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The first "drugstores" in North America "appeared in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia," with likely proto-drugstores—for example Gysbert van Imbroch ran a "general store" that sold drugs from 1663 to 1665 in Wildwyck, New Netherland, today's Kingston, New York—preceding the dedicated apothecary shops of the 1700s ...
In 2015, a New York City-based development group purchased the building with the intention of converting it into a 10 floor, 300-room, Asian-themed hotel and restaurant complex. Branch stores. AM&A's opened the first branch location of a downtown department store in 1948, when it opened a 5,000-square-foot (460 m 2) store at University Plaza.
Hi-School Pharmacy Inc. is a chain of drugstores, hardware stores and combination drugstore/hardware stores based in Vancouver, Washington, USA. History. Edith and Ira Nelson started High School Store in 1925 in downtown Vancouver, Washington, right across the street from Vancouver High School on Main Street. Brothers Ken and Matt Zapp bought ...
The company was founded in 1867 as J. C. Barnes & Co., followed by Barnes & Bancroft in 1869, at 259 Main Street, with James K. Bancroft. [1] In 1873, William Hengerer was admitted as a partner and the company became known as Barnes, Bancroft & Co. [2] Along with other department stores located in Buffalo including AM&A's, Flint and Kent, and ...
Phar-Mor. Phar-Mor (stylized as PHA℞-MOR) was a United States chain of discount drug stores, based in Youngstown, Ohio, and founded by Michael "Mickey" Monus and David Shapira in 1982. Some of its stores used the names Pharmhouse and Rx Place (purchased in the mid-1990s from the F.W. Woolworth Company ). Low prices were advertised to bring in ...
Revco, originally known as Registered Vitamin Company, [2] was founded in 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, by Sidney Dworkin and Bernie Shulman. Dworkin led Revco until 1986 as CEO, and then he served as chairman until 1987. Up to 1983, Revco grew tremendously; the chain had over 2,200 stores and over $2.2 billion (~$5.66 billion in 2023) in sales.
Stern's. Apparel, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, gifts and housewares. Stern's (originally Stern Brothers) was a regional department store chain serving the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The chain was in business for more than 130 years. In 2001, Stern's parent company Federated Department ...
Priceline was established in 1982; the first store opened at Highpoint Shopping Centre, and started as a beauty retailer. In 2004 Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) acquired the New Price Retail business which operated the retail brands of Priceline, Priceline Pharmacy, House, and Price Attack.