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99 Cents Only Stores allowed returns of up to nine items within nine days of purchase and were typically open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., although individual stores could open at 8 a.m. or close at 10 p.m. The store mottos included: "Do the 99", "Low prices are born here, and raised elsewhere", featuring a picture of a baby chick. [26]
The A. I. Namm & Son store was founded in 1876 by the Polish immigrant Adolph I. Namm in Manhattan's Ladies Mile district. Namm moved to Brooklyn in 1885, and the store moved to the intersection of Fulton and Hoyt streets in 1890. The store expanded several times over the next three decades, covering nearly the entire city block. By the 1920s ...
Mi Tienda – Hispanic supermarket division of HEB Stores (two stores in Houston, Texas) La Michoacana Meat Market (Texas) Nam Dae Mun Farmers Market (Georgia) Numero Uno Market – Hispanic chain (Los Angeles area) - Now merged with Superior; La Perla Tapatía Supermarkets – (California) La Placita – Hispanic chain in New Orleans area
A $500,000 (~$7.05 million in 2023) expansion of the store occurred in 1924, adding 70,000 square feet (6,500 m 2) to the original location. In 1932, the store expanded northward with the purchase of the Hudson's store at 410 Main Street. From the 1940s until its closing, the store was known locally for its elaborate Victorian Christmas windows.
Abraham & Straus, commonly shortened to A&S, was a major New York City department store, based in Brooklyn. [3] Founded in 1865, it became part of Federated Department Stores in 1929. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Shortly after Federated's 1994 acquisition of R.H. Macy & Company , it eliminated the A&S brand. [ 6 ]
The only Bloomingdale's to open in the space of a former A&S store. [32] 1996: open: 28: Century City: Los Angeles: Los Angeles: California: 232,000: L: Opened on November 9 in the space of a former The Broadway store as the first Bloomingdale's location in Southern California. [33] 1996: open: 30: Fashion Island: Newport Beach: Los Angeles ...
Four years later, the store adopted the new self-service supermarket model recently pioneered by Piggly Wiggly. A second store opened later in 1914, several stores opened a year later and by 1917, the chain had 15 stores. Initially the stores sold only grocery items but soon after added meats, produce, milk, dairy, and some frozen foods.
Wawa started to open its own stores to adjust to these market changes. [8] [12] On April 16, 1964, Grahame Wood, George Wood's grandson, opened the first Wawa Food Market at 1212 MacDade Boulevard in Folsom, Pennsylvania, [13] which remained in operation until June 17, 2016, when it closed in favor of a new "Super Wawa" down the street. A ...