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  2. F. W. Woolworth Company - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of retailers affected by the retail apocalypse - Wikipedia

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    Party City closed 45 of its 870 stores in 2019, up from its usual 10 to 15 closures each year. [234] On January 18, 2023, Party City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, [235] and a month afterward, announced the closure of 22 stores. An additional 9 stores were added to the closing list in April as well as 4 more locations in May. [236]

  4. List of defunct department stores of the United States

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    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 ...

  5. List of Woolworth buildings - Wikipedia

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    A contributing building in the Calumet Historic District within the Keweenaw National Historical Park. Now the Keweenaw Storytelling Center F. W. Woolworth Building (Clarksdale, Mississippi) Clarksdale, Mississippi

  6. Woolworths, Wilko and now WH Smith – why Britain’s high ...

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    Life without Woolworths was unthinkable and yet, in the blink of an eye, it was all too real. A hundred years after the first UK shop opened in Liverpool, all 807 branches closed up for good in ...

  7. Flashback: In 1937, Detroit workers kicked out their ... - AOL

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    A crowd fills the seats during a strike inside of the F. W. Woolworth Co. at 1261 Woodward in Detroit, during a strike on March 2, 1937.

  8. List of Woolworths Group companies - Wikipedia

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    On 24 August 2016, Woolworths announced that all Masters stores would close on or before 11 December 2016. [32] Safeway – In 1985 Woolworths Limited acquired Safeway and used it as the trading name for Woolworths supermarkets in Victoria. In August 2008, Woolworths announced it would be rebranding these stores as Woolworths. As of 2015 ...

  9. Andrew Young: How Atlanta became the 'city too busy to hate'

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    “Now, we were a unique city, because in the '40s and '50s, when all of this was going on, we probably had more Black PhDs in Atlanta than anywhere else in the world,” Young said.