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Herbert R. Gibson and his wife, Belva, opened Gibson Products Co., a wholesale novelty company, in 1936 in Abilene, Texas. [1] By the late 1950s, Gibson had decided to refocus on discounting, and he opened the first Gibson's Discount Center in Abilene in 1960. [2] The company grew mostly by franchising the store concept to others.
The first Globe Discount City opened in Houston in November 1960 by United Mercantile Inc. United had formed earlier in 1960 to operate the existing seven-store chain of Danburg's Department Stores which had existed since the 1930s and the forthcoming big-box Globe retail locations – the first three of which were each built with over 100,000 square feet of space. [2]
In 2010 a 50,000 square foot facility was built to replace one destroyed by fire, and in Kansas City the long-awaited 565,000 square foot office and warehouse complex was ready for occupancy in 2015. In the late 1980s AWG members bought 40 Food Barn stores and 29 Homeland stores, and the former Homeland warehouse in Oklahoma City became AWG's ...
In November 1988, Eagle applied for a building permit to allow a $1.2 million, 23,800-square-foot (2,210 m 2) expansion of the Milan warehouse, and also announced a $1 million expansion of the Geneseo store, expanding the building from 19,000 to 30,000 square feet (2,800 m 2). In August 1989, Eagle became a publicly owned corporation.
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Duckwall's variety store photographed in Brush, Colorado, in 1991. In its early years the company operated five and dime (or "variety") stores called Duckwall's. Duckwall's began their foray into the discount retail business with the opening of the first ALCO store in Clovis, New Mexico, on August 15, 1966. ALCO stores (somewhat smaller than a ...
In 1978, Venture Stores purchased 23 Turn Style locations in the Chicago area from Jewel food stores, and expanded to over 40 locations in the Chicago market area, with many city locations. [2] It was the largest discount chain in Chicago with inner-city locations other than Zayre / Ames .