In 1959, it was merged with Local 789, also a local chartered by the Retail Clerks International Association. When Carson Pirie Scott closed their store in 1992 in Town Square, that ended a relationship that started with The Golden Rule in 1888. Snyder Drug Stores, however, has had a long relationship with the union, starting with Local 2 and continuing today with Local 789. You can have your prescription filled by a union pharmacist at Snyder's. I am not aware of when those stores because unionized, but those members are the last remaining piece of Local 2.
History also teaches a lesson.
Local 2 was made up of store clerks employed in work that required a high degree of service, but produced a rather meager financial reward. Many dedicated union members were intent on improving their working conditions, but their efforts were off-set by many fellow workers who would not join the cause and so, as a whole, they never quite got it all together. The strong bond of unionism that is so necessary to effectively deal with a management that is unsympathetic with the struggles for a better life was never achieved. Photo from the collection of the Minnesota Historical Society.