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Ben Franklin is a chain of five and dime and arts and crafts stores found primarily in small towns throughout the United States, last owned by Promotions Unlimited of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. [1] They are organized using a franchise system, with individual stores owned by independent proprietors.
In the early 1930s, they developed the Ben Franklin Stores, franchised five and dime stores, and Federated Stores, which were franchised dry goods stores (many termed department stores) that operated under their own local names. Most were in small towns. By 1936, there were 2,600 Ben Franklin stores and 1,400 Federated stores.
At its peak, there were some 2,500 Ben Franklins nationwide, but by the time Ben Franklin Stores declared bankruptcy 1996, only about 860 were left. Today, a handful still exist. Today, a handful ...
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 ...
The Abby Z flagship store opened in SoHo, New York at 57 Greene Street in 2008 and closed in 2009 [46] when its parent company filed for bankruptcy. [47] Anchor Blue – youth-oriented mall chain, founded in 1972 as Miller's Outpost. The brand had 150 stores at its peak, predominantly on the West Coast.
Nov. 27—Many longtime Santa Fe residents might say the Five & Dime General Store on the Plaza is one of the last downtown businesses that hearkens back to the old days, when you could wander ...
It acquired United Stores, which owned a significant share of McCrory Stores and McLellan Stores, in 1959, but sold this in 1960 to B.T.L Corporation (which also owned Ben Franklin Stores). In 1961 McCrory Stores merged with H. L. Green, the combined company taking the McCrory name. The same week this was announced, McCrory took over Lerner ...
An art gallery in Seattle's International District preserves the façade and some features of Higo Variety Store, an independent Japanese-American five and ten. A variety store (also five and dime (historic), pound shop, or dollar store) is a retail store that sells general merchandise, such as apparel, auto parts, dry goods, toys, hardware ...