What would you do$?$

Nothing. You have been entrusted with information about a potential move that could save part of the company. As an HR professional, you are ethically bound to keep quiet and prepare to assist hundreds of employees with severance and finding other employment.

Tell Jeffrey and Ashlee about the prospect of closing his store to save them the extra financial burdens they are about to undertake. Friendship comes first, and you could swear them to secrecy$.$

Talk to Sol Meyers and try to get his permission to inform Jeffrey and Ashlee of the impending takeover. You would accept whatever he said was the proper thing to do$.$