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Big Bear operated a farm north of Columbus (later the site of store #272), as well as the Big Bear Bakery, located near the OSU campus. In 1948, Brown, along with other supermarket operators, founded Topco Associates , and Big Bear distributed their products (i.e. Food Club, Valu Time) as their "house brand", as well as their own private brand ...
Pages in category "Farm and ranch supply stores of the United States" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Bomgaars Supply Inc. (doing business as Bomgaars and stylized as bomgaars) is a retail chain of farm and ranch supply stores headquartered in Sioux City, Iowa.Bomgaars serves the Midwest, High Plains, and Rockies with stores in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Texas.
Family patriarch Simon Lazarus (1808–1877) opened a one-room men's clothing store in downtown Columbus in 1851. By 1870, with improvements to the industry in the mass manufacture of men's uniforms for the Civil War, the family business expanded to include ready-made men's civilian clothing, and eventually, a complete line of merchandise. [2]
Tractor Supply carries between 15,500 and 20,000 products in store, including work and recreational clothing, lawn and garden tools, home goods, fencing, truck beds, chicken coops, pet food, and feed for farm animals. [27] [28] Around 15 percent of in-store products are unique to each store's region. [29]
The first store opened in 1975 with 4,200 square feet of space. [5] Bonaminio continued to expand the store, adding products at customer request and enlarging and re-arranging the store. In 1988, after visiting specialty markets in Chicago, he decided to make the store an international market as well as introduce the jungle theme. Today, Jungle ...
The company also began an online store selling directly to retail customers from its original Nashville location. The strategy was to sell items that were too big or expensive to sell online. [7] [14] After a successful run, Essex launched the Bargain Hunt superstores using locations abandoned by stores such as Staples and Circuit City. The ...
Fleet Farm was founded in 1955 by Stewart Mills Sr. and his sons Henry Mills II and Stewart Mills Jr. The first store, named Fleet Wholesale Supply, was opened in Marshfield, Wisconsin. [2] Similarly named Blain's Farm and Fleet was also founded in 1955 by Bert and Claude Blain, friends of the Mills family. The two families agreed to use ...