• The Boston Store is a digitally native retailer. It was established in 1897 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a department store. Throughout the 1920s, and 1930s...
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    (Younkers, Herberger's, Carson Pirie Scott, Bergner's, Boston Store), and its Southern Department Store Group (Proffitt's and McRae's) — plus more than 50...
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    Dallas, Texas (which were merged to form Sanger-Harris); Boston Store of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; MainStreet of Chicago, Illinois; Bullock's, of Los Angeles;...
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    operations to the Gimbel Brothers Department Store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It became a chain when it opened a second, larger store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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    H. C. Prange Co. (category Defunct department stores based in Wisconsin)
    American department store chain begun by H. C. Prange in 1887 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. At its peak, it operated stores in the states of Wisconsin, Illinois...
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    Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Saks sold Younkers and its other Northern Department Store Group stores (Carson Pirie Scott, Bergner's, Boston Store, and Herberger's)...
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    an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It has been a sister brand to the Bloomingdale's department store chain since...
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  • The Bon-Ton (category Defunct department store groups)
    operating as Bonton was an American department store chain and group founded in 1898. The former York, Pennsylvania-based company BonTon filed for bankruptcy...
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  • eventually sold to May Department Stores and finally became Macy's. The Bon-Ton and its subsidiaries: Bergner's, Boston Store (Wisconsin), Carson's, Elder-Beerman...
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    Desmond's was a Los Angeles–based department store, during its existence second only to Harris & Frank as the oldest Los Angeles retail chain, founded...
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  • and Boston Store chains, along with Younkers and Herberger's nameplates, eventually operated as Saks' Northern Department Store Group (NDSG), based in...
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  • she worked at the Boston Store (Wisconsin-based department store) and Gimbels before gaining a position in the advertisement department at Schuster's. She...
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  • Bergner's (category Defunct department stores based in Illinois)
    Illinois, in 1978. In 1985, Bergner's acquired Boston Store and all of its department stores in Wisconsin along with three Gimbel's locations. In 1989,...
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    [failed verification] In 1883, Elder-Beerman history began when the Boston Dry Goods Store was opened on East Third Street in downtown Dayton, Ohio by Thomas...
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    A liquor store is a retail business that predominantly sells prepackaged alcoholic beverages, including liquors (typically in bottles), wine or beer,...
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  • the 1980s. It went bankrupt in 1995. Mervyn's – a California-based regional department store founded in 1949. Mervyn's ill-fated expansion out of West Coast...
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  • Saks, Inc. (category Companies based in New York City)
    McRae's, Younkers, Parisian, Herberger's, Carson Pirie Scott, the Wisconsin-based Boston Store chain, and Bergner's chains, as well as additional stores from...
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  • Nebraska; Boston, Massachusetts; Merrillville, Indiana; Michigan, and Racine, Wisconsin. Turn Style was a Brighton, Massachusetts-based discount department store...
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    management style. The company acquired the Portland, Oregon–based Lipman's department store company during the 1950s and operated it as a separate division...
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    J.L. Hudson Company in 1969 and formerly held ownership of several department store chains including Dayton's, Hudson's, Marshall Field's, and Mervyn's...
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  • Von Maur (category Department stores of the United States)
    Von Maur, Inc. /ˌvɒn ˈmɑːr/ is an American department store chain based in Davenport, Iowa. Founded in 1872, the chain operates over 36 locations across...
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  • Gordmans (redirect from 1/2 Price Store)
    North Carolina, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, test store in South Omaha at 25th and L Streets named the ½ Price Store. The concept was to sell...
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    Mayfair Mall (category Shopping malls in Wisconsin)
    Barrel, The Container Store, Barnes & Noble, Nordstrom and AMC Theatres. There is one vacant anchor store that was once Boston Store. Mayfair Mall opened...
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    had 35 department stores in Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1955, Cal Turner developed his idea of a retail store selling goods for a dollar, based on the...
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    Bloomingdale's (category Department stores of the United States)
    American luxury department store chain founded in 1861 by Joseph Bloomingdale and Lyman Bloomingdale. It was acquired by Federated Department Stores in 1930...
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    Uptown Janesville (category Buildings and structures in Janesville, Wisconsin)
    strip mall featuring Welles, a Midwestern discount department store chain. Flying over southern Wisconsin, he identified acres of open land in the Town of...
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    Jewel-Osco (category Companies based in Chicago)
    chains, Chicago-based Osco Drug stores, and Brighton, Massachusetts-based Turn Style discount department stores, to complement their food store division when...
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  • Tiedtke's (category Defunct department stores based in Toledo, Ohio)
    Tiedtke's was a former grocery and department store chain based in Toledo, Ohio. At its peak, the store, which began life as a grocery, occupied a huge...
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    (Paramus, N.J.) which closed as the Short Hills, N.J., store was being built. There were Boston-area stores in Chestnut Hill and the Prudential Center...
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    Massachusetts Boston, developed a parallel, shared-nothing column-oriented DBMS for data warehousing. By dividing and storing data in columns, C-Store is able...
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