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Below is a list of notable defunct retailers of the United States. Across the United States, a large number of local stores and store chains that started between the 1920s and 1950s have become defunct since the late 1960s, when many chains were either consolidated or liquidated .
Plumb's Drugs, Rexall in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Rexall was a chain of American drugstores, and the name of their store-branded products.The stores, having roots in the federation of United Drug Stores starting in 1903, licensed the Rexall brand name to as many as 12,000 drug stores across the United States from 1920 to 1977.
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 ...
The first "drugstores" in North America "appeared in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia," [11] with likely proto-drugstores—for example Gysbert van Imbroch ran a "general store" that sold drugs from 1663 to 1665 in Wildwyck, New Netherland, [12] today's Kingston, New York—preceding the dedicated apothecary shops of the 1700s, and providing a model.
Gray Drug was an American drugstore chain in Cleveland, Ohio.The chain began in 1912 [2] and grew to 46 stores by 1946 and over 100 by the 1970s. [3] [4] Besides Ohio, stores later opened in Florida and Maryland. [5]
An effort was made by the United States Department of Justice to dissolve the Kinsel merger, citing that it was in violation of the Clayton Antitrust Act. [7] The dissolution was canceled in 1963. [8] An acquisition of Whelan Drug in Florida added fourteen more Cunningham locations to that state in 1964. [9]
Eckerd Corporation was an American pharmacy retail chain that was headquartered in Largo, Florida, [1] and toward the end of its life, in Warwick, Rhode Island. [2] At its peak, Eckerd was the second-largest pharmacy chain in the United States, with approximately 2,802 stores in 23 states as far west as Arizona.