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Downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan had as many as 15 stores that sold dry goods. [5] Dry Goods Store materials. Dry goods can be carried by stores specializing only in those products (a type of specialty store), or may be carried by a general store or a department store. [6] ‘Dry goods’ is the collective name of textile fabrics and manufactured ...
After moving to her sister's home in Shelbyville, Illinois, she married William Cochran (later Cochrane) on October 13, 1858. William had returned the year before from a disappointing try at the California Gold Rush but had gone on to become a prosperous dry goods merchant and Democratic Party politician.
Barie Dry Goods [200] [201] Barthwell Drugs, Detroit. Sidney Barthwell founded the company in 1933. "Barthwell Drugs grew to become the largest chain of black-owned drugstores in the United States, with nine stores and three ice-cream parlors. The Sidney Barthwell Endowed Scholarship at Wayne State University College of Pharmacy. [202]
Its stores were earning over $1 billion (~$2.41 billion in 2023) in sales by the time Carl Bennett retired in 1985, by which time Caldor was a subsidiary of Associated Dry Goods. [3] Despite its successes, Caldor suffered from financial issues by the 1990s. The company was liquidated and all 145 stores were closed by May 1999.
Associated Dry Goods Corporation (ADG) was a chain of department stores that merged with May Department Stores in 1986. It was founded in 1916 as an association of independent stores called American Dry Goods , based in New York City .
Interstate Department Stores, Inc., was an American holding company for a chain of small department stores, founded in Delaware in 1928. [1] After a very rapid expansion as the result of acquisition and expansion of two discount store chains acquired in 1959 [2] and 1960 [3] and also two toy store chains acquired in 1967 and 1969, the firm was renamed in 1970 as Interstate Stores, Inc., to ...
Dayton's has roots in R.S. Goodfellow & Company, a dry goods business founded as Goodfellow and Eastman in 1878. [5] George Draper Dayton constructed a six-story building at Nicollet Avenue and Seventh Street in 1902 and convinced Goodfellow's, then the fourth-largest department store in Minneapolis, [6] to become the tenant.
1936 Bon Voyage Banquet for Mr & Mrs Joe Shoong & family. As a strategy for keeping prices low, Shoong had most of the stores’ merchandise manufactured in a company-owned factory in San Francisco's Chinatown rather than importing goods from outside of the U.S. [8] In an interview for the Oakland Tribune in 1924, Shoong explained, “From manufacturer direct to the consumer, is the plan ...