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beauty products. housewares. The May Department Stores Company was an American department store holding company, formerly headquartered in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. [ 1] It was founded in Leadville, Colorado, by David May in 1877, moving to St. Louis in 1905. [ 2] After many changes in the retail industry, the company merged with Federated ...
Es de Velasco (High-end, department store, founded in 1939, acquired by González Padín, closed in 1995.) New York Department Stores (Founded in 1931, acquired by the Melville Corporation in 1994, most stores turned into Marshalls .) Pitusa (Discount, department store, founded in 1976, bankrupt in 2014.)
G.E.M. G. E. M. Membership Department Stores was a chain of discount stores, in the US and Canada. Their first location opened in Denver in 1956. GEM offered something different: membership. The qualifications included government-, religious- and school employees, members of the armed forces, and employees of companies that did “substantial ...
Number of locations. 94 warehouses (1993) Area served. United States, Canada, Mexico. Price Club was an American warehouse club chain. Founded in 1976, it merged with its competitor, Costco Wholesale, in 1993. The original Price Club warehouse in San Diego, California, is now Costco location number 401. [1]
Ames (1984-2002) King's Department Stores was a chain of discount stores in the Eastern United States. The chain started in 1956, in Brockton, Massachusetts. They expanded to 187 stores (three stores operated in the Buffalo, New York area [1] ). [2] In 1978, they purchased the bankrupt Mammoth Mart chain. [2]
Food Fair, also known by its successor name Pantry Pride, was a large supermarket chain in the United States. It was founded by Samuel N. Friedland, and his brother George I. Friedland who opened the first store (as Reading Giant Quality Price Cutter) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in the late 1920s. As of 1957, Food Fair had 275 stores, and at ...
60. The Shops at Willow Lawn is a shopping center located slightly outside the city limits of Richmond, Virginia in unincorporated Henrico County. It is the first shopping center in the Richmond area. [1] Currently, the center is entirely a strip mall now, the remaining enclosed portion having been demolished and rebuilt.
Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., is an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s. [2] [3] After multiple purchases and a successful run on ...