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Where will we buy our kitchen gear?

A rumor went around Ann Arbor last month: the Williams-Sonoma store in our local mall was about to close.

Williams-Sonoma kept mum through the holidays. The only sign of what might lie ahead was a storewide markdown of 40 percent off, all sales final. But indeed, the store at Briarwood, which had been there since 1992, shut its doors on Jan. 15.

For the …