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G.E.M. G. E. M. Membership Department Stores was a chain of discount stores, in the US and Canada. Their first location opened in Denver in 1956. GEM offered something different: membership. The qualifications included government-, religious- and school employees, members of the armed forces, and employees of companies that did “substantial ...
FedMart was a chain of discount department stores started by Sol Price, who later founded Price Club. Originally a discount department store open to government employees paying a $2 per family membership fee, FedMart earned four times more than its investors had projected in its first year. Over the next 20 years, FedMart grew to include 45 ...
It was founded by 800 U.S. Post Office employees who wanted to leverage their buying power by purchasing goods directly from wholesalers, and eliminate the additional markup of a retail store. The Board of Directors, headed by Robert Kee, established the first store on Slauson Avenue in Los Angeles. Members would come into the store and find ...
June 24, 2024 at 11:48 AM. Photo by Chris Trainor. A popular discount store brand is headed to Cayce. Five Below, which has stores across the U.S., will open a spot in the Parkland Plaza shopping ...
Gibson's Discount Center. Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, market, housewares, pharmacy. Gibson's Discount Center, also known as Gibson's, was a large discount store chain in the United States. There are a few Gibson's Discount Centers still operating under independent ownership; two in Texas in ...
Babbage's (1980–1994) GameStop traces its roots to Babbage's, a Dallas, Texas-based software retailer founded on August 20, 1980 by former Harvard Business School classmates James McCurry and Gary M. Kusin. [4] The company was named after Charles Babbage [5] and opened its first store in Dallas's NorthPark Center with the help of Ross Perot ...
Federal's Detroit, discount department store, closed in 1980. Numerous locations elsewhere across the state as well. Steven West acquired the company, and stores had an unfortunate tendency to burn down. Felder's Department Store Trenton; L.H. Field's Department Store, Jackson, Muskegon 122 years, clsing in 1987.
Ross Stores, Inc., operating under the brand name Ross Dress for Less, is an American chain of discount department stores headquartered in Dublin, California. It is the largest off-price retailer in the U.S.; as of 2023, Ross operates 1,765 stores in 45 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Guam, covering much of the country, but with no presence in New England, Alaska, and areas of the ...