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Barker's final logo. Barker's Discount Department Stores was a chain of discount department stores founded in May 1957 by Felix Mininberg and Irving Barker. As one of the first hard goods discounters, and with creative promotions, the initial store, in Orange, Connecticut, grew quickly with a wide variety of products for the home arranged in a supermarket style.
One of the mall's entrances. The main building has an area of 1,082,708 square feet (100,587 m 2) on two floors.However, the name "Buckland Hills Mall"' can informally refer to the mall plus the cluster of surrounding retail stores, hotels, and restaurants on the hill, totaling nearly 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m 2) or 1/4 square mile.
The store grew to occupy a whole block between Oldham Street, Church Street and Tib Street and become a full flung department store. [2] The business had a good reputation as a credit draper and was known for a good range of cloth for home dressmaking [ 3 ] as well as a furrier.
Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota.Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebranded under its current name with an emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983.
Sep. 19—A Manchester resident is asking the state's Civil Rights Unit and the Hillsborough County Attorney to investigate possible violations of her civil rights by a city alderman after that ...
Dick's is the largest sporting goods retail company in the United States, [5] with over 800 stores as of 2023. [6] [7] The public company is based in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, [8] and is physically located in Findlay Township, Pennsylvania, [9] outside Pittsburgh, and has approximately 53,000 employees as of August 2023. [10]
Bob's Stores was a chain of retail stores in the northeastern United States owned by GoDigital Media Group.Founded as Bob's Surplus in Middletown, Connecticut, by Robert "Bob" Lapidus in 1954, the chain expanded gradually until it was acquired by Melville Corporation and has been reacquired five more times since then.
Manchester was settled in the 17th century, but remained an essentially agricultural community until the 19th century. Its industrial growth was spurred most significantly by the Cheney Brothers silk manufacturing operation, established in 1838 and one of the most successful businesses of its type in the world. Main Street is a north-south ...