What's worse is that their stores are in more well-to-do (i.e., well, or at least better, read) suburbs and exurbs, so you can't do a "package sale" to any comp

What's worse is that their stores are in more well-to-do (i.e., well, or at least better, read) suburbs and exurbs, so you can't do a "package sale" to any company who's doing well in this environment (Dollar Tree or Big Lots, for example) to take up space there, as the property owner and neighboring stores in the strip would balk at the idea of their anchor store going downmarket. So, they'll have to pawn each property off piecemeal, which is much more laborious.