ThriftyCat, at 2070 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (at Addison), closed on Feb. 15 after about a year in business. Credit: Nathan Dalton for Berkeleyside After just a year in business, ThriftyCat, the secondhand shop on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, has closed. The reason for the closure centers around the small parking lot outside the shop, which owner Bryce Kalousek-Maritano wanted to use for both retail and storage.