS given to the Factory Merchants Mall (March 19 story) were excellent, but as usual your newspaper only told half the story.

You forgot to mention that in the multitiered, heavily storied facility, most of the merchants are totally inaccessible to baby strollers, wheelchairs or elderly persons and others who have trouble climbing stairs, lots of stairs.

As far as product pricing is concerned, I failed to see any more reasonable prices than can be found at local department stores.\ WAYNE BOWDEN\ PEMBROKE

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