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"Store Wars: The Enactment and Repeal of Anti-Chain-Store Legislation in America." American Journal of Sociology 110#2 (2004): 446–487. Lebhar, Godfrey Montague, and W. C. Shaw. Chain stores in America, 1859-1962 (Chain Store Publishing Corporation, 1963). Levinson, Marc. "The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America" (2019).
Stanchions and velvet rope. A stanchion (/ ˈ s t æ n tʃ ən /) is a sturdy upright fixture that provides support for some other object. [1] It can be a permanent fixture. In nautical terms, the stanchion. is the thick and high iron that with others equal or similar is placed vertically on the gunwale, stern and tops.
Oshman died in 1965. By that year Oshman's was Texas's largest sporting goods chain, [3] and it was the largest sporting goods chain in the southwestern United States. At that time the company had ten sporting goods stores and two wholesale firms located in the Gulf Coast region. [4] In the 1970s, Oshman's was expanding in the Los Angeles area. [5]
Fast casual restaurants are primarily chain restaurants, such as Chipotle Mexican Grill and Panera Bread. [3] More of the food is prepared at the restaurant than is the case at fast food chains. Fast casual restaurants usually do not offer full table service, but many offer non-disposable plates and cutlery.
The store chain itself had a hard time competing against big box retailers that were rapidly expanding into the area like Walmart and Target, and also with the advent of online shopping and the rise of household Internet use, Weiner's also suffered as they were slow to adopt online retail. [4] In October 2000 the company declared bankruptcy ...
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The continued success of Specialty Retailers allowed them to purchase the Fashion Bar/Stage chain of 76 stores in 1992. In 1994 the name of the company was changed to Stage Stores . The stores were bought by Wellan's of Alexandria, Louisiana in 1985.
In 1992, Houston restaurateur Ghulam Bombaywala acquired one million shares, or 5%, of National Convenience Stores. [7] In 1995, there were 660 Stop N Go stores, with all of them in Texas, including 396 Stop N Go stores in Houston, making it the largest convenience store chain in the city. At that time, 250 people worked in the company ...