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Zellers operated stores from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, to Victoria, British Columbia and employed over 35,000 people. The average store size was 94,000 square feet (8,700 m 2). Zellers Select stores were designed for smaller markets with populations under 25,000, with stores averaged 45,000 square feet (4,200 m 2).
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.
Zayre was one of only a few stores to remain open 24 hours a day during the weeks preceding Christmas each year. By the end of the 1960s, Zayre Corp. diversified into specialty retailing. Among Zayre's early acquisitions was the Hit or Miss chain, an off-price chain specializing in upscale women's clothing.
It was sold to TerraMar Capital LLC in January 2021 and exited from bankruptcy. [135] Fred's, a variety store and pharmacy chain based in the southeastern United States, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 9, 2019, and announced that all of its remaining stores would be liquidated. At the time of Fred's bankruptcy filing, 80 stores ...
The brown felt fedora worn by actor Harrison Ford in the second installment of the Indiana Jones movies sold for $630,000 at auction, film and TV memorabilia company Propstore announced Friday ...
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.
Auction sales during Monterey Car Week fell 3% from last year, as a shift from older to newer cars left a pileup of unsold classics from the 1950s and 1960s. Classic car sales stall in Monterey ...
He is a past president of the Indiana Auctioneer's Association, and was elected as a member of their hall of fame, [5] along with his father Russell and brother Dennis Kruse. Dean was responsible for negotiating the purchase of his auction company in 1999 by online auctioneer eBay which paid $275 million for Kruse International and Billpoint. [6]