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Silo was an early discounter, operating under the name "Silo Discount Centers." Silo regularly opened on Sundays, violating Pennsylvania's strict Blue laws . Cooper claimed that it was necessary to open on Sunday in order to serve working families, and was even arrested at least once for doing so.
The company was founded by Wilfred Schwartz in 1970, and opened the first deep discount consumer electronics "superstore" in the United States. [2] In 1987, Federated Group was the fourth-largest discounter of consumer electronics in the U.S. [3] The company's headquarters were in City of Commerce, California and later in Sunnyvale, California.
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 ...
Virginia Dare Dresses, Incorporated – merged with Atlantic Thrift Centers, Inc in 1963; Warner Brothers Studio Store – Meant to be the WB answer to the rapidly growing Disney Store, the Warner Bros. Studio Stores sold collectibles and apparel based around WB properties including Looney Tunes and DC Comics. The Studio Stores were a victim of ...
Orangefair Marketplace is a community shopping center in Fullerton, California which when built was one of the earliest large shopping centers in Orange County, California. along with Anaheim Plaza and Orange County Plaza. It is located at the southeast corner of Harbor Boulevard (originally Spadra Road) and Orangethorpe Avenue, a mile south of ...
The strip shopping center opened first, with Levitz Furniture and a Silo appliance store opening by the fall of 1969. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Wilmington Dry Goods followed, opening on November 5, 1969. [ 8 ] The Pantry Pride supermarket opened on March 10, 1970. [ 9 ]
Gamble-Skogmo Inc. was an American conglomerate of retail chains and other businesses that was headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.Business operated or franchised by Gamble-Skogmo included Gambles hardware and auto supply stores, Woman's World and Mode O'Day clothing stores, J.M. McDonald department stores, Leath Furniture stores, Tempo and Buckeye Mart Discount Stores, Howard's ...
Gibson's Discount Center, also known as Gibson's, was a large discount store chain in the United States. There are a few Gibson's Discount Centers still operating under independent ownership; two in Texas in Weatherford and Kerrville , and two in Kansas in Salina and Clay Center .