ETOWAH, Tenn. — Ask 82-year-old Carol Ferguson why she named her vast closeout business the Sundry Store, and she gives you an answer straight out of the dictionary.
“Sundry means any number of related or unrelated items,” said Ferguson, the scooter-driving matriarch of a family business that features a 69,000-square-foot store and warehouse operation on Highway 411 in McMinn County.
Customers flock across state lines to shop at the sprawling Sundry Store, which marks the end of the road for truckloads of closeout goods.
Go to the store’s Facebook page, and you’ll find great deals on rolls of hay, compression shorts, baseball pants, iced tea, clothes washers, showerheads, hair detanglers, spatulas, motorcycle batteries, waffle irons and 12-foot fence gates, to name just a few items.
Where else can you buy hay for your livestock and Halloween costumes for your children under the same roof? Nowhere.