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Big Lots Stores, Inc. (stylized as Big Lots!) is an American discount retail chain, specializing in the sale of closeout and overstock merchandise. Founded in 1967 as Consolidated Stores, the chain is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, and includes over 900 locations across the United States.
Marc's Stores is a discount drugstore-and-grocery chain, with stores in northern and central Ohio. [1] It is owned by Clevelander Marc Glassman. Marc's has over 60 stores in the Cleveland , Akron , Canton , Youngstown , and Columbus areas.
Al's Auto Supply – Chain that operated in Washington, California, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Alaska; purchased by CSK Auto.Founded by Abe "Al" Wexler in Everett, Washington in the late 1950s; [1] [2] sold 15 store chain to Paccar in 1987; [3] Paccar sold chain (along with Grand Auto) in 1999 to CSK Auto which eventually rebranded stores as Schucks.
Potato chips for sale at a UDF store in Columbus, Ohio. United Dairy Farmers (UDF) is an American chain of shops offering dairy products as well as coffee and gasoline. UDF was started by Carl Lindner Sr. and his children in 1938. Almost as soon as they started operations, the Lindners began work on building a dairy store.
Big Bear Stores was an American regional supermarket chain operating in the U.S. states of Ohio and West Virginia between 1933 and 2004. The company was founded in Columbus, Ohio , and was headquartered there until its acquisition by Syracuse, New York –based Penn Traffic in 1989.
Lazarus developed or was an early adopter of many shopping innovations such as "one low price" (no bargaining necessary, earlier implemented by the John Wanamaker Store [3]), first department store escalators in the country, first air-conditioned store in the country, and Fred Lazarus Jr. successfully lobbied President Franklin Roosevelt to ...
The chain closed several stores around Flint, Michigan, in 1981, which were converted by local businessman Al Kessel to a new chain called Kessel Food Markets. [44] Kroger bought most of these stores back in 1999 and began reverting them. [45] Several other Michigan stores were sold to another Flint-based chain, Hamady Brothers, in 1980. [46]
Ontario Discount Department Store was a chain of discount department stores, which operated primarily in Ohio from the late 1950s into the 1980s. Ontario's parent company, Cook United, discontinued the use of the Ontario brand when it bought the Rink's Bargain Barn chain in 1981. The remaining Ontario stores were rebranded as Rink's or Cooks ...