Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount...
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Mississauga, Ontario, it was founded on March 17, 1994, with the purchase of the Woolco Canada chain from the F. W. Woolworth Company. Originally consisting of...
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Bargain! Shop. Woolco and Woolworth survived in Canada until 1994, when the company sold the majority of the Woolco stores to Wal-Mart. The Woolco stores that...
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Indigo, The Rec Room, and Food District (Western Expansion). Woolco (1973–1994) - Woolco was acquired by Walmart, which replaces it. Zellers (Store 279)...
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Stores, Kuhn's-Big K (sold to Walmart in 1981), TG&Y[citation needed] and Woolco (closed in 1983, part sold to Wal-Mart) among others. Walmart, Kmart, and...
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Walmart, Kmart, Target (the discount brand of Dayton department store), and Woolco (the discount brand of the Woolworth department store) all opened. These...
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F. W. Woolworth Company Champs Sports Eastbay Foot Locker Kinney Shoes Woolco Claire's Afterthoughts Other divisions and namesakes Buildings List of Woolworth...
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States. In the 1990s, Thicke was the spokesman for the Canadian division of Woolco department stores until its demise in 1994. In 2007, Thicke appeared in...
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Mall opened two years before. Original tenants included Penneys, Woolco and Harveys. Woolco closed in 1983, although Burlington Coat Factory would open in...
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Walmart has operated in Canada since it acquired 122 stores comprising the Woolco division of Woolworth Canada, Inc on January 14, 1994. As of October 31...
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600 Sam's Clubs PACE Membership Warehouse (converted 91 to Sam's Club ) Woolco Canada (converted to Walmart) Asda (acquired in 1999, later sold to EG Group...
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former parent company, The F.W. Woolworth Company opened their first British Woolco store in Oadby, Leicestershire in 1967. The store was 63,000 square feet...
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the United States Ames, Bradlees, Caldor, Service Merchandise, Venture, Woolco, and Zayre were national discount stores that closed due to changes in shopping...
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The Hampshire Centre. The store was eventually purchased by Sainsburys. Woolco 1966 Discontinued, rebranded as Woolworth and later bought by Gateway in...
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vacant J.M. Fields building to the F.W. Woolworth Company which opened a Woolco Department Store in the building. The Pantry Pride store was leased to a...
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were only in the New England area. Caldor, Service Merchandise, Venture, Woolco, and Zayre were national discount stores that closed due to changes in shopping...
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the mall. The mall opened in 1968, featuring Woolco and Rogers as its original anchor stores. After Woolco closed in 1983, its space was sold to Walmart...
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regional drugstore chain, a PLCB liquor store (in Pennsylvania), a Kmart, or Woolco (earlier centers had a Woolworth), and in rarer cases a department store...
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the large out-of-town store or hypermarket format in the 1960s with the Woolco stores. While some of these stores were closed, the majority were sold to...
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opened in 1973 with Woolco, Eaton's, and Robinson's as its anchors. One of the mall's busiest anchor stores, Walmart (formerly Woolco), had announced it...
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at the south end and a Zehrs supermarket at the north. A new wing with Woolco was added on the east in the early 1970s along with 20 stores, and Simpsons...
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store in 1974. For a while there was a chain of discount stores called Woolco. By 1997, the original chain he founded had been reduced to 400 stores,...
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1990s, a stand-alone Sobeys store was opened next to Woolco. In March 1994 Walmart bought 122 Woolco stores from Woolworth Canada in which the Mayflower...
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1972) and a corridor of 35 smaller stores. In 1980, the mall expanded with Woolco department store and a food court. It expanded again in 1992 with Eatons...
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trees. Over the years, stores that came and went included J.J. Newberry, Woolco, Ohrbach's, Barker Bros., Lucky Stores, Market Basket, the La Mirada Theatre...
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Walmart acquired 91 PACE Membership Warehouse clubs from Kmart and 122 Woolco stores in Canada in 1994. In addition, it opened 3 value clubs in Hong Kong...
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income. The Broadway-Park Place Corporation agreed to sell the building to Woolco Realty Co., a subsidiary of the F. W. Woolworth Company, in January 1924...
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Woodward's Woolworth Canada — Canadian unit of the F. W. Woolworth Company Woolco Canada — Canadian unit of US-based department store chain Best Buy Canada...
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Chest (12,830 sq ft or 1,191.9 m2) Sears, now a TD Canada Trust branch. Woolco, now a Walmart. Dominion, rebuilt as a Toys "R" Us. Consumers Distributing...
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Walmart. This was in marked contrast to the takeover of Woolco by Walmart in 1994, where all Woolco employees of the acquired stores were retained. The President...
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