A shopper digs through the shrinking stock Tuesday at the Salvation Army's Lyndora Thrift Store, 1 Main St., Lyndora. The store is set to close Saturday. It opened in the 1970s, but slow sales and limited space resulted in Pittsburgh administrators deciding to close the store.

LYNDORA — After more than 30 years of helping shoe and clothe both the less fortunate and the frugal, the Lyndora Salvation Army Thrift Store is closing Saturday.

Martina O'Leary, the Pittsburgh Salvation Army administrator for business, said the store is at a "disadvantage, because it can't expand. It's hard to park there, and it's sales are smaller than the other Center Township store (on Route 8 north)."

The Lyndora store, 1 Main St., sits at the intersection of Main Street, Whitestown Road and Hansen Avenue. Getting in and out of the parking lot can take some patience and luck.

O'Leary said the store's five employees have been offered the opportunity to join the 15 workers at the larger Center Township store but couldn't say how many had accepted.

The Salvation Army owns the building that houses the Lyndora store. As to its future, O'Leary said she doesn't know yet, but it will probably end up for sale.

"We wouldn't lease it," she said. "We don't want to be landlords."

The Lyndora store closes permanently at 5 p.m. Saturday.