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Service Merchandise's history can be traced to 1934, to a small five-and-dime store founded by Harry and Mary Zimmerman in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee.After leaving the wholesale business, they opened Service Merchandise, Inc., the first of what evolved into a chain of catalog showrooms.
Ellman's – acquired by Service Merchandise in 1985 [39] [40] H. J. Wilson Co. – Southern states, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; acquired by Service Merchandise in 1986 [39] [40] K's Merchandise Mart – liquidated in 2006; Luria's – originally L. Luria & Son, was a chain of catalog showroom stores in Florida, from 1961 to 1997.
The chain operated over 2,000 stores worldwide. Stores included lunch counters and fountain service as well as full department stores. It also operated Jupiter stores which were a smaller-scale version of Kresge's and located in downmarket or declining commercial districts (the equivalent of a "dollar store" division of Kresge's). Jupiter ...
171–191 South High Street is a pair of historic buildings in Downtown Columbus, Ohio.The commercial structures have seen a wide variety of retail and service uses through the 20th century, including shoe stores, groceries, opticians, hatters, jewelers, a liquor store, and a car dealership.
A&P. Perhaps one of the best-known defunct grocery store chains, A&P, or the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, traces its roots back to 1859, beginning as a mail-order tea business in New York ...
Value City Department Stores was an American department store chain with 113 locations. It was founded in 1917 by Ephraim Schottenstein, a travelling salesman in central Ohio . The store was an off-price retailer that sold clothing, jewelry, and home goods below the manufacturer suggested retail price .
Kohl’s is slated to close more than two dozen store locations across the United States. On Jan. 9, the retailer announced a series of “real estate changes” for the new year, including the ...
A Sears auto center and appliance store, Harvest House Cafeteria, Merle Norman Cosmetics, and Andre Duval beauty salon opened in late 1968 before the rest of the mall. From 1977 to 1980 it served as the studio for the groundbreaking teenage variety show, America Goes Bananaz on Columbus' experimental cable service QUBE .