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Canned Foods Warehouse opened its first independent store in Redmond, Oregon, in 1973. [4] Following founder James Read's death in 1982, his sons Steven and Peter took over company management. [4] In 1987, the company was renamed Grocery Outlet. [6] [7] Grocery Outlet's 100th store opened in 1995. [13]
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay and a historic place in Maryland.To the east, a narrow channel known as the Kent Narrows barely separates the island from the Delmarva Peninsula, and on the other side, the island is separated from Sandy Point, an area near Annapolis, by roughly four miles (6.4 km) of water.
Ollie's Bargain Outlet Holdings, Inc., commonly referred to as Ollie's Bargain Outlet is an American chain of discount closeout retailers. It was founded in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania , in 1982 by Morton Bernstein and Mark L. Butler with backing from Harry Coverman and Oliver E. "Ollie" Rosenberg; the latter of whom is the namesake of the company.
Bargain Hunt, [4] [5] formerly Essex Bargain Hunt, is an American discount store chain. Founded in 2004, Bargain Hunt is headquartered in La Vergne, Tennessee [ 6 ] with retail locations in Tennessee, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Ohio , [ 9 ] Indiana , Kentucky , [ 10 ] North Carolina , [ 11 ] South Carolina , Georgia , Alabama , Mississippi and Arkansas .
There were 527 John's Bargain Stores in the Northeast and in Puerto Rico at its zenith in the mid-1960s. [2] Between 1961 and 1965 the chain earned $1,000,000 per year or more in profits each year. However, in 1966 they ran a $523,947 (~$3.76 million in 2023) loss.
Ontario Discount Department Store was a chain of discount department stores, which operated primarily in Ohio from the late 1950s into the 1980s. Ontario's parent company, Cook United, discontinued the use of the Ontario brand when it bought the Rink's Bargain Barn chain in 1981. The remaining Ontario stores were rebranded as Rink's or Cooks ...
Home Quarters Warehouse (HQ) was an American chain of "big-box" home improvement stores, originally based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.In 1984, the chemical manufacturing company W.R. Grace & Co. announced its intentions to enter the home improvement retail business, hiring Bernard R. Kossar and Frank Doczi to head the new chain.