"Vystar, a publicly traded company, acquired a majority interest in the company in 2019. Steven Rotman is CEO of Vystar. He previously said that Rotmans ended 2021 at around $30 million in sales, two to three million less than prior to the pandemic. ". From the article that was posted. He's not a retiree, he's the majority shareholder of vystar, which owns rotmans. You are exactly what my first comment was referring to, somebody that looks at the parking lot once a week and thinks they know what's going on over there. Vystar s financials are public and you can see the 30 million on their annual financial statement. It's a holding company he created to sell air purifiers, latex mattresses, condoms and to operate rotmans. This article also pretty clearly says they turned showroom into warehouse with the renovation to have more things in stock at the time of purchase to ship faster

For the record, I think rotmans sucks, but they've been stacking cash for the better part of 100 years. If they are closing, it's probably because they feel like it.