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The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store.It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, setting trends and creating the modern retail model that stores follow worldwide today.
Divisions and namesakes of the American F. W. Woolworth Company, and divisions of Woolworths Group (Australia).. Similar namesake companies in South Africa and Australia were legally named after the Woolworth company as permitted by the trademark laws of the period, but never had any financial connection to the original F. W. Woolworth Company.
Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" (5- and 10-cent stores or dime stores) which featured a selection of low-priced merchandise.
F. W. Woolworth Company buildings and structures (19 P) F. Foot Locker (9 P) W. Woolworth family (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "F. W. Woolworth Company"
Now a local-artist art gallery/old-fashioned soda fountain called Woolworth Walk [2] F. W. Woolworth Building (Greensboro, North Carolina) Greensboro, North Carolina: 1929 Site of Greensboro sit-ins: F. W. Woolworth Building (Columbus, Ohio) Columbus, Ohio
F. W. Woolworth Company buildings and structures — Woolworths was a former chain of American 'five & dime' department stores. Pages in category "F. W. Woolworth ...
Topps stores were closed when parent company, Interstate Stores filed for bankruptcy in 1974 [12] Tuesday Morning (Nationwide) Two Guys (Mid-Atlantic) Value City (Nationwide) Venture Stores (National) Based out of St Louis, MO metro area. Woolco, founded by the F.W. Woolworth Company as a full-line discount department store
The British branch of the F. W. Woolworth Company, which had been founded in Pennsylvania, F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd, was founded by Frank Woolworth in Liverpool, England, on 5 November 1909. [18] Frank Woolworth had ancestry in Woolley, Cambridgeshire — Frank claimed he had traced his ancestry through the Founding Fathers of the district to ...