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J.W. Mays, Inc. is a real estate firm based in Brooklyn, New York, United States. From 1927 until 1988 the company ran a chain of discount department stores in the area surrounding New York City referred to as Mays, with stores located in three of New York City's five boroughs, Long Island, and Putnam County. At its height as a retailer, the ...
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Pages in category "Defunct department stores based in New York City" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Loehmann's was an American retail company which started as a single store in Brooklyn, New York and grew to a chain of off-price department stores in the United States.The chain was best known for its "Back Room", where women interested in fashion could find designer clothes at prices lower than in department stores.
E. J. Korvette, also known as Korvette’s, was an American chain of discount department stores, founded in 1948 in New York City.It was one of the first department stores to challenge the suggested retail price provisions of anti-discounting statutes. [1]
Empire Stores is a former warehouse complex along the waterfront Brooklyn Bridge Park within the neighborhood of Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York City, in the U.S. state of New York. It hosts a food hall and market operated by Time Out New York, [1] which opened in 2019, [2] as well as an art gallery called Gallery 55. [3]
There were 527 John's Bargain Stores in the Northeast and in Puerto Rico at its zenith in the mid-1960s. [2] Between 1961 and 1965 the chain earned $1,000,000 per year or more in profits each year. However, in 1966 they ran a $523,947 (~$3.76 million in 2023) loss. Shoplifting was a problem, among others. John's had an average 32% markup on its ...
In the 1950s, Dushey opened the Pitkin Bargain Center on Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Dushey opened the first Shoppers World store in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1972. [2] In 2015, CEO Sam Dushey went undercover in Shoppers World stores for an episode of the TV show Undercover Boss. [3]