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Gemco was an American chain of membership department stores that was owned by San Leandro-based Lucky Stores, a California supermarket company which eventually became part of Albertsons. Gemco operated from 1959 until closing in late 1986.
Gemco – acquired by Lucky Stores in 1961; [192] closed in 1986 and the vacant buildings sold to Target; [193] known as Memco in the Chicago and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas Pace Membership Warehouse – founded in Denver in 1983 and quickly expanded to the East Coast; [ 194 ] [ 195 ] acquired by Kmart in 1989; [ 196 ] [ 197 ] later ...
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 ...
Canadian pharmacist Murray Koffler was an investor in the G.E.M. chain, bringing the first G.E.M. store to Toronto in 1959. He eventually subleased the G.E.M. drug department in several Toronto area stores.
In 1992, Lucky Stores began selling fresh cut flowers in-store through a joint venture with distributors from Mexico. [42] Between 1993 and 1995, Lucky was the subject of an investigation by the city of Los Angeles that showed 67 of the chain's 82 LA stores had price discrepancies between the chain's posted prices and the prices rung up at ...
Gemco, 1959–1986, owned by Lucky Stores; HomeClub, a home improvement warehouse, later became HomeBase and then folded in 2000; Max-Club, owned by SuperValu (United States) PACE Membership Warehouse, owned by Kmart, merged with Sam's Club; Price Club, merged with Costco in 1993
Unimart was a discount retailer in the Greater Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas in the 1960s. Its locations variously became Two Guys, Gemco, and FedMart.Unimart was owned by Food Giant Inc. until it merged in 1967 with Vornado, the owner of Two Guys, which quickly converted Unimart stores to Two Guys.
Gemco – division of Lucky Stores; Harts Stores / Big Bear Plus – division of Big Bear Stores; Hypermart USA – division of Wal-Mart; Kmart Super Center – last location closed in April 2018 in Warren, Ohio