Goody’s is set to become the second major retailer to close within the Selma Mall in the last calendar year.

The store, which has one of the prime locations in the Selma Mall, will close its doors for good on March 28, according to a store manager who could not provide any other information. Goody’s sits directly across from the mall’s main entrance and is one of the first stores shoppers see when they enter.

“It’s sad because there’s a lot of people that shop in there,” said Maxine Johnson, a customer who spent part of Friday shopping at Goody’s. “This is another store that the Selma Mall is losing. We are already very small as it is. We need as many stores as we can have to expand it.”

Goody’s departure comes just eleven months after J.C. Penney closed its doors, citing an effort to strengthen its financial position. J.C. Penney’s closing was part of changes company-wide, as 33 underperforming stores were closed.

At this point, it isn’t clear why Selma’s Goody’s location is closing. Multiple attempts to reach Bria Lundy, the director of public relations for Stage Stores, which owns Goody’s, were unsuccessful Monday.

According to the company’s website, Stage Stores, which is headquartered in Houston, Texas bought the rights to the Goody’s name in 2009 during the Goody’s bankrupting auction, which was held after the retail chain announced it would liquidate its remaining stores in January 2009. Stage Stores also owns Stage, Peebles, Palais Royal and Bealls stores.

Goody’s opened at its current location in the mall in November 2011.

Less than four years later, it looks like the retail giant is headed out of town again.

“It’s like every time we get a new store, they close,” Johnson said.

A district manager who directed calls to Lundy estimated the Selma location employs nine people.

The store was still getting traffic Monday afternoon as shoppers tried to take advantage of discounted prices.

Signs in the store’s windows read “Everything must go” and “store fixtures for sale.”

“When I heard that Goody’s was going out of business, I was very devastated because I like to shop there,” said Amber Scott, a customer at the mall on Monday. “I had to come catch the sales.”

Anthony Alberigi, a specialty leasing representative for Aronov, who leases spaces at the Selma Mall, did not immediately respond to an email request for an interview Monday afternoon.