The Wainui Store in Oneroa Road has closed.
Liz and John Woods bought the business four years ago and initially closed it late last year after being unable to sell it.
“Sorry to say this but as the current owners we are today finally closing the shop,” Mr Woods said in a Facebook post yesterday.
“Precipitated by Covid-19 but mainly by our failure to find a buyer for the business after difficulties in obtaining consent for assignment of our lease to new owners.”
Mr Woods told The Gisborne Herald: “It's very, very sad. It's an end of an era.