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James Read founded the company on June 11, 1946, in San Francisco, California. [3] [4] [6] He bought government surplus food products and sold them in previously vacant stores throughout San Francisco. [3] [6] [13] He named his new company Cannery Sales. [6] [13] In 1970, Cannery Sales acquired Globe of California and renamed it Canned Foods.
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.
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 ...
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.
Cleveland metropolitan area, Euclid, Ohio, E. 222nd at Lake Shore Blvd. opened in April, 1951, originally a Scott-Burr store. [15] [16] Cincinnati, 616–628 Race Street, opened October 1, 1951. The store consisted of four sales levels and employed a staff of 200. [17] Butler Bros. covered the Victorian storefront in a sleek, then-modern brick ...
Discount Drug Mart expanded across Ohio through the 1990s. In August 2015, MetroHealth partnered with Discount Drug Mart and opened its first primary care clinic in a Discount Drug Mart location. [1] In January 2020, the company announced the expansion of its partnership with the MetroHealth System, adding more clinics to its stores across Ohio ...
Lehman's is a retail store located in Kidron, Ohio. Originally specializing in products used by the Amish community, it has become known worldwide as a source for non-electric goods. The 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m 2 ) facility bills itself as a "Low Tech Superstore" and a "Purveyor of Historical Technology", both of which are reflected in ...
Phar-Mor (stylized as PHA℞-MOR) was a United States chain of discount drug stores, based in Youngstown, Ohio, and founded by Michael "Mickey" Monus and David Shapira in 1982. Some of its stores used the names Pharmhouse and Rx Place (purchased in the mid-1990s from the F.W. Woolworth Company). Low prices were advertised to bring in a large ...