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Jewelry, gifts, home decor products, sporting goods, electronics, toys. Service Merchandise was a retail chain of catalog showrooms carrying jewelry, toys, sporting goods and electronics. The company, which first began in 1934 as a five-and-dime store, was in existence for 68 years before ceasing operations in 2002.
Ellman's – acquired by Service Merchandise in 1985; H. J. Wilson Co. – Southern states, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; acquired by Service Merchandise in 1986; K's Merchandise Mart – liquidated in 2006; Luria's – originally L. Luria & Son, was a chain of catalog showroom stores in Florida, from 1961 to 1997.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Consumers Distributing. Consumers Distributing (known in Quebec as Distribution aux Consommateurs, and informally as Consumers) was a catalogue store in Canada and the United States that operated from 1957 to 1996. At its peak, the company operated 243 outlets in Canada and 217 in the United States, including stores in every province in Canada ...
Independent department stores. Boyds ( Philadelphia) David M. Brian ( Walnut Creek and Danville, California) owned by McCaulou's. Dunham's Department Store ( Wellsboro, Pennsylvania) Flemington Department Store ( Flemington, New Jersey) Fords Federated Store ( Hamilton, Montana) Getz's ( Marquette, Michigan)
Sears, Roebuck and Co. (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [5] commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [6]
Sawgrass Mills is a shopping mall in Sunrise, Florida, owned by Simon Property Group. With 2,370,610 square feet (220,237 m 2) of retail selling space, [1] it is the eleventh largest mall in the United States, the largest single story outlet mall in the U.S., the largest shopping mall in Broward County, the second largest mall in Florida and ...
Demise of Service Merchandise. Having been an employee of Service Merchandise from 1987-1995, the demise of Service Merchandise was severalfold, and in my opinion, not due to pressure by other retailers such as Best Buy or Wal Mart. In approximately 1993, there was shift in management from Raymond Zimmerman to another (I forget his name) who ...